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The Nick Issue
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009We’ve been staying at a really small hostel for ages now. There is an 8 bed dorm and 3 double rooms, compare that to the hostel I’m using the internet in now, something like 50 dorm rooms, or Koala’s which is a huge complex of 4 bed dorms, and the place I’m staying is more of a house than a hostel really.
So here’s the issue. We’ve been staying for absolutely ages now, much longer than anyone in the hostel’s six month history. The owner, the nicest guy in the world called Nick, is getting a little annyoed with us we think. Due to the tiny size of the place we see him every day without fail and always at very close intimate quaters, there’s no diluting us. I know that the arguement runs that we’re filling one of his rooms every night and he’s getting money, but at the same time he does constantly ask us when our leaving date is. We’ve both been too chicken to tell him that it’s not for another two weeks yet…
So now we have to live in semi-awkwardness, indeed staying in our room until half twelve today just so we didn’t have to bump into him and explain ourselves. I’m not really sure how this will resolve itself, hopefully he’ll just accept us there for another 14 days and no more will be said… we shall see…
Other than this relatively blown out of preportion piece of non-news, Noosa remains dull by any standard you care to set. Come on Guatemala, hurry up.
Democrats, Republicans and Australians
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Sitting in the bar at work last night (yes, we've become like the rest of our coworkers and spend our time off at our place of employment,) we got speaking to some of the regulars. These people must be pretty ... [Continue reading this entry]
All falling into place
Monday, January 19th, 2009
The big fish/small pond syndrome only highlighted iteself further this week with some relatively disturbing news from my work mates. They had an ex co-worker 'checked out' by one of their policeman friends, and actually looked me straight in the eye ... [Continue reading this entry]
Tickets Booked, Guatemala baby
Friday, January 16th, 2009
Unfortunately, we still have a grueling however long (I think a month or so) of work before we can get on the way.
Still, the tickets have been booked, we're flying air Mexicana I think. It's got Mexico in the title, ... [Continue reading this entry]
Australia Zoo
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Today saw us get the free bus to Australia Zoo, the late Steve Irwin's zoo in Queensland. It is around an hour coach ride from Noosa, and it is absolutely awesome. After my day there, I am now officially afraid ... [Continue reading this entry]
Extra! Extra! Accepting the flow yeilds results!
Monday, January 12th, 2009
Nick, the hostel owner, made a little bit of a boo-boo the other night.
He takes the majority of his bookings from Hostelworld.com and there is a function on there to select the dorm to be a 'girls only' one. Problem ... [Continue reading this entry]
Noosa Pics
Saturday, January 10th, 2009
To add to my photo's, here's some pics of Noosa National Park, oh, and one that I found of Lauren and I at Glastonbury 2007 and felt I needed to share.
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[Continue reading this entry] The other trouser leg of time
Thursday, January 8th, 2009
After describing our encounter with the snake to our colleagues we have whittled down the culprit to the Brown Snake. Nothing to worry about apparently, but just to bring you guys up to speed, here's some facts about it that ... [Continue reading this entry]
A couple of pointers to would-be travelers that I have discovered while adventuring
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Regarding banks:
I'm with HSBC, I will never open an account with this bank ever again. More than once, after lenghty (and I do mean lenghty) phone calls to the bank while standing in dusty streets surrounded by people who can't ... [Continue reading this entry]
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