Get the Elton John reference?! Yes, that's right, I went to see Elton John on Sunday and it was a massive highlight of another absolutely amazing weekend in Melbourne. I've had some awesome adventures over the last few weeks and actually become a tourist and taken some photos, which is rather unusual for me.
So my life over the last 4 weeks starts with a girl called Maddie. We work together in a call centre in North Richmond and when we met we just clicked. After getting to know her, and her sense of humour, I decided that she is me but born on the opposite side of the world, and straight edged, subtle yet oh so vital differences! We both love Westlife, and boybands in general, have a random as hell sense of fun and like to push a joke to the absolute limit of bad taste. She invited me down to hang out on the Eastside of Melbourne since I had spent all my time in the North and West so a few weeks ago I get on the train and mission down to Oakleigh. Once there I had a whirlwind of meeting new people, her sister and boyfriend Bianca and Allan, her brother and his girlfriend Tyson and Bianca, not her boyfriend Charlie and her mates Adin and Niraj. Now I'm not quite sure how it happened but somehow we ended up going for a drive to a street called Pin Oak Court. Normal suburban street in the Southern suburbs it would seem, except that I have seen the street many, many times. Every night of my childhood at 5.35pm on BBC1 to be precise. Yes, they had only gone and taken me to bloody Ramsay Street! I ran around like a child and got Raj to take tourist photos of me, he seemed extremely impressed with this!
It was also Raj's birthday that weekend so we ended up drinking and cruising around Melbourne until the wee hours and the next morning, or late afternoon to be more accurate, it was decided I would be taken to the Dandenong Mountains to a viewpoint up there! On the way I was having a bit of a moan about wanting a picture of me with a kangaroo warning sign and lo and behold we turn the next corner and there is a kangaroo sign ripe for the photo taking! T'was fate and once again Raj was photographer and I had a new profile picture for Facebook... The viewpoint was stunning with lovely views all over the city and it was a beautiful way to round off an extremely memorable and happy weekend...
Since that weekend I have been variously taken to - the Melbourne F1 track and had my picture taken on the podium, an array of beaches both in the East and West, seen a pigeon sized dog, been to Frankston, Oliver's Hill, got pulled over by the police with Maddie at the wheel of an interlocked car, driven to the Mornington Peninsular, been up to Arthur's Seat, got confused at Dandenong Market and been driven god knows how many hundreds of kms! It has been the most amazing few weeks and the company has made it all the more special. I never expected to do much tourist stuff here but I've had immense amounts of fun being shown around by the locals.
Australia was always meant to be a very functional part of my travels, I came here to make money and save to be able to travel again. Obviously I was going to have a life and hang out with mates but there have been some very unexpected turns of events which has taken my happiness levels to new heights. And to see Elton John live... Just tops it off! I was sooooo close to him, like mere feet away from a living legend! My seat was on the floor 15 rows from the front and I was impressed with that. Then about half way through his three hour set we were allowed to go up to the front of the stage and hell yeah I was there with bells on! I've been saying a lot recently about how much I want to dance the night away and I dam straight I get my wish at the gig! I was on my own and was boogying away like my life depended on it. Oh, and when I left my mate Raj randomly turns up to give me a lift home, unexpected kindness always touches me and I was made up when he let me blast Elton in the car on the way home when we were giving a lift to some randoms!
I'm having an amazing time, and long may it continue. The people I have come to know are great, and even though Maddie is off on her own travels around Asia I feel so lucky that she brought me into her life and has shared the special people in it with me. The trajectory I have ended up on is scary, exciting and interesting, watch this space!
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