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Published: July 19th 2009
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right iv got time to kill on the internet so im gona start th eblog on oz. we arrived here 2 months ago so theres no way il remember everything in proper detail but il give it a shot.
we arrived in darwin after flying from singapore at 6 in da morn. the people at passport control talked to us for a bit nd seemed a bit offended that me nd michelle were going to work in new zea nd not their lovely country. after a while of questions me nd sinead walked through customs were a nice sniffer dog went cracked at sineads bag. unfortunately sinead didnt take the no food from foreign countrys notices too serious. the woman was well thick nd told her there was a fine of $200, great start. we were all told to move over to have our bags inspected. they opened mine nd he found a soccer toy with feathers on it which i hadnt declared, so he got thick with me nd asked me to read the declaration form id filled out earlier, oops. thank god he didnt look in my boot bag that had half the forest of chang mai in it
😊. next was ruth who didnt declare her skipping rope which had timber on it so she got in trouble too. he gave out to sinead a bit more while michelle didnt get any hassle. in our defence we had travelled through so many countries where ya dont even read the forms at the borders, just tick yes on everything nd go on through, our naivity was punished. also it was 6 in da morn nd we were sleepy nd they were moody. fortunately sinead didnt have to pay the fine. we waited at the airport for an hour then got a bus to mitchelle st nd found a hostel, chillies. they let go to bed which was sweet as we were still wrecked.
darwin seemed really expensive but was really nice. the hostel we were in was like a prison, while across the road was a savage place caled menaluca, however we were too lazy to pack up nd cross the road to stay there, so we stayed in prison for a week. we hit darwin with a bang that night, we got a box of goon nd drank down by the esplenade. we got chattin to a kiwi
bloke who said hed bring me nd sin to check out a camper van in da morn at 6. later we met a few aussie lads nd drank wit dem for da nite, twas some craic. the next day i stayed in bed most the day wit an awful hangover, we also missed meetin da kiwi bloke to see the camper, ah well. at the weekend there was a 5 aside soccer comp which i went down to. i got chattin to a few irish lads nd joined their team as a sub. the games were knockout nd only 8 min long which was a bitch, fortunately one of the cork lads hadnt ran in about 4 years so i got on after 2 min nd scored. we lost 3-1 but wer very unlucky, even more unlucky was that i got hit by a lads arm in da nose, he was wearing a watch so as well as a nose bleed i got a nice cut on the bridge of the nose. i got patched up nd me nd m met up with the soccer lads nd went to a market in the eve. we ate bbq roadkill at one stall, the croc was nice but the buffalo, kangaroo nd camel wer a bit tough, im not messin either. we then sat on the beach for sunset with about 500 other people. we watched cork lose to tipp that night in shenanigans.
me nd michelle got to see most of the city by hiring bikes for a day, its a nice place but really small for a city. we went to the vic one eve for their cheap dinners. ruth got pulled out in a raffle, so she had to take part in a game. the usual type of dj game, go get a passport, phone, bra, jocks etc. michelle was on the ball for the bra task which amazed ruth as she arrived back on stage a gud 30 secs before anybody else. she got down to the last 4 of 12 but unfortunately when she ran to me to get a pair of jocks i was wearing swimming trunks nd nothing else under, gutted. ruth didnt realise i wasnt wearing any nd was well thick until i explained later 😊
one of the soccer lads, brian, was leaving so we had a session in our jacuzzi in the hostel, but seein that we were in prison we got kicked out fairly soon (of the jacuzzi not the hostel) we went across the street nd cont the party there. we later had to go watch brian do karaoke at 2 in the morn. he was twisted leaving an hour b4 his flight was due to leave.
we looked into hiring a campervan, we went to travellers-autobarn nd booked a stationwagon, campers only seat 3, which was a bitch. we got our stationwagon but it had no ac, they gave us all the camping equip nd we went nd bought everything else we needed eg gas can, food etc. we stopped off in macdonalds to get a monopoly game with a meal which we felt wud be very handy on the road. just before we were about to leave i realised i left my bag in macdonalds, i ran back nd my bag was behind the counter with my passport nd wallet still in it, however the wallet was minus $400 😞 gutted. we headed off that eve on our road trip. we had the car for 23 days. in that time we planned to head down to ayers rock nd than across to cairns where we had to give the car back. our first stop was kakadu national park......
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