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So Melbourne, another city within Australia, one of the contenders for the capital city of the Country. Well when we arrived it felt loads better than Sydney, and any other City within Australia, alot of backpackers and locals banged on about Melbourne saying how Beautiful and wonderful it is. To be fair they were right! Its got everything here, including the worlds 3rd largest IMAX cinema screen in the world, Sydney hold the top spot. The place where Ned Kelly got hung, home of Neighbours, it was nearly also calle d Batmania.
We arrived here in the height of Melbourne's crazy "Wet season", although its known to be the place where they have Four Seasons in a day, which was hard to believe, but it actually is! Bloody crazy place, starting with a nice day doesn't mean it'll stay for the day, let alone a couple of hours. Just a walk round Melbourne looked and felt alot better than any other city.
We started our adventure in Melbourne in a shoddy backpackers called Hotel Discovery, which was shiiiite! As we tried to book into another Hostel which we called home for 3 months called Vic Hall, which was exceptional! Although it was under construction, but its by far one fo the best hostels we been to in Australia.
So from the funky surroundings, and parks, and everything else there is a HEAP of legal Graffetti sites all around Melbourne and its surrounding suburbs, that are an awesome display of these fine artists masterpieces! For every 2nd Alley there's Graffetti GALORE! Most of which is in our Photo Album, with loads more thats not been photographed!
There's also a neat little old fashioned City Loop tram you can catch for free, which takes you around the city, and tells you information about whats going on around the stops. Which is handy for the newbie Melbournions. But most trams you can dodge the fairs on, which is a proven fact, as it loses like $300,000 per day in fair dodgers or something crazy like that :) If you get caught. Play dumb, "the old i'm not from around here, what you mean you have to buy a ticket"
Oh a quick mention for the guy you see in the pictures trying to commit suicide from one of the buildings, before being took down by the p0lice :)
So, at the time this was being written, it was done at our work place of ComputerShare, a share registry company. This be our place of work for the few months of being here. Its come at a great time, as we need the pennies :) Its great, we're on $20 an hour, and $24 after 7 :) Fook teh crazy minimum wage of $6(GBP) back home! Its crap!
So yer, we have also got ourselves a pad to tie ourselves over for a few months, its in need of some TLC, a lick of paint here, and a redesign there, but from what we've looked at and the small budget we set its a right GEM! So we're in Fitzroy North, down Brunswick street, its a realyl Alternative part of Melbourne, with loads of boutique, alternative fashion shops, little cafes, and pub/bar/clubs. its has a back street kinda feel (Not Backstreet boys!!) But its lovely! Tram right on our doorstep, with work round the corner! Pictures will follow :)
So yer, thats it for now i believe, if i can think of anything else, watch this space!
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