I'm working in Derry for the next couple of weeks. I don't usually work outside of Dublin, but duty calls and all that. I feel like a travelling salesman. I'm staying in a shithole travelodge (room nothing like photos), I'm away from my comforts (i.e. Donna), and I'm tired from the drive up this morning (got up at 5.20am, poo) and working all day.

However, no matter where you are, its easy to make it feel like home. So I've bought 2 days of wifi from bitbuzz, and just got some dominos delivered. And there seems to be millions of channels on the telly.


Still, makes you appreciate your own home.

Was going to write an insightful passage on our journey from sydney to sydney so far. But instead, enjoy a chat which sums most of it up. BTW, myself and brian are only joking when we are racist, so don't be offended. It's for our own personal comedy enjoyment.

6:44 PM Brian: tomas

me: brian

Brian: I hear Melbourne is beautiful in the fall

6:46 PM me: i hear you're a dick

w00t

6:47 PM on the end of the great ocean road now

Brian: is it fun, it it AMAAAZZIINNGGG

me: will travel back the coast to melb tomorrow

it

is

AMAAAAZZZING

you're reading my mind

Brian: wonderful

whats melbourne like??

6:48 PM me: melbournes cool

did some city sightseeing on friday but everyhtinh was closed because of some religious holiday or something

its a nice compact city

more "european" than sydney

6:49 PM Brian: eeehh yuck I hate the jews and their religious holidays its like hello already

me: we stayed in cooes in st kildas

6:50 PM Brian: Yeah I've heard its more cafe lifestlye

me: a nice bohemic area full of ecclectic bars and cafes

WEIRD

Brian: ecclectic

me: yes. ecclectic

Brian: alternative

me: its a word

Brian: tres chic

me: ineed

tres

tres.

hookers too

lots of em

Brian: fabulous,

sweet

6:51 PM me: hanging out on corners

Brian: good ones

??

did you sample

me: and we think we saw 2 gay old men pick each other up in their trucks

but can't be sure

the hookers were not too bad.

but still hookers

6:52 PM Brian: wonderful, what did you think of Canberra??

me: pfft

didn't do much. went to parliament and war memorial.

memorial was cool and big

6:53 PM we watched some parliament meeting too, it was interesting.

Brian: any shouting or 'here heres'

me: a few yays. and a good few nays

then they called in the bells.

not sure what that is, but i think they had to vote.

6:54 PM Brian: yay

me: milne was trying to pass some 50 million dollar limit on infrastructure thing

maybe it was "aye"

6:58 PM Brian: sounds like the funs being had

me: its grand

6:59 PM port fairy is a lovely little area

packed with weekenders and small.

it was 30 degrees today, and we should get good weather for the drive back to melb tomorrow too.

7:00 PM then off to tassie on tuesday. w00t.

7:01 PM Brian: sweet as. I got a mail actually off the tassies we were travelling and two of them are prob coming to Sydney for Anzac weekend so that will be cool to see them again

7:02 PM me: nobody cares, but whatever floats your boat.