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Right so today was all about the sport! I packed in the Rod Laver Arena tour, the MCG tour and a trip around the National Sports Museum which had a fantastic Olympics exhibition, posters, medals and things of interest, articles from every single Olympics, that was great.
The tours were great and it was good to be able to get around the Rod Laver Arena especially, it's a lot smaller than it looks on TV and the main court is certainly a lot smaller than Centre Court at Wimbledon but it was still good to be there. One interesting thing the lady said was that, as the courts are all outdoors they have a trained Falcon that flies around the courts scaring the birds away so that they don't poo on people. HA! Brilliant.
I finished up around 5 ish and heade back to the train station to get back to Xenia's, looking at the board I found which platform I needed and headed off in that direction. Once I got there I actually couldn't see the platform so asked a member of staff who told me it was under the bridge. As I walked closer and closer to it I couldn't help thinking that it was a bit creepy and looked like a disused rail line when I thought I heard shouting, I ignored it and carried on walking before the shouting got louder. I turned around a saw a rail worker walking very quickly in my direction and waving me back.
I turned around and walked over to him and he said, "sorry not this platform, number 1"
Me: "it said on the board platform 14?
Him: "yes, I know, but we've changed it now"
Me: " ok so now its platform 1?"
Him: "yes, I'll change the board….i've changed the board. It's not this platform"
(Hmm…..)
So I walked back with him to the crowded platform (not embarrassing AT ALL) and on the way he asked me if I was French!?
???????
No. I'm not French. Strange boy.
I got home and told Xenia about it, and then waited for her family to arrive as we were all going out for dinner and trivia night at Xenia's local just over the road - oh how I've missed a good quiz!
The evening was lovely and Xenia's family are wonderful. Oh yea, we actually won the quiz too which was great, but I'm not reading too much into it as I did, at one point, have to clarify with the quiz master that in fact, the UK was a part of Europe, to which she said "But it's not really is it?" to which I replied "So which continent would you put it in then, Africa? the America's…?"
She replied by saying "Ok, I'll give you the points"
I do love a good quiz.
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