Last Night in This Infernal Land
And we spent it in a very similar way to our last night in Asia to be honest, although this time there was at least an element of originality about it. For our last night in Oz, we went to the cinema. Rock and effing Roll.
In our favour, it is the biggest Imax (and therefore I guess biggest screen) in the world so there’s no way an uber geek like me could miss out on it. We saw The Dark Knight, a film that thus far we had only seen on a super dodgy pirated copy on Koh Tao island, Thailand. Needless to say the pirated copy was the better off, hands down. It was annoying in the Imax how the screen was so big that when panoramic shots of the city came on the screen it felt as though you were flying in a helicopter, it was annoying in the Imax how the bass of the sound effects made your seat rumble, it was annoying how the screen was so big it almost felt 3D.
I am so full of crap.
Tomorrow we go to Fiji, or as Ozzy’s insist on calling it Fi-Gee. We’ve booked ourselves into a homestay at a lady called Dee’s house. It promises to be quite nice and a good way to get a snap shot of Fijian life. I closed my bank account today so have had all $700 of my balance burning a hole through my pocket, Lauren couldn’t close hers off today (something about ‘transactions pending’ ) so we’re forced into a mad-dash for it tomorrow morning before our flight leaves.
Can’t quite belive the tedium that is down under has come to an end. I’m so glad Lauren and I got through this without feeling entirely burnt out about traveling (and it has come close quite a few times.) It has been really, undeniably, rubbish. The notable exceptions being Sydney and the week in Noosa when Lauren’s family came out for new year.
Roll on now to the next big thing, South America and Guatemala. !Sobrecogedor!
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Travel
