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So after sulking about leaving bondi, perfecting my skills on the waves at surf camp and taking a flight without sleep...here i am in melbourne. The first few days were a bit miserable because I was comparing it to sydney and I have to say I'm a total sydney girl...the longer I've stayed here though the more I have grown to love it which may have something to do with the fact that the sun has come out now and it's so hard not to be happy when it's sunny as well as the fact that Dunksy is here and I realised that the station I was living next to (flinders street) is the one out the jet song!! wooo.
We arrived to a big festival in st kilda which is a really nice seaside town that you have to get a tram to and the sunsets are absolutely stunning. Besides that, melbourne is a really really arty city with music everywhere and sculptures and museums and cafes on every corner. We found our $5/jug bar and a $4 pancake shop so are set for the next couple of weeks.
As well as $5 jugs and $4 pancakes, we filled the next week with trips to a horse racing museum (best not to ask, not my idea) walking down the yarra river (which had a school sports day having rowing races what seemed to be all the time) to the docklands where as well as really modern buildings and a nice harbour, there is the telstra dome, rod laver and vodafone arenas as well as cricket nets and tennis courts where we watched victoria bushrangers (cricket) train and imagined what it would be like during the olympics...my guess was it was brilliant! We went to the botanical gardens, a short film festival...or the beginning of one, saw hamish and andy possibly the only 2 funny famous people in oz...sort of a funny ant and dec, and federation square.
We also went to the skydeck to look out across the city and went to hifi bar to see jack penate with the girls (fowler and dunks) as i dont think you are allowed to visit melbourne without taking in some music and going to a cafe. We went to the casino to go to some bars and meet friends as well as finding a club we'd heard about called the croft institute...there are no words for how much of a weird place this was!
Apart from being in the middle of china town down the scariest of scary alleyways (and when i say alleyway i mean the back of kitchens, bins, about 17 twists and turns and no doubt 30 odd crouching ninjas and a few mafia boss hq's thrown in) you get a rush of relief for about 0.3 seconds when you eventually find the place, step inside and it's back to just plain terror as you walk in to see what seems like a former hospital with medical equipment spookily lit and operating tables in the toilets...such a bizarre place, totally quirky and when I stopped shaking it was actually quite cool. The second time we went we had our friend with us who we hadn't seen since bondi to distract us with tales...and tales (and tales and more tales ;)) of his travels so far...love you rich!!
So after all this was the grand finale...ramsay street! got on our neighbours tour minibus at 8am which was beautifully decorated so all the locals could look at us judge us and assume that we were english as we passed by on our way to erinsborough high!! very bizarre...photo stop and then back on the bus for a few more reruns of old school neighbours before pulling into the studios where we were greeted by declan, much to the delight of dunks and fowler who were very unimpressed that the boys had even gone on the tour ''not being true fans'' and all! photographs and autographs and back onto the bus to go to ramsay street!
lots smaller than I imagined, ramsay street was just what it says on the tin (or tv)...after waving to harry's, standing in the kennedys archway, basking in the glow of the house of trousers and throwing a few evil looks over at paul robbo's house, we got back on the minibus to watch harry's rediscovery on the way back into melbourne to pick up our big huge 4x4 which would be our way out of mebourne and onto the great ocean road!!
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