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Published: October 15th 2007
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Ramsay Street
No Melbourne Travel Blog would be complete without this picture! So what Melbourne Travel Blog would be complete without a trip to Ramsay Street?!
I'd had a bit of a heavy night boozing session with work on Friday night (sorry Claire) and staggered in at about 3am. I have no idea where we ended up - but I have since been told I ordered dinner and drinks in a Greek restaurant and lasted 2 mins before going for a taxi home. I'm sure it was a good night.
So Saturday morning was a bit of a write off but, to be fair, I think I was due a long lie as I hadn't had once since getting here.
So we were thinking about what we could do for the afternoon - Ramsay Street was still needing checked off the list!
Actually - I am surprised that it took us this long to go out there and was even more surprised when I realised we'd been fairly close to it in the past without realising!
So you'll have heard of the Official Neighbours tour - its a bus that leaves central Melbourne every day and does a guided trip to Ramsay Street (which isn't obviously called Ramsay
The tour bus
our tour was $FREE! Street!), Erinsburgh High and Paul Robinson's hotel with Daphne's Coffee Shop. Now that costs $40, takes the best part of the day and your stuck on a bus for most of the time. To be honest, a quick look in Ramsay Street was all we needed to tick the box. So we drove out there - a 30 min or so drive from the city. It just so happened that the tour bus had arrived about 2 minutes before us and pulled out the Ramsay Street sign, so we quickly mingled into the tour to get the tourist pictures in!
Its been at least 15 years since I watched neighbours regularly, and at least 10 months since I last even saw it (yup, it was about 10 months ago I was sitting JIEB and developed a passion for day time TV!). Basically, Claire and I had no idea who any of the characters we heard mentioned were, with the exception of Toadfish, Carl and Harold Bishop. We couldn't really remember who lived in any of the houses about the time we watched it either - so please send answers on a postcard if we are wrong when I get
round to putting comments beside the pics!
Bouncer wasn't to be seen anywhere (I'm determined to find an Australian dog called Bouncer) and Toby wasn't playing rounders on the street. How things change! There were, however, a few cars parked here and there which Claire assumed they were "set cars" and asked who drove them! She was quite disappointed to learn that people actually live in the houses, and that the indoor filming doesn't actually take place there. It crossed my mind if she thought that it was actually actors who lived in the wee houses we walked by one evening last year in Luss, watching a bit of TV before a hard day of filming the next morning!
So that was the Neighbours thing done - maybe we felt too much like locals to get too excited by it, but it did bring back loads of memories of Mrs Mangle, Joe and Jane - Jim, Scott, Charlene & Lucy - Helen & Madge - Cody, Doug & Pam... I would totally go back and do the real tour if Charlene were to make a come back!
Other than that - Claire has been hunting high and
low for a pair of snowboard boots. Its the end of the season here, so kinda the cheapest time to get them - so she spent a few hours trying (seriously) trying on pair after pair. We almost got there and have found the perfect boot for her right foot - shame the left foot didn't fit into the left boot though! Maybe next weekend!
On the recommendation of the guy that sits beside me at work, I bought the "entertainment gold guide" which is a book that costs about $70, with all proceeds going to charity. The book has got vouchers in it for just about anything you want to do - or anywhere you want to eat - we've used it about three times so far, and have very nearly made or $70 back on it already! Anyway, that took us down to Docklands where we hadn't really spent any time before (other than looking at flats when we first got here). The area is totally fab - Dad you would love it! Loads of nice cafe's / bars and restaurants all right on the marina front and loads of stuff going on. I can't wait to
go down there in the height of summer for a wee boat trip!
Tucker and Caroline have now moved into their flat, exactly a 7 minute walk down St. Kilda Road from us. The invited us round for dinner - what a place they live! Ultra modern (they are the first to live in it) and the balcony is quite literally massive! Can't wait to get some pictures of it next time we are over - and also can't wait to get a shot in their outdoor pool as it seemed a lot warmer than ours!
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