Strewth, ya flaming galores, I’ve pulled me hammie, throw a shrimp on the barbie, Bruce, Sheila, Rolf Harris, Didgeridoo and other such Australian stereotypes.<\/p>\n
I’m here!<\/p>\n
After a few chilled out days in Christchurch (including a trip on the TranzAlpine train to Arthur’s Pass – photos to follow) I thought it’d be a great idea to have a few beers last night – after all, twas the last time I was going to be seeing Mette, Kate, Jen, Jersey, Welshy, Cat, Anne and Ian for some time so it’d be rude not to.<\/p>\n
Sadly it meant that I got in a bit drunk at 12:15am.<\/p>\n
Then got up at 4:00am to get into Christchurch airport for my 6:15am flight.<\/p>\n
This morning was quite, er, delicate. Still, both myself and Chris (who’d decided going to bed was a crap idea and just stayed up all night) made it onto the plane… and after lots of dozing on the plane – and a 4 hour sleep in the lovely hostel (Freeman Lodge) over in the Richmond part of Melbourne – we’re now alive again!<\/p>\n
At first glance Melbourne seems ace. Big, bustling, diverse city with loads of things to see \/ do \/ eat \/ drink (although there might not be much of that going on today)… a good place to stay for a couple of weeks, methinks.<\/p>\n
Which is lucky, as that’s what I’m going to do.<\/p>\n
Hopefully tomorrow or the day after Squage’ll get his ass in gear and fill you in on the last week in New Zealand…<\/p>\n
Till then, no worries.<\/p>\n
Pat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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