Out of all the places left on the trip, Melbourne was one that I was really looking forward to. Having lived in Sydney for the past year and a bit, one of the things that I really missed from London was small bars. New South Wales has really expensive booze licences and so the only way a pub could make money was to be about 3 floors high and fill one of them with pokie machines. Everyone we spoke to said Melbourne was the opposite. We ended up staying 4 nights so bare with me while I waffle on! ;)
When we arrived, we pretty much drove straight into town to go shopping :) I needed to go suit shopping and Jess wanted to swap her ring for a smaller size. Out of the heat, her fingers weren't quite as chubby as in Uluru! Melbourne is a cool place, with better shopping and bars than Sydney. Because of this we also went shopping the next day as well! It was also the hottest day ever in Melbourne history and hopping from air-con shop to air-con shop was definitely where the smart money was. What we didn't realise until everyone started texting us, was that the bushfires had got really bad and spread massively due to the 100km winds. Around 70 people have died and for the second time on this trip, we found ourseleves in the middle of a natural disaster.
For dinner, we planned to go to someplace recommened in the guide book, so we waltzed up without a reservation and got a table straight away. We later found out that this is one of the hardest places to get into and is booked for months. I think they took one look at me and clearly thought "this guy has money" hahahahaha and I was wearing flip-flops too. Bam! The food was lovely though.
The plan for the evening was to head to one of the areas we went shopping in and go to a bar. However, there were so many cool bars, that it turned into a pub crawl! I really wish Sydney was like this.
Next day we met up with our old producer from RSP which was cool and then checked out the museum for moving image. I had booked some open-air cinema tickets that evening in the botanic gardens and we so packed a picnic and spent the night lying on bean-bags, drinking wine and watching a documentary called Man On Wire. It was about the guy who tightrope walked between the world trade centre in New York and I would definietly recommend it!
Probably the last thing worth a mention was the chocolate cafe we went to on the last day. We had heard that these were a new thing and was super keen to try one out. Theye are just like a normal cafe but serve shedloads of chocolate things. Yum. I stuffed my face till I felt sick.
Dirty sanchez:
I don't know how, but I almost forgot to mention hiking into the burbs to check out the street where they film Neighbours. Pretty exciting stuff eh!? Well I thought so. I haven't actually watched the program for about 12 years, but it is still the same. Jess took the piss and tried to wander about the street not looking like a tourist, despite the camera, campervan and I love Melbourne t-shirt. Epic fail.
Ramsey Street:
No comments:
Post a Comment