sarah babes & steve-o RTW!

'Ocean Drive' - Southern Ocean, Victoria Australia.

G'day cobbers! (Please excuse that.) Yes, we're in Australia. Been in and around Melbourne last few weeks. Racked up a few hundred miles along the above pictured 'Ocean Drive'. Kind of like the Antrim/North Coast & Donegal...well, on steroids and with 30c degrees fekkin' heat! (Water was bloody freezin' though.)

'12 Apostles'

'Arty' Seagull shot...

Best we could do with a 50quid digi cam. Apologies. Real visual-fest though, only marred by single lane roads, and tree-huggers from all over the woyld driving those bloody wickedcampers.com.au hired vee-dubs! What part of the signs instructing 'slow vehicles' to pull in, did you lot not understand! Jaysus! (Thanks Irene for the use of your car. Subaru Impreza I may add. Carbon emissions rawk!)

So, off to Sydney in a few days. Itinerary unknown from there. You could say it has been reverse 'culture-shock' arriving here. We're already missing the crazed hawkers, tuk-tuk drivers & Health/Safety defying food stalls! Waaay too westernised. Seeing so many obese people after the last 4 months in Asia has been an afront to the eyes too...

Since the last post:

We've been to a Gospel meeting (No raking, the things you gotta do for a free bed, eh?). This was good though as we found out that 1/ the Earth is only a few thousand years old (Dinosaurs anyone?) 2/ Women and Aborigines (I swear the preacher said 'Abbo's') are responsible for all the troubles of mankind. Fekkin' literal Bible freaks, who'd have 'em eh? (Rapture was mentioned too, though unfortunately not the N.Y. band...strewth!)

We've been up close and personal with Koala's (Alistair Campbell gotta be behind their P.R. team...these things are UGLY!), Duck-Billed Platypus's (eh?), Wombat's, and the Roo's? They're vermin. Everywhere! Almost like they're trained to pop up when the bloody foreigners drive by!

HIt Melbourne City for Chinese New Year and the St. Kilda Festival. Explored the infamous Brunswick St. Found some amazing Indie shops - vinyl, threads etc. (as in independent, douchebags), in and around there and Chapel St. Dodged the tram fares (Amsterdam Deja-Vu), Whipped a few Ozzy punks asses on Virtual Tennis 3, down China Town in the arcades - one up for wee Norn-Iron! (Though the city does feel quite small after the last few months, only a population of 3 million I think.) Been hitting the courts in the real world too quite a bit actually (Tennis mental out here.) - Sarah still owning me though, and on Friday night we checked out an Ozzy rules 'Footy' game. IT ISN'T FOOTBALL PEOPLE! 18 players on each team (on field), 4 refs, several team strategy 'relays', & randoms keeping players hydrated (as the pitch is vast), meant at one count there was around 45 people on field during play! What. The. Fek?! 'Poetry In Motion' this is not...

So - where we are right now is pure 'Sideways' country. Yarra valley to be specific. Prime wine growing region, Victoria. I swear Moet & Chandon have a vineyard not 10 minutes from here. Bootiful! But, as always, it must come to an end. More to follow from us then as per the usual - when we can be arsed. Until then, Au Revoir! (And we promise to not be so lazy with the camera from now on.)

Mucho Love,

Steve.

Some randomness:

'Brunswick Street', Melbourne City - heart of the live scene. Regarded as 'Bohemian' by Satan's Guidebook. So it's not (probably.)

This one's for you Bubba! You didn't happen to mention the pizza franchise you have out here...

Sarah. 'Federation Square', Melbourne City. Too. Cool. To. Even. Look. At. Camera.

Me on our last big 'Hurrah' in Bangkok. Taken in 'Tapas' club. Havin' it large, so it is (and any other cnut cliches...) Though if I don't mind saying so myself (though probably no-one other than J 'Red-Elvis' will be interested), that hat was a complete result of a find. Under a tenner, genuine Puma 'Guillermo Vilas - the Bull of Pampas' 1977 Fedora! Get in! (Only to get farked up later that night - blew off my head, whilst on the back of a tuk-tuk, then got ran over by a car. Couldnae believe it!).

Google 'Ping-Pong' show, Bangkok. Though not if your in work.

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OUR PLEDGE:
Following the recent (hilarious, and deserved I may add) savaging of Max Grogarty (Guardian dropped the ball there big time), and sage advice via Maddox, we promise to:
1/ Stop using 'web speak' a la 'LOL/LMAO/FFS' etc. etc. in our posts. Because it reads like arse.
2/ Stop pretending we're backpacking, and face the fact we're two 'professional loafer' thirty-somethings, on a year's holiday (Honeymoon?) exploiting every cheap-ass developing country we can get a Visa for.
3/ Start trying to speak proper in our posts. And not CAPITILISE for EMPHASIS. Because it reads like ARSE!

Please excuse any slippage in this transitional period. And please, please do not let us get away with any douche-baggery!

Thank you, and Good-Night!