New Continent, New Look, New Style of Traveling. Oh, and coincidentally the worst day of traveling so far…
Got to Oz A-O.K. but before we go too far into that, lets have some backstory…
I glossed over some details about Singapore, we were staying in a clean 12 person dorm, this was alright, the first real dorm we’ve stayed in but pretty neato so we didn’t mind. What we did mind on the first night is the 2 morbidly obese men in the dorm (they weren’t together) and their obscenely loud snoring. There was also another, he wasn’t obese, but he was loud. Dear God he was loud. Cue a sleepless night and much bitching around the bunkbeds between all the other dorm inhabitants the next day.
The following night wasn’t much better. The two fatties had moved on and out, but the other guy was still there. He wasn’t snoring at all as I drifted off. When I vaguely regained some conciousness, maybe I was rolling over, his snore was so loud that it woke me right up, and kept me up for the rest of the night. I’d had 3 hours sleep.
Follow this with a flight where the child behind us would not stop kicking our chairs and thats sleepless night number 3. We got to our hostel in Melbourne, Cooee, and it seems that check in isn’t until 2p.m. It’s 9 a.m. when we arrive and we are told to relax in the communal area. We were so tired that Lauren fell straight asleep, I drifted in and out, semi-hallucinating because I cannot work out if I’m dreaming or not. This went on for a full 3 hours.
But still, we are here now, we have 2 bright new mobiles that we are struggling to register online, but once we do we will be able to call all you lovely family folk back home. It’s a little surreal actually, we both are so used to S.E.Asian life now that when the lady at reception asked if I wanted to pay by card I was taken aback. In Asia, nothing was done on card.
Tags: Australia, Melbourne, Travel
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