Novotel Melbourne St Kilda

... at the moment to see the Motorcycle Grand Prix and are going back to NZ on Wednesday for another couple of months before coming back here in Dec for a year or so. Anyway, I met them at the airport on Tuesday and spent about 45 minutes panicking, thinking they had got busted at customs for drugs or something - their flight landed at 5pm and they didn't get through to the arrivals lounge until 5.55. That's a long ass time considering the airport was really quiet and ...

... away-for a drink. Afterwards we strolled along the beach to see people para-boarding. They skimmed along the water on a board pulled by a parachute. It was amazing that they didn't get tangled upwith each other.(Nathan you need to try this.) We had supper at a lovely pizza restaurant and we shared one so that we could visit another of the cake shops for dessert. We found one that had a 50's style red arborite topped table. On Monday March 23 ...

... him onto my shoulder and set off for Heathrow on Monday 9th March, to embark on another world tour, encounter more adventures and excitement, however hopefully together this time. For those new to this Blog, my rucksack and I parted company in Western Australia on my last travels and we spent several days trying to find one another. First stop was Singapore, not originally on the destination list, but due to the wonders of Facebook an old friend ...

... off of the living room, and also the big screen TV, I quite liked crashing there, not to mention it was rent-free. Shael, a Canadian, who rode his bike across a large expanse of China was back from the adventure, and conveniently Georgia, a Brisbane girl who lives in the house, was off to Senegal for a month for her mining job. So about two days ago I moved my stuff into her room, and was even more happy to have my own space again and a very comfortable bed with clean ...

... of a map and ideas. Taking numerous peoples advice we wandered around Federation Square and to the Ian Potter museum, a collection of Australian Art. The aboriginal art was very beautiful and quite different from anything else we have seen though the interpretations often left one most confused. We also looked at the Rennie Ellis photo exhibition. He was a photographer popular from the 60's to the 80s, living a hedonist's life, with a ...

... fuer eine Woche in St.Kilda ein Stadtteil mit Strand, Pinguinen und viel Nachtleben. Zu meiner Arbeit: ich arbeite in Nachtschicht als 'packer' d.h. ich beglebe und verpacke alles moegliche. Es ist also eine sehr einfache Arbeit aber vieleicht auch besser so Arbeitsbegin ist 15.15 und Ende ist um 0.45Uhr. Aber im Hostel bin ich dan erst um 1.45 Uhr. In zwischen bin ich umgezogen und darf jetzt in einem Haus von einer Arbeitskloegin wohnen, da sie mit ihrer ...

... discovered most of the festival is on sunday. so we settled on having a couple drinks. our housemates decided to leave, but some of their friends who met up with us stayed. we ended up having a really good time just getting to know eachother, eating some pizza for dinner and doing a little club hopping. when the friends left, me and kevin headed for the same bar we went to friday night, where a indie rock type of band was playing. sunday kevin and i went to a big ...

... met some amazing people and got a lot outta the job too which was surprising, shame i had to leave really when found a job which was decent after so many hideous jobs but things happen and there were no dramas about leaving, we all just went and got very drunk on the friday and saturday nights!!! Saturday was out last day in st kilda so we did all the rest of the things we wanted to do before leave, like go th\o the Cake shop for one last time, walk down acland street ...

... i headed to a irish pub to watch the game, it was a no alcohol day so we stuck to cokecola! and then the boys lost 3-1, PANTS. sunday we finnally made headway, at 10am we hit the road, via Bob's house, a friend of toms he used to live with last time he was here, dropped some things off, picked up sleeping bags and rugs, had a brew and some toast and off we went. straight to Bells Beach, where there was a surf comp on, the mens final! so a little time there some ...

... then off to her private party for the countdown - very showbiz! After her boyfriend, I was the 2nd person she kissed at 12! How happy was I! · Got wet, 'Glastonbury style' at an all day outside party on New Years Day. Saw Fat boy Slim as well as other big name DJ's! Laughed at all the glamorous girls looking like drowned rats after the downpour! · Decided to carry on the party after the 'Rave' back at ours. Wasn ...