Hume Villa Motor Inn Melbourne

The girls are off to visit dear friend Becky and do a little Christmas shopping on the side in Singapore. Maybe no cheaper but undoubtedly different.

Plans are also to explore the Botanic and Orchid Gardens, Little India, maybe a walking tour or two, a shopping plaza or three and generally have fun times with Wayne and Becky who live alongside Newton's Circus and around the corner from Orchard Road.

And what a (relative) joy to fly Qantas ...

... for one night in Kolkata when we arrive at Broadway Hotel
Booked 3 nights in Pattaya on the way home
One night in Bangkok near the airport on the way
2 overnight train trips (1st class of course) from Kolkatta to Varanasi and from New Jaipalgiri to Kolkata at the end of the trip

... Melbourne cup week). People in there best best outfits waiting at bus stops with tinnies or catching the train/ cab. Apparently later it gets very messy, carnage everywhere, as people return several hours of drinking later.
So later on Saturday morning we were getting our stuff together to have lunch with some friends round their place in Williamstown a few miles from us.
(I had met them at a park, while Jake was playing, over a month ...

... which is why I don't stop looking for one I guess but at least I have it for sure and I can start earning money on Monday. It is, as most jobs available for backpackers in the cities, a sales job – I will go from door to door and try to sell people better plans for their home phone and broadband. It actually does sound like quite a good deal to be honest.. I am very curious to know how I will be doing. Obviously it is commission based and if you are good you can earn quite some ...

... a couple of days to relax here in Melbourne, which does sound very tempting.

Also, I will try to upload some more pictures of things I saw on the road coming from the west along the south coast. Some great cliffs..

Hope you are doing great. Keep in touch, I love your emails, as it can get lonely out here sometimes. But not in Melbourne I guess.

Cheers!
Sywert

... pays riches peut paraître écoeurant. D'autant plus que je cotoyais un environnement extrême, peuplé de voyageurs
en quête de soirées et de partenaires sexuels...
J'étais assez désorientée: pourquoi se rendre à l'autre bout du monde pour vivre ce genre d'expériences que l'on peut apprécier de la même manière chez nous...
Enfin, j'ai appris à respecter ce point de vue. Nous partons tous en quête de quelque chose, après chacun suit son chemin.
Et ces jeunes ...

... made out of cutlery - as in bracelets and rings made out of forks etc. Nat got a ring made of a whole silver teaspoon that has been curled round in a ring shape, which is seriously cool. After tearing ourselves away from all the crafts we continued into town and went for a bit of a shop as most of the shops were closed the day before. We bought a fair amount of chocolate (it was easter after all), but we also bought a copy of Anchorman on DVD ...

... richards marc lamont hill annette yeomans guitar brands uvm basketball ...

... Or not. The lifts were a little rickety, but always seemed to work! Had a stroll around and found myself in the 'Miss Libertine' bar where there was a sort of pre-booked open mike night out back. 90% of those taking part were Asians apart from 1 English guy at the end. All good though and mainly all original. Friday 16th January Melbourne to Torquay Picked up my car - a shiny red Holden Astra convertible and drove out of Melbourne through Geelong towards Torquay.. (of all places ...

... It was actually pretty nice to get to the airport way early and not be super stressed about just barely having enough time to check in and run to the plane before thy closed the gates though.  I wasn't in a rush, so I wasn't as stressed out about everything that slowed me down.   I did manage to lose a pair of socks and a can of Pringles on the way though.  Lesson learned- don't put things ...