Melbourne certainly takes the cake for innocent yet surprisingly destructive 'art' installations. Every day at 9pm some columns of concrete surrounded by a curtain of water that are embedded along the banks of the Yarra river reveal their true nature. They are in fact, 30ft high flamethrowers which disgorge an impressive pyrotechnics display for no particular reason other than they can. Can't really see the point, although it does make you go 'oooohhh, aaaahhh' the first couple of times.
Innovative way to control the pigeons I reckon.
Flying to Perth tomorrow morning at 6am, which means being at the bus station by 3:30am to enable me to catch the right bus to get me to the airport. Nice!
30 May 2006
27 May 2006
When all you've got to keep is strong, move along...
Well here I am, finally in Melbourne. Like a somewhat more vertical Christchurch really. Been to the standard touristy type attractions; the museum, the art galleries, the botanic garden etc etc. Big cities are wasted on me, I'm not cut out for appreciating them. Give me a big wide expanse of 'natural' any day. Met some good folks at the 'Urban Central Backpackers', but I'm not sure I'll be able to get used to not living in a van anymore!
Looks like I may have managed to arrange some work over in Perth for a month or so, which will be great! Then I'll hopefully be flying back to the UK for a few weeks. Be nice to catch up with family and friends again!
19 May 2006
This could be...
"This could be the very minute, I'm aware I'm alive. All these places feel like home." - Snow Patrol
They do too, feel like home I mean. All these places I've visited, now that it comes time to leave them for another land I realise I felt very comfortable here. So the ticket for Australia is all booked, Christchurch to Melbourne direct; 7am in the morning on sunday mind you, so it'll be early to bed for me tomorrow!
I've put up a gallery of assorted photos from my travels around New Zealand, you can find it at www.arseaboutface.com/nz. Just a brief selection of images, some without captions as I'd already posted my old journal home and couldn't remember where I took the damn things. Plenty more where those came from, but I'll put all those online once I get home and develop a proper website around all this travelling malarky.
Originally I was planning to start my tour around Australia as soon as I arrived in Melbourne, however now I've been re-thinking my plans; mainly due to an old mate of mine getting married in July. (Cheers Richard!) I thought it was very inconsiderate of him to get hitched whilst I was going to be out in the middle of nowhere Oz, and I certainly don't want to miss the only time he'll be getting married! So I'm thinking about working for a month in Melbourne to get the cash for a ticket back to Ireland for the wedding, then flying back afterwards to continue my travels.
We'll see what the job market is like once I arrive in Melbourne. This had better be one hell of a wedding buddy, it's going to be one hell of a commute! :0)
They do too, feel like home I mean. All these places I've visited, now that it comes time to leave them for another land I realise I felt very comfortable here. So the ticket for Australia is all booked, Christchurch to Melbourne direct; 7am in the morning on sunday mind you, so it'll be early to bed for me tomorrow!
I've put up a gallery of assorted photos from my travels around New Zealand, you can find it at www.arseaboutface.com/nz. Just a brief selection of images, some without captions as I'd already posted my old journal home and couldn't remember where I took the damn things. Plenty more where those came from, but I'll put all those online once I get home and develop a proper website around all this travelling malarky.
Originally I was planning to start my tour around Australia as soon as I arrived in Melbourne, however now I've been re-thinking my plans; mainly due to an old mate of mine getting married in July. (Cheers Richard!) I thought it was very inconsiderate of him to get hitched whilst I was going to be out in the middle of nowhere Oz, and I certainly don't want to miss the only time he'll be getting married! So I'm thinking about working for a month in Melbourne to get the cash for a ticket back to Ireland for the wedding, then flying back afterwards to continue my travels.
We'll see what the job market is like once I arrive in Melbourne. This had better be one hell of a wedding buddy, it's going to be one hell of a commute! :0)
16 May 2006
Welcome to "arseaboutface.blogspot.com".
Welcome to "arseaboutface.blogspot.com". This will eventually be a place where I post news and the ocassional photo from my travelling. This is really just a lazy way for me to stay in touch with family and friends, but if anyone else finds this stuff of interest then that's just fine by me.
The general plan was to fly out to New Zealand from the United Kingdom, and then travel slowly home from there for as long as the money and the sanity lasted. New Zealand because it was about as far from home as I could get before you cross the point of no-return and start travelling back again. I'm a bit late in starting this blog as I've been in New Zealand for 12 months now, and am about to start a tour around Australia, but better late than never I suppose!
So I'll post in this blog as and when I can, it'll be in addition to regular (ish) e-mail updates to my family and friends; so apologies to them if they show up here expecting to read new and exciting information.
Current location is: Christchurch, New Zealand
The general plan was to fly out to New Zealand from the United Kingdom, and then travel slowly home from there for as long as the money and the sanity lasted. New Zealand because it was about as far from home as I could get before you cross the point of no-return and start travelling back again. I'm a bit late in starting this blog as I've been in New Zealand for 12 months now, and am about to start a tour around Australia, but better late than never I suppose!
So I'll post in this blog as and when I can, it'll be in addition to regular (ish) e-mail updates to my family and friends; so apologies to them if they show up here expecting to read new and exciting information.
Current location is: Christchurch, New Zealand
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