arrived in Mebourne at 7am to be greeted by grey gloomy skies and constant drizzly rain - not what I travelled 12 thousand miles for. After trying to stay awake in vain, nodded off at my hotel until early evening and completely missed the Formula One `behind the scenes` tour at the track. Met up with my old buddy Matt for a quick drink in teh evening, and discovered that the old sod has gone and gotten himself engaged, good work fella...
After a lot more sleep, met up with Matt for day one of the GP with a hearty breakfast, Off to the track where Michelle, Michael and Steve soon appeared to complete our intrepid group. I won`t go into too much detail about the 4 days at the track, seeing as I`ve done it all twice before ( see photos) - but undoubted highlights where the `dancing` performances of the highly talented XXXX Angels, a British win for Jenson Button in the feature race, and a free concert by The Who on the final night (good for a bunch of old geezers). Also squeezed in a night of pampering at the Gold Class cinema, barely avoided nodding off during the very odd movie `Duplicity`, but at least he food was good.
We had a major drama on the Sunday, when Matt lost his wallet, looked like a pickpocket had struck. Amazingly, an honest local saw it fall to the floor from his bag, and called him to return it - so all`s well that ends well. All too soon, it was time to go for a brief fry at the beach in Broome, tough life...