After a sleepless night and food that is easily worse than most any airline’s I was very happy to be picked up in Melbourne by Maris and quickly introduced to her boyfriend Alex and mate Kyran. Before I sat down, we loaded up two cars with a trailer and headed for Lorne, with over 3500 sausages in tow. We set up shop at the Falls Festival and then escaped to relax at Rough ‘n Tumble before the three days of sausage mania began. Because when more than 15,000 drinking, smoking and whatever-else-ing party goers congregate around two stages to watch the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Wolfmother, Grizzly Bear, Moby, Liam Finn, Seasick Steve and some thirty others for three days, they eventually get hungry. Enter the Gourmet Bangers stand, where we hussled to make the most extravagent
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