More to melbourne than meets the eye!

As you may have guessed, or read, Ive been in Melbourne for a little while!

And as you may have guessed, or read, Ive been slogging away working the bars at a winter festival which has traveled from Sydney to Melbourne, via bondi.

Ive been lucky, i must admit, in getting this work, and it been fun, if a little stressful and annoying, but i'm sure that is what ' real life' work is! However all of that of the negatives are forgotten when i think of the number of strange people i have met along the way, and the number of great people i have met along the way.. both being as amazing as each other. From street entertainers taking cover in our bars durign storms, to drunken people reliving them selves in their seats(nice!), they have been an odd few months since i arrived in Sydney.. and i don't think i would have it any other way!

One thing i do have to say is that people are idiots, stupid and moronic... some may say these are the same words, and i agree, i used them just for adding to the intensity of my announcement!

From people complaining that it was raining and that the ice was wet on an outdoor skate rink, to people asking what beer you have, when there is as stack of bottles and two taps in front of them... they decide to look up behind you at the ceiling like that is where the drinks are displayed!!!..... McDonald's effect is taking over of looking up at wats on offer!

And as some of you who know me can imagine the more moronic customers realized they have picked with he wrong guy... A scenario for you to imagine... A sign was put up advertising that we had hot alcoholic drinks for sale, mulled wine and hot toddy's... It was placed in front of the been taps but with the taps very visible and that we were a normal bar serving normal drinks. . The amount of people i got coming up saying, " ah... hot alcoholic drinks ... what are they?" i would say mulled wine, as it says on the sign... they would say, 'what else do you have?' i would reply with the statement of. ...' well its a bar.. all the normal things you find in a bar, as you can see..., we have beer, wine spirits... what would you like'? And then the amount of people that said...' all hot, hot beer? hot spirits?? It was amazing. Its like these people had never left their own kitchen. i would reply with a certain disbelief... 'what??' And they would say, 'well it says hot alcoholic drinks, are all your drinks hot?'

Ive never felt like curling up in a ball and hoping that all human life nolonger reproduces, or at least the people that visited our festival refrain from such activities!

I think Ive just done another blog which moans, and im sorry, but despite this moan Melbourne is great, Ive spent the days drinking coffee in the coolest coffee shops, exploring the coolest bars, and meeting great people, and i still have a day left which i plan to use to see the coast and to see yet more coffee shops!

Its odd traveling on your own again after so long with 2 mates always there, but when i get back to Sydney i have a feelign all will change again!! watch this space!

JONNY XX