Sunday, October 21, 2007

Friday 5 October 2007. Day 46. Melbourne, Welcome Mercure Hotel.



Breakfast, spot of shopping at Central Mall, Hardware Alley for lunch again (nice brushetta, rocket and parmesan salad, and Moroccan lamb salad. Then we headed back to the Art Gallery where we saw some of the free exhibitions, such as Oceanic Art. Saw a band doing sound checks for that night and decided we may come back later for a listen. Bought some more books on Japanese art.

Went and caught the circle tram, which is free and goes all round the cbd, stopping at some of the major attractions. We travel about two thirds of the way round before jumping off near the launderette where we dropped our laundry so we could collect it and head back to the hotel.

That evening, we headed back down to the Art Gallery to watch “The Emergency” perform, whilst quaffing salmon bagels, brownies and wine! We watched as the local crusty dreadly, complete with long kilt and black pumps wound his way around the room, waving his arms mystically at the walls as he went, in a silent winding dance, which made sense only to him, and no doubt involved him absorbing energy from the walls or some such nonsense! We watched surreptitiously, so as not to feed his attention craving and noticed that his crusty girlfriend also joined in, mimicking his mystic hand waving.

After some technical hitches, the band finished and we went out to eat at Hardware Alley again. A balcony table was prepared especially for us in the window of a small restaurant as it had just begun to rain and the only other table had only partial cover. Food was ok – starter better than main.

We went home past the “Sonic Manipulator” in his tinfoil suit with lights attached, playing music to the incredulous crowd!

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