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Serving Girl : That’ll be $21

Me: $21? Here
<hands over $21 and gets tray to leave>

Serving Girl: Thanks

Serving Girl 5 seconds later: Excuse me, its $23.50

Me: Excuse me?

Serving Girl: (looking at me like I’m some hitherto unknown toe scum) Its $23.50, you only gave me $21 (slowly and carefully in case her mental gymnastics  prove too much for my feeble brain)

Me: Oh right, (fishing around for extra $2.50 for the sludge from the bain marie of death) (now looking at her with more than mild distaste)

Serving Girl (still speaking very slowly and clearly) You can have the receipt

I would have loved to tell her to shove it up her ample arse, but left it with a disgruntled mumbled and shuffled off unsteadily to consume  my exorbitantly priced sludge. Bring back Spirit 3 with the buffet of death – at least I didn’t have to pay extra for diarrhoea.

So here I am sitting on the Spirit of Tasmania once more, feeling more than a little bit sore after an exhilarating climb on Sunday and a “quick” run to finally summit Mt Anne and earn me a few peakbagging points. Somewhat quesy due to crap food for which I paid an unholy sum for, and that peculiar stink of the Spirit of Tasmania, my guess being industrial cleaner mixed with Legionairres disease in the air conditioner and puke ground into cheap carpet.
A little sad at leaving Tasmania again. This quick little job reminded me just how much I enjoy spending time on this little Island. I think, plan A is now to finish med school on the mainland, and possibly initial vocational training and then bugger off down to Tas – which would work out great if I have a Bonded Place or and MRBS (Unlikely) as almost all of Tas is considered ‘Rural’ or an area of unmet need.

so part of the idea of going down to dance in tasmania once again was the chance to go walkabout as well!

Wombats at Narawntapu National Park

Forest and Creek in the Styx, where there the tallest flowering hardwoods in the world

Russell Falls at the Mt Field National park

the Chasm at the Tasman Penninsula, some of the highest sea cliffs in Australia.

Logging and burning near Fortescu Bay

Somewhere along the Tasman Peninsula

While down in Melbourne I was lucky enough to meet up with a consultant anaesthetist to have a chat about the medschool interview process as he was/is on the panel.  After we chat for a bit, he asks if I’d like to scrub up and wander around a bit.
The answer being yes, oh god yes (conditional that I don’t faint) I get all scrubbed up and booty covers and hat thing and toddle off around the theatres. It was great.

So, I made it back. By a stroke of luck, apparently it seems that there weren’t any economy class seats left so I got to fly business class which really is the way to travel.

Melbourne 2005

They say a blog is like a baby penguin (insert small fluffy cute animal of choice; walrus, marmot, kitten), the first few days is like love. You lavish attention on your blog/penguin, but soon the novelty wears off and it is abandoned like so many other blogs/penguins.

- the joy of bouncing. Tuileries, Paris

- Mann, Hund und Fahrrad in Berlin. (Me trying to be Cartier-Bresson)

the Glarner Alps from Mollis, Switzerland

Sunset from Zurich

Merry Go Round at the Tuileries Jardin, Paris

La Tour Eiffel Nuit