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Day 11
After arriving in Byron we had a look around the shops and tried to get a hire car and drive to Nimbin. Luckily we were priced out of doing this, plus I hadn?t slept much the night before on the coach, and we?d only just got off the coach. We should have been asleep anyways and I definitely shouldn?t of been driving. In the end we booked to go on a Nimbin tour early the next day.
Our hostel was pretty good, right on the beach and you can use bikes and body boards free of charge. Unfortunately our roommates wernt so good - friendly enough but really loud and annoying and fitting in a afternoon power nap was hard work. In fact they took the prize for being the most annoying people we have had to share with.After a kip we decided we might aswel go out again as a club called Cheeky Monkeys is meant to be packed every night..
We met 2 girls at the hostel who were hardcore Brentford fans (up the bees?!) and one did a similar job to me so we slated council work. After hitting the goon (what the aussies call cheap boxed wine - $10 for 4 litres!) we had a pretty good night and got back at sunrise.Day 12Up at 10am for the Nimbin tour and feeling grim.
Nimbin is a small hippy town 2hrs inland from Byron. We were told by a hippy woman on the Greyhound that ?Nimbin was started by Vietnam vets who came home and were just tired of this s***, you know?. Anyways, it is a town of pot smokers/sells and the police turn a blind eye to it. Everyone we saw there had dreadlocks and was completely spaced out, as you can imagine.A friendly cookie (hash cookie) seller told us in a very spaced out tone that ?there is sooo much more to nimbin than this one street, there are sooo many creative people here. We have artists, writers, musician, ya know, so many creative people. You have to accept people for their differences and that?s what Nimbins all about?. Weirdo.
Anyways its basically 1 small street of head shops selling bongs etc. Colourful and worth the visit for freak value.When we got back the hostel had a bbq planned for that night so we had some meat instead of noodles for a change. Free wine during bbq aswell so we went out again afterwards.We wernt feeling too great in the club and were pretty tired but then we bumped into Wes (a Englishman who played tennis for an American uni), who was our roomate in Auckland. Funny how these things happen, but he?s a good laugh so we stayed till the end of the night again. As Wes is doing the same route as us we?ll be traveling up the East coast with him in tow from now on, which should be a laugh.
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