Sunday, August 28, 2005

Ballarat. (Steve)

Occured to me that I haven't written an entry on this for ages (apart from all the pictures). Shame really that owing to the fact we live in the 'real world', in terms of working anyway, we dont get to go to as many places. The only we've done since the last post was a trip to Ballarat on a Friday off, with our Canadian friend Jennifer.

Ballarat is an old gold rush town, complete with all the cheesy but fun tourist places like Sovereign Hill where the pictures below are from. We failed to find any gold but Sian and Jen did get to make thier own lumpy candles, so the 120km drive each way was worth it. Only joking, it was a fun day out, pity that for safety reasons you cant go in the actual mines, only ones they made for us tourists. If it was in Asia, then we'd have had our miners hats on (without working light) and been right down the bottom in danger of drowning. I really miss the complete disregard for personal safety that you get in some places.

Oh well, feel compelled to mention how its winter here still yet we're getting 24 degrees C most days at the moment, roll on summer!!!!!!

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