Off topic

Nothing to do with Australia, but this photo just came out of me and a bunch of pals with Hanson from when I was back in the UK in December.

Couple this with the fact that I finished work early today and I'm now chilling in bed, I'm having a pretty good Wednesday!

How to win a Frenchman's heart

Saucisson.

Mathias complained that he missed saucisson (dried sausage that looks, and smells, a lot like rotten cock) so I used the world wide web to find a shop in Melbourne that sells it. It's actually only 5 minutes from our house. Bonus!

The lady at the shop recommended one to me - apparently the one that actual French people tend to buy - so I got that and some Comté cheese, plus some red wine and a baguette to go with it.

Now hes sitting in the chair looking like a content wee cat. The cheese was a bit crap (didnt taste like real French Comté), the baguette was too soft, and the wine had only cost $3.50 so probably tasted like piss, but apparently the saucisson was great and tasted like the real deal. Yay!

10 girlfriend points to me!

New Job!

Unfortunately I had to get back into the job hunting business this week, which was rather depressing as I had assumed I wouldn't have to do that again whilst over here.

Yesterday I had my first shift at a hotel, doing housekeeping. It's hot and physical but they give me money and that makes me happy! We celebrated last night with copious amounts of alcohol, which is totally different to our usual Friday nights........................

Anyway, the number one best thing about my new job is that I get FREE LUNCH! Mathias gets free lunch at his job and it has become custom for him to tell me all the yummy things he ate for free when he gets home every day. I've always been very envious of his free food so you can imagine my delight when I heard the words FREE LUNCH at the hotel!!

So, in keeping with tradition, here is a run down of what I ate and did not pay for yesterday:
Veggie pizza
Sweetcorn and green beans
Cheese sandwich
Potato fritter
A lot of coca cola and lemonade

Yum!

Happy Chinese New Year!

New house!

Our old landlord was a lying asshole and wouldn't let us extend our lease for our last 4 months in Melbourne, which left us in the lovely position of having jobs but nowhere to live and with nobody wanting to rent out for only 4 months.

However, eventually we found a place and we moved in here last weekend. I say "we", but actually I went to work on Saturday morning and when I came home the old room was empty and Mathias had taken it all to the new place and unpacked it. Amazing!

Our new place is SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE LAST ONE!! I am so happy! We no longer share our kitchen or bathroom with anyone else! I do miss Mimi though :(

Here are some pictures:

Here's our cute little street. It is so quiet! Our old street was really noisy, with building work across the street, so this is awesome.

Bedroom with the door that opens onto our tiny patio.

With a comfy chair and a tv so I can catch up on Neighbours ready for a Ramsay Street tour!

Wardrobe

Desk, aka "place to put crap" area

Our very own bathroom!

We can leave our toiletries in the bathroom!

Kitchen

We can leave all of our cooking stuff in the kitchen!

And the reason the kitchen is such a mess is because I decided to have homemade soup for lunch. I chopped and fried onion and garlic and then realised that there was no tin opener for my chopped tomatoes. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. So now I have half made soup and I had a peanut butter sandwich for lunch. Beasting!!

Wilson's Prom

A couple of weeks ago we went to Wilson's Promontory, which nobody can say and so everyone just calls it Wilson's Prom. It was brilliant! It felt so good to get out of the city and sleep in the tent and the car again and cook random food whilst trying to keep 1000 bugs out of the pan.

We couldn't camp at the park because it was the height of the season so we stayed for one night in a village called Loch... not much to say about it as everything was closed (even the pub!) and we didn't see anyone there at all. We drove 20 minutes to the nearest town to buy some beers for the night :) and we camped beside a cricket ground.

The next day we went to the park and saw lots of amazing beaches. I mean, AMAZING. All day I kept saying "but look at the colour of that water!!" I couldn't get over it. It looked like the beaches you see in adverts for tropical islands.

Darby Beach all to ourselves

Look at the colour of that water!!!

I even got into the sea...

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That night we slept just outside the park in the car.

Reliving my youth

The next day we went back to the park and hiked up a mountain! It was feckin roasting but when we finally made it to the top we got a 360 degree view of all the beaches and the forest.

Unfortunately we couldn't enjoy it for long because there were these huge flies up there that kept biting me! OMG WORST THING EVER!! After all that effort I couldn't even sit down and enjoy it because of these damn flies. Apparently they are called March flies and are also known as horse flies. They slash at you to cut you open, then spit their saliva into the wound to make sure the blood keeps flowing and then they just lap it up. Vile.

The other weird thing at the park was we kept hearing this really loud noise. It sounded like aliens might have landed close by and were trying to transmit signals into our brains!! Just as I was about to don my tin foil helmet, a park ranger told us it was an insect called cicada. This is what it sounds like:

So, we had a great time but it was nice to get home and enjoy the air conditioning and real beds. Here are another few pictures from the trip.

We thought these signs were really funny - how could you get all the way to Wilson's Prom without realising they drive on the left here?! Until I was driving around a corner and found a van heading towards us on our lane! Bloody tourists.

Watch out for kangaroos pooing birds

This weekend we are moving to a new flat! And next week the weather is back up to the 40s.

Holy Sweatbox Batman!

Its hot in here!

The weather has been in the +40s this week, its horrible! It feels like you're standing too close to a bonfire. All my shifts at work got cancelled because no visitors want to walk around outside getting crispy whilst watching an elephants balls get sweaty.

Luckily Mathias worked out how to use our air con unit, so we have mostly been hiding in our little fridge, watching movies and eating ice cream.

Everything is supposed to return to normal by Saturday, hopefully!