Trip to MelbourneAuthor: jawapro
Date: Tue 07/04/2009 10:00 PM
Sorry about the lack of posts - but all last week I was in Melbourne at a training course for work.
As with last time, I stayed at the Oak on Collins - which is pretty flash for me. I'm not exactly an expert on hotels though - but it's nicer than the Coniki ones we stayed at in Europe. Cost more though I guess.
The training course itself was pretty good - except I got a migraine on the first day and ended up staggering to the hotel, checking in, and then wasting the rest of the evening trying to throw up. The rest of the week improved from there though.
I'd grabbed my mp3 player before I left, but hadn't grabbed my headphones - so once again, I had to buy another set. So I asked around, and discovered that there was an Officeworks just around the block from the training centre. So I went and got my headphones - but that's not the important part of the story. The important part is what I found when I went for the walk.
On one side of the street was an EB. It actually felt like the right place to find an EB - and I was actually thinking that before I saw it. Odd - but it felt like an EB street.
On the other side of the street was another store - called Minotaur.
This shop turned out to be a Geek-fest.
Heaps of comics, anime (blah), books, sci fi, fantasy, collectibles - pretty much heaven.
If only I was a millionaire....
For that matter - if only I had more space to store things....
Far and away the best collection of Star Wars books I've seen in a shop lately.
A bigger range of Dr Who stuff than the Dr Who museum in Cardiff!
The Minotaur.
Anyway - between the 2 shops, and a DVD sale at the local Target- I managed to come back with a few suvineers :)
The course finished early on Friday. I'd organized with work to have the weekend in Melbourne - so I'd be coming home on Sunday night.
I dragged my suitcase down the street to the train station and caught a train out to Traralgon to visit Ben, Bec, Mike, and Gabi. No real reason - it was just a good chance to catch up with them again.
The train was supposed to take 2 hours, and took 5 thanks to the electrical storm frying some signals. Good thing I started early. My mp3 player's batteries survived for about 4 and a half hours - so it could have been worse.
I spent the weekend hanging with Mike and family and generally relaxing. They took me off for a tour of the local market and shops and things (where I picked up even more stuff).
On Sunday afternoon I caught a train back into Melbourne, and managed to find a tram heading back to the Spirit terminal, and caught the ship back to Tassie in time for work on Monday morning.
Unfourtuantly on Sunday afternoon somewhere I came down with a cold - and I've been pretty under the weather since. Hopefully I get over it before Easter.
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