Up at 8, in time for free pancakes. Changed to another hostel, MyPlace, bit cramped, and have to get used again to new people and find a new group/set of friends. Met up with the tour-group though, and walked along the river, through the botanical gardens, the main shopping area (including Mall's Balls) and watched the rugby 3rd place game, put the French (from the tour) on the bus to Melbourne, and said my farewells to the rest of the group.
Spent the next day in the museum and the art gallery - more specifically in the Aboriginal section of the museum and then a little time in a Saatchi gallery. Met Matthias, a nice german guy, who shared his sandwiches dinner with me (shops were closed when I got there - good shopping on weekends) and then learned two new card games with a bunch of the people from the hostel, English, Belgians, Israelians and the German guy. nice relaxing evening, and a good night's sleep (compared to yesterday - you'll have to ask for details)
Headed out to the Solar Challenge - racing on solarpower - saw the NUON and Universiteit Twente cars :P together with Koen and Thomas (the belgians) and Matthias, and then on to the Oval, cricket match was a bit expensive though, so walked around a bit longer instead of watching the game. Went to the Sportsbar round dinnertime to watch the Rugby World Cup finals - go All Blacks!! and then another 3 hours of playing cards...how else do you spend your evenings?
Next day was time for free dinner - yup - free dinner. Play a tune for a pizza at the Dukes' :) so I played a song and got a pizza, talked to Tiffany, the barmaid and her gayfriend Brad :P hung out with them until the bar closed at 11...it's a monday today :) Got a lot of free beer as well...that's gonna be wonderful tomorrow-morning...
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