Noodles and Pegleg get Melbournized

Step one: gather one Noodles and one Pegleg
Step two: unleash them on Melbourne.
Step Three: Let the shinnagins begin

Me and peggy checked in to Melbourne YHA, and hit the town for a good night out. Melbourne is famous for its small ally and unique bars and we found a good collection of them. Bar one Betty Browns a small bar below the hostel, with a funky feel suitcase tables and old funky chairs. Bar two an bar on an island half way across a walking bridge along the beautiful Melbourne river. And in cold weather we sat near braziers and watched the city with a fat yak beer in hand. Bar Three an outdoor bar only called section 8, its like a beer garden without the bar, and the drinks are served out of a burrito stand of sorts. It was funky original with crazy lighting, wooden raised benches and all sorts of trees. And it was here we met two hipsters who would escort us to the next bar. As we started following them down a small dingy alley we were 95 percent sure they were just going to mug us, another group of well dressed funksters started down the same alley as well and around there corner where there would usually be just dumpsters was a three floor bar themed like a science lab. They drinks were in beakers and crazy glass containers , and you drank drinks out of syringe tubes while the dj mixed to an old silent movie projected on the wall, Insane. We danced the hell out of the place and proceeded to drink beer and eat Chinese food until the wee hours of the night sitting along the river.

Day two brought a wonderful wander across the city to Melbourne’s famous markets, literally and I you not like a mile long and selling everything from fresh produce to wooley hats. From here our wander took us past rows of lovely historical row houses that felt like they were in a small quiet town not a big city, and around the block you would find amazing modern artistic monsters, housing all sorts of museums and galleries surround by gorgeous gardens and parks, I love this city. From here we checked out the amazing alley graffiti surrounding little cafés, restaurants and bars that lined the small alleys. The night brought us to the Casino where we met my buddy Rosco and another friend we met at the hostel and gambled our money away. I was up 140 on roulette and lost that all in 15 minutes leaving me down 60 bucks , nice. All and all Melbourne rocks our socks something fierce.

On the last episode Of Doran Dangers Australian Adventure, and Goodbye Sydney

First of all I haven’t left Australia and I will be back in Sydney but I have left it as my home in Australia, here is what folks may have missed sense I have not put something up for months, my b, but to make up for it I will be blogging about my travels which I am currently on, so these next few are in the past. Here is some stuff that happened towards my end of Sydney times:

-I worked as activities while my buddy Dan was on vacation, shopped heaps, cook mad big meals with my mad awesome volunteer staff.
- Laughed till I cried
- Cried till I laughed
- Drank with the best folks on this here earth
- All my friends both ozzy, foreign and American helped me more than they would even know.
- Had a bitchin birthday, went skydiving and was accompanied out for drinks with a crew of 35 of the best .
- Did I mentioned I went skydiving? Was about the most brilliant thing I have ever done, and I have spent a lot of my life not being ok with heights. For those that say they never could do it, do it, its far safer than you would think, your jumping tandem with an instructor that has jumped literally thousands of times, and it will open your eyes to a world you will never believe. The worst part is the flight up, but once your out the door your hardly notice how fast your falling or how high you are, and trust me I use to be soooooooooooo afraid of heights. But once you start falling and for the 30-45 seconds that follow fear losses some of its shape a bit, and you experience the weightless timeless feeling of being between the clouds in the fastest moving slow motion exultant experience one can hardly imagine without feeling it, you feel weightless, timeless, eternal and awed breathless without words. The Adrenaline after makes you feel like you could jump mountain’s and kick sailor’s your so ampted and you want to go again after, I also got It fo free from my work and my folks, so thanks to you both for the lovely gift and the hilarious dvd of me scared to death through the whole process.
- I moved out of my lovely Rocks apartment and say goodbye to my lovely housemates of the Rocks Push Gang.
- Had a lovely weekend with a lovely lady in the Hunter Valley took a wine tour and became wino’s with a whole collection of lovely foreigners.
- Finished work and then hit the road to Melbourne and the Great Ocean Road.

On the next Episode Noodles and Pegleg get Melbournized.