Dieseline

Adelaide, Capital of South Australia, population 1.1 Million. The only tourists that come here are lost ones and that, unfortunatly, includes me. Since the last update I have travelled to melbourne from Sydney. A rather uneventfull journey apart from the scenery which was pretty. Still no Kangaroos but plenty of fantastic birds with stunning pattarns that absolutely insist on flying directly into the van as we speed along at 110 KPH. Melbourne in itself is just another big city like any other, we did however prefer it to Sydney as the atmosphere and the people are much more relaxed and less stuck up. I lost $170 in the casino there on the first night and in keeping with this tradition I was very relaxed and calm about the whole thing. They still threw me out because apparently calmly force-feeding a deck of cards to the poker dealer is just as bad as doing it whilst snarling and shouting.

Our hostel completely rocked. It was only small (about 32 people max) but was totally relaxed, the manager Troy was completely happy to help you in any way and it allways felt like he was one of you rather than an overbearing big brother like figure, running the hostel with an iron fist. Unfortunatly the owner was that figure but thankfully she wasnt around much until something like $3 went missing and she went berserk and threatened to call the police. Most of our time in Melbourne was spent hanging around St Kilda ad going out to pubs and whatnot, we made a lot of lastig freinds and are now invited to Oktoberfest this year in germany! Everyone is German. We did visit Phillip Island to watch the local fairy penguins come out of the sea and up the beach into their underground homes which is an amazing sight, especcially when they chase around after the seagulls, ducking and diving this way and that until the sea comes up and washes them back in and the whole thing starts over again. I have decided that Fairy penguins are the god penguins and as soon as I get back I will start a religion that will worship and cherish them.

We left Melbourne for Adelaide 2 days ago with yet more german freinds and took the great ocean road detour to get there. This mostly involved sleeping as there really isnt much on the way except scenery and flat land, and the odd gas station selling "Dieseline" for much more than the usual price. At the border of South Australia we were forced to throw away all the fruit we had in the van. This is due to the Western half of Australia not having any fruit flies. Fruit flies can get into fruit and breed and the government is terrified that the tropical temperatures and high background magical energy would cause them to mutate into terrifying 70Ft tall flying, fire breathing killing machines. Which would probably cause comment from the local residents.

Upon our arrival in Adeliade we dropped off the Germans at their hostel and checked ourselves into a rather swanky place called the Blue Gollah, then went out for a few beers, where i plucked my leg hair and drank it (I made a bet with the germans and lost). It was worth it though as after i finished the beer i promptly took it to the counter and asked for a free one as there was clearly hair in the glass that i hadnt noticed before. Wish granted, One nil. Anyway now were just hanging around in this yuppie city until we can get a possie together and travel to Perth. Until next time!

- Walexei