Round up for the week

That's week #3 out of the way now - only 11 to go then it's back to the Sydney bumming life :)

We also went to see Pirates of the Caribbean #3 this week. It was a surprisingly crap movie experience, but a better than expected movie somehow. I have to admit I wasn't expecting much, so I was pleasantly surprised by this at-times-random, very light-hearted, romp-y kind of movie. It looked like they were all having an absolute ball making the movie, and there were some great special effects. However, the cinemas here at crappo. For starters, you have your seat allocated when you buy your ticket (figure that out, especially when there are no seats allocated on plane flights so you have to race to get a good seat there - they've sure got their priorities sorted out there...). There are also "extra special good" seats, in the middle of the cinema, which cost a few pounds more each just so you don't have to turn your head that extra degree or two. Then apparently it's necessary to have an intermission between the ads/trailers and the actual movie!! So in reality you can turn up a half hr after the movie start time, and you could walk in during the "intermission", with the lights bright enough to find your pre-allocated seat, and sit down for the actual movie. All very wierd... So seeing this one movie ended up costing us about Au$50!! What a joke hey...

Anyway that's enough whinging for now, on to something nice - Chilean wine (that's wine from Chile). It's surprisingly good! In a desparate bid to try some wine over here that's not Australian (which has got to make up at least half of the supermarket wine stocks, not to mention restaurants wine lists...), we're trying all these wierd and wonderful locations. Chile's been the best so far, for sauvignon blanc and also some good merlot and cab sav, and I had some good South African red too surprisingly. Argentinian white has been no good when we tried it. The first bottle I bought over here was just some M&S-brand bottle, which I realised when I got home was good old South Australian red!!

I just booked tickets to see Damien Rice in Brighton in July. It's on a Saturday night so we'll take the train down there and spend the weekend there and check it out - it's only an hour on the train apparently.

Since we're not going down south for the weekend, we're going to pack a lot into the weekend - Mark's got a plan for tomorrow to go drinking on a boat on the Thames and check out some other stuff, then on Sunday we'll catch a train up to Oxford or somewhere and check it out just for the day.

Oh, and it's now officially summer - yay! Now if only someone would tell the weather to improve...