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Detailed travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Detailed Travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Larry
2006-05-27 03:23:16

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room with a private bath and a large 19" Akai
color TV for $49 (December rate). There are vending machines in the
hallways for snacks, and the rooms were spotless white.
I walked around Darwin a bit in the afternoon, but the weather was so
miserable (no rain yet, but grey skies and high humidity) that I actually
stopped to see a movie ("Daylight", starring Sylvester Stallone) just to get
out of the weather.
Whenever I travel, I always make it a point to see a movie -- either an
American film, or a local film. While in Australia, I saw three films:
"Daylight" (in Darwin), "Dragonheart" (in Melbourne) and "The Ghost in the
Darkness" (in Adelaide). I actually wanted to see some other films (such as
"Fly Away Home", which I missed), but the times were always wrong.
Movies in Australia (in the large chains like Greater Union, Hoytts, and
Village Center) are around A$11.00, and (at least in the Greater Union
cinemas), if a movie is scheduled to start at 4:30pm, when 4:30 rolls
around, the room darkens (forcing you to pay attention) and you first get
treated to slides of advertisements, accompanied, interestingly enough, by a
matching soundtrack. After the slides finish, the film ads begin (first
product advertisements, then the coming-attraction trailers). It's a good
15 minutes before the movie actually starts.
In the late afternoon, I stopped at the Darwin Youth Hostel to book some
tours for the Cairns area, where I'd be visiting next. I decided on a 4WD
tour to the Daintree Rainforest, and a tour out to the Great Barrier Reef.
For the reef trip, I booked my tour with Quicksilver, which had come
recommended by some people I talked to.
Having a Youth Hostel card is always a good idea when you travel. Youth
hostels are always the cheapest places to stay, and there's no age limit to
them. Most are ...

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