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It’s been over a week, though things are slow in the land of Jeremy’s blog at the moment. Last Thursday, while I still had the luxury of being on holidays from TAFE, me and my mate Chris took the train down to Warrnambool for the day. Mainly because I had a free V/Line voucher to use.

So first is first, I had to get up at 7am, which is remarkably early for me these days, probably the earliest I’ve been up since I had to leave for Sydney earlier this year. Though I was able to repeat this effort one day for TAFE and actually get there on time, but not for the other day of TAFE this week. None the less, I got down to yee ol’ Spencer Street station (now officially known as Southern Cross… Southern where?) at 8:30 and the train left on time at 8:49.

Was good to sit back and enjoy the trip, until we got closer to Warrnambool and found the rain was starting to set in. Just over three hours later and we were in Warrnambool at midday. So we walked around looking for lunch, dismissing various pubs and cafés until we found a pub we liked. After lunch (which for me consisted of a steak sandwich with chips and a few drinks along side it), we walked up to the visitor information centre, located conveniently a good walk out of town at the Flagstaff Hill maritime museum. We decided we’d head down and have a shot at minigolf, only to find the place submerged in water and subsequently closed. So after photographing some geese, we took a bus back into town (it just happens that we turned up at a bus stop just in time for the hourly bus).

With two and a half hours to spare we just walked around town for a while and kicked back to some pancakes which turned out to be rather good amidst all the rain and cold weather. We got back to the station well in time for the 17:40 train back to Melbourne, kicking back for another 3 and a half hours. It was mostly too dark to see anything by that stage though we had a little for dinner from the buffet car.

Got back into Spencer Street in time for the 9:38pm train to Box Hill. I was truly knackered by the time I got home though it’s good to get out of Melbourne every once in a while.

Photos online in my gallery as well as flickr.