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Published: February 25th 2008
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the view from out appartement Hey everyone. Well it’s been a mental time being in Melbourne and finding my feet etc. it’s a really big city and haven’t really done as much as we should have but then again we’ve got 2 days left yet. The first couple of days we just chilled and got used to everything. Last Thursday we went up to Melbourne zoo which is probably the best zoo I’ve ever been too, there were so many animals. The apes were wicked and Claire got a wicked picture of the daddy posing. Also there were a pride of lions which are amazing and we were having bets on who was the king lion, after this little argument we looked over the other side and a pack of wild dogs were about to be fed which was really cool them flying through the air trying to find meat. the lions weren’t happy by this lack of attention to them and started having a huge fight. Was amazing to watch, oh and btw I was right about which lion was the king, lol. We had a really great day and the weather matched. On Friday we caught a free shuttle bus down to the St
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simply awesome Kilda beach, a lovely beach with retro shops apparently. Well we got there at about half 10 went down to the beach and froze to death, after we decided to go see these retro shops, we walked round for about an hour and found dodgy cafes and wholesaler’s. just as we were about to give up home and decided how crap St Kilda is we realised we had walked in the opposite direction and there were loads of amazing shops, this was a talent me and Claire seem to have lol. We looked round for a bit then caught the shuttle home. Its been really cool having Claire’s aunt Nicola here we’ve gone out and had lunch and she took us to one of her friends just outside St Kilda, which was a really fun night, had a few to drink, no change there I know. Saturday we went downstairs to find a notice for a ford campa van for 3500 dollars, that’s like 1700 pounds. This looked amazing so we kept our fingers crossed and gave him a call to find out he hadn’t sold it so said we would meet up with him, turned out he wanted to
alex
makes alex look huge meet in St Kilda, cant get away from the bloody place. We met Nicola in St Kilda as well and all went down to find the place, after about an hours worth of shite navigation from Kyle we finally met up. I had high hoped of the van as Kyle was really good fun and we started talking straight away also he was so laid back it was ridiculous. When we saw the campa which is red I fell in love straight away is a manual which may sound strange but all the cars here are auto. It had a built in bed in the back as well as a bed side table, 3 seats in the front, its very own dukes of hazards horn and a load of camping gear. I took it out for a test drive and after a few stalls got the hang of it. We parked up Kyle asking what I thought and I replied “I think you shouldn’t sell it to anyone else”, we were having a few problems with our bank cards and they had stopped us drawing money for fraud reasons so we didn’t have enough to get it on the spot
nelly
me on an elephant but he said he would hold it for us. We got the banking sorted and met up with Nicola and Kyle in St Kilda, again! We bought the car so we know have our very own campa van, officially travellers. The vans called Barry as the guy left us a Barry white tape which came on the first time we turned on the engine making us all laugh. We also went down to the Victoria market on Saturday and Sunday where they sell all fresh produce picking up dinner for about a fiver and 2 kilos of cherries for 2 dollars, result! Today we took Barry for a drive up to ballarak which is about 100 kms away which was great fun as I got to drive and it was a lovely day. We came back and had our first ready meal since we been here and that was only because the big shops are closed, we’ve been eating really well. Tonight just gonna chill on our rooftop and have a few drinks. Planning on going into the city centre tomorrow before we have to leave on Wednesday. Anyway my fingers hurt now so gonna go. Will speak to you
nelly mark 2
spaz on an elephant all soon, love ya and miss ya.
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