On the way to Melbourne

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To reassure everybody who was worried, here’s an update to the “Stick in the Face” file. The pain has gone, I’m no longer dizzy and unfortunately, all the beautiful colours adorning my face have withdrawn. Everything is much better. Furthermore, it appears that this strategically placed hit in the face has succeeded where years of visits to chiropractors, massage therapists, acupuncturists and the like had failed: for a week now, and I’ve no longer had a pain in the neck! A 7-year-old chronic pain apparently flew away, with the help of only one magical stick blow. At least, I would have gained that.

We have really left the Australian Bush for a week now. It took us 17 days to travel across the 3000 km separating Townsville from Melbourne. An average of 250 km per day for almost two weeks, and we took the liberty to stretch the last 100 km over a 5-day period to visit the Mornington touristic peninsula before we came to town.

To celebrate this expedition (and because people won’t stop harassing us to see our faces more often), we have decided to film our journey during these 3 weeks. A few days ago, in order to hype our production, you were enticed to watch the trailer (which, in fact, was material we had produced, but didn’t seem to find its way into the final cut) of our last short feature. Today, we are pleased to present you the final product, which is sensibly erratic. The goal wasn’t to tell a tale, but to give an idea of the constantly moving landscape and of the way of life for people travelling 250 km per day, every day. I hope you’ll like it, even if though it has a way different style from the trailer.

So we finally arrived at our final place of destination. At least, ONE destination. We have found a superb hostess to harbour us for our first month in the area. A little work in exchange for 3 extremely delicious meals and a marvellous housing in the most expensive town in all of Victoria. Many wonderful exchanges of knowledge, things learned every day and a very Japanese house where to spend our first days in Melbourne. You’ll hear more about it when we have stayed here a little longer.

Our first impression of Melbourne? A very trendy, super cultural, very musical and vibrating town. Hyper specialisation is what ensures survival for merchants. OK, you’ll say we’ve come a long way... We are still in the state of mind where a Video Club may and MUST sell microwaves and crock-pots in order to survive. In here, you can find shops entirely devoted to Russian dolls collectors, others sell more than a hundred different types of shoe shine and nothing else. So I’m pleased to tell you we no longer need to go to the post office to buy condensed milk.

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