Off to Melbourne

Tommorow, I head down to Melbourne. SOmething you probably deduced from the title of this post. I'll spend four nights in the capital of Victoria.

For everything you ever wanted to know about Australia's second largest city...might I reccomend the highly academic Wikipedia.

Melbourne is arguably the sports capital of the nation. Australian Rules Football is huge in Victoria, and Melbourne is home to 9 clubs in the AFL. The city is also home to the Melbourne Cricket Ground which is a world famous cricket venue. The city recently hosted the World Swimming Championships and of course tennis' Australian Open is held here. Needless to say, I think I'll find something to do.

Also, according to Lonely Planet, Melbourne is big on coffee. I'm big on coffee. Win, win. There's a chance I'll be wired enough to stay awake the entire seven hour bus ride home.

Of course, this time around I will be bringing both digital camera and digital camera connect-to-computer thingamajig so I can upload photos whilst down there.

What do you mean I'm not technologically inclined? What tipped that off?

Anyway, there should be reports coming from Melbourne in the next few days. If not, I return to Canberra on Monday (Sunday for most of you).

The hope of the weekend is to take in an Essendon Bombers AFL match. Normally I wouldn't support a team thats been so succesful over the years (they are tied for most AFL/VFL premierships with 16) but considering they finished 15th last season I guess the bandwagon is fairly empty. Plus, black and red is a sweet colour combo. They take on the Carlton Blues at the MCG on Saturday.

On the other hand, it does seem really weird saying "Go Bombers." Oh well.

Go Bombers,

Alan