29th August Darwin - Australia

So arrived at my hostel, i had heard horror stories of getting there outside normal times and not being able to get in.

But i arrived at the hostel about 4:30am, phoned the night manager, and he showed up in about 5mins. All good so far. he didn't seem to know i was coming, although i had made a reservation. He checked the PC i was willing to give him the referance number, as he said "that ain't gonna fucking help me" he didn't say it nastly or anything. i just just found out australians swear more then my sister !!! lol

So he also said i couldn't pay for the hostel yet either, so i didn't mind that, he just wanted some picture id to keep till i come down in the morning a pay. oh well ok, he told me how to get to my room. got to the room, it is a 4 bed dorm. i agian have the top bunk. I always seem to get the top bunk, im always last in the rooms.

So i did make a little noise and woke up a couple of them i think. most went back to sleep. i got into bed, not a bad bed, rather comfy actually softer then what i have been use to.

However i tried to get to sleep. and this is quite sick really if you ask me. i am dam sure the bloke below me was knocking one out. yes having a knuckle shuffle, yes meeting mrs palm and her five lovely daughters. well i guess thats what it was i wasn't going to check, but us men can tell the sound. dam so i put my earplugs in and went to bed. (im pretty sure he was, i was talking to the irish bloke in the room and he noticed some used condoms on the floor right by his bed. i mean i know us blokes have urges and stuff, but not when people are in the room. well ok with men in the room !!!)

got up around midday. instead of going down to pay i went straight out the front door. wanted to check out darwin first see what it has to offer, as i had booked 5 days. which was too much.

there are a few things to do around darwin, but most of them are 2-3 day trips, around the parks, they look good but are expensive and i don't want to do all of them.

so back to the hostel, paid just for 3 nights. Which again they couldn't find me on the PC, but the women that took the money of me charged me a dam site less then i thought she was going to so that good. i was gonna pay 105AUD for 5 nights, but for 3 i paid only 43AUD. good good.

so walked around today, just chilling out, found nothing interesting to be honest. found the supermarket. got myself a australian sim card. Im gonna be here a while so figured i better do.

did tried to find a beach that was near here, but it is just stoney and horrible. nevermind better beachs over the other side when i get there.
hung out at the tourist information place for a while, looking at all the different tours.

got some dinner and back to the hostel to chill. Spoke to irish bloke carl that is in the bed opposite, thats when he noticed the used condoms. not sure i am going to be able to look at the face of english man in the bed below me. haven't actually seen him yet. apparently he is working around here so, maybe i wont.

So carl was going to the bar, yes had to be a irish bar, i said i would come for one drink.
strange thing was i got there wearing flip flops (sorry thongs in australia) shorts and a sleeveless top. they wouldn't let me in. guess why. how irish is this, it was just the sleeveless top. the flip flops are fine and the shorts are ok, but not the sleeveless top. What the hell is that about. bloody irish. !!!! sorry mark roche !!!

so went in there, a band was about to start, they were pretty good, not see a band in a while, so maybe it was just that. nah they were pretty good, did 3 songs of there own, and then took requests. i thought it was strange they only had 3 songs of there own, not a great band i guess, but were able to take requests. only 1 they didn't do as they didn't know the words.

so had my beer listened to the band for a while, and got back to the hostel.