You do realise what kind of area you're moving into, don't you?
Monday, 21 March 2005
We are now housed for the next few months in Melbourne. We managed to find a little studio flat almost straight away in an extremely jammy way. It's right in the middle of St Kilda which seems to be the only place you can stay easily if you want a short term contract in a little but pretty nice studio flat just off Grey Street.
Grey Street, Trent informed us as we walked past the other night, is where all the prostiutes hang out. This is indeed true. When we got a taxi with our stuff to move in the other night our taxi driver said to us, "You do know what kind of area you're moving into, do you?". We were like, "Well there's lots of prositutes hanging around...anything else?". "No, maybe some burglary.."...."No matter", says us, "We've lived in Manchester and London". Im sure we'll cope. The prositutes are quite nice and smiley and friendly looking. I think we'll all be greate friends within a month or so. Not entirely sure they are illegal here either.
Still, we are about 5 minutes away from St Kilda beach, about 1 minute away from a big massive supermarket (imagine how excited Catherine is at this prospect) and about 15 minutes away from the CBD. All in all it's pretty good and we are quite into the prospect of settling down for a while and having a normal life. Well, normal apart from all the sun and sand and surfing people and that kind of stuff. Mum, can you send me over my chest wig and speedos? Cheers.
The CVs are out there and we are both trying to get some decent paying work to fund the second half of our trip. We've been out with both Seb and Trent and all is going swimmingly so far. Melbourne seems to have some kind of phenominal live music scene going on which is a very nice antidote to all that substandard music in asia. Just the other night we went to see Plantlife, a kind of new funk band that are quite like Prince, at a venue just down the road and they were great. Woo hoo! Wednesday, DJ Babu and Iriscience are playing. Im only allowing myself to go if I've got a job by then. Got to get moving then...
So yes, probably going to be a bit light on the old bowelwatch action for the next few months while we do our thing in a normal, western style way that isn't that remarkable.
Finally, Catherine's ankle has mended pretty much which is all good. She's started the final part of her recovery which involves eating alot of RED MEAT. I must admit the insessant advertising for it really gets to you after a while.
Right, I'm off for a massive steak.
On March 22, 2005, Bryony said:
Jesus you guys move fast! I havnt even managed to get out of Thailand and you too are already locals with a supermarket and door without a combination lock! Impressive...superhero-like even.
enjoy all that normality has to offer, and have some protien for me!
b
On March 23, 2005, Seb Halse said:
5 REASONS WHY DAN AND CATHERINE BECOMING REALLY OZTRAYLIAN
1. Stewwwwwwwwwwth they luv deaaaaaar Victorian Bitter Cobbers
2. They have matching ‘his and her’ Oztraylian shopping bags (bought of course at great expense). Nothing spared for the Webbs.
3.Dan is eating shrimp (nothing more said), and looking to wear a pair of board shorts.
4.They are visitng Mrs Mangel’s residence and looking to cook Bouncer on the barbie.
5.They are getting into the Ozzie KULCHA, some real proper comedy from some funny sheilas.
P.S. Don’t worry Mum and Dad, they are learning how to sheep shag. They will be very good when they get home. Duan will be dead impressed.
Peace.
Seb.
On March 23, 2005, andy said:
Tie m' Kangaroo down sport,
tie m' kangaroo down,
SHAG A WALABY...
But have your jabs first
On March 24, 2005, Dan said:
Seb! I will not eat shrimp or any kind of fish related creature. No way.
The other stuff I'd have to admit to. We've also see alot of people sporting mullets. It appears that the mullet is actually more popular here than in the states. Im impressed. You see alot of rat's tails though which makes me uncomfortable frankly.
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