Thunderstorms (Melbourne Style)

Wake up, look at phone: forecast 100% chance of thunderstorms. Get up, look out of windows: blue skies. And this was a trend that kept us on our toes for quite a few hours. But the UV from blasting sunlight ended up being a far bigger problem than any drop of rain.

It would have been a sin not to take full advantage of this weather while the clouds and the forecast were busy disputing who had authority, and we found a new (significantly softer) patch of grass to doze on. Truck engines, helicopters, construction hammers, horns, sirens, trams, birds, boats, all produced a sound scape far more soothing than any night in the outback could have done.

The watch of my travel companion had a bit of a dodgy clasp on the wristband, and this being a city, we thought getting a replacement should be easy. After trying in a jewellery store, almost walking into a "Duty Free" store in which we would have been the only non-chinese visitors, my companion started complaining that we'd have to find the Jewish quarter to get any decent service. A little more googling later, we did find a shop happy to sell us a leather and rubber armband, and gave us a reference of a shop that could replace the broken section on the current armband. 200m further, we got told that the watch was too heavy for the small clasp currently on there, got offered a better replacement clasp that fit like a glove, and we realised that we had also found our Jewish watchmaker shop.

The forecast eventually won the battle and the clouds started raining, so we hid ourselves in a cinema. The movie was calm and photogenic, but it turns out to be rather difficult to stay awake when half the characters were suffering of sleeping sickness and dozed permanently. From the lack of eggs in my face, I assume to have slept as quietly as the actors though, and the clouds had also regained some bladder control when we came out of the cinema.

We're not keen to see who will win tomorrows weather battle and will be heading back again. But I hopefully manage another trip down here before it gets too cold. So long!