tales from an ordinary world

1999-03-15

Visited exciting Portland. The smelter, powerlines, and all that sort of stuff. But that's not all ! I picked up a brochure about a nifty-sounding mob called the Wayward Bus touring company, who do these trips (one being along the Great Ocean Road from Melbourne to Adelaide), and you can pretty much get off (and back on) where and when you like. I might have to try this sometime...

Went to the local trendy restaurant for dinner. Country towns used to be all fish and chips and pubs and meat pies (and kangaroos and holden cars ? :), but not anymore - This place was so hip, the waitresses had these huge pepper shakers. It seemed like some sort of elaborate joke (that huge ceramic penis in A Clockwork Orange, perhaps ?).