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DON'T
TRY THIS AT HOME;
"Bikinin
Shelias, The Gold Coast and the Surfers Paradise"
Ok, so we
flew to the Gold Coast around 2pm...about 1 hour's flight north
of Sydney, to the Surfers paradise district, which is a cross between
Venice Beach and Miami...and could easily be mistaken for GIRLS
GONE WILD Australia...we checked into our hotel around 5pm and then
Chapple and I went walking around for like 3 hours before we decided
to get some chinese food. today was good friday so, not only were
alot of the booze places closed, but there were so silly, quite
suspect puritan liquor laws in effect; we could only get booze if
we ate, and we couldn't take anything off the premises. So had to
sneak the beers back to our hotel...
Then we found a tax free Wine emporium, but we needed our passport
and flight tix...so we went back to the hotel, where we bumped into
Rusty and Daddyo...Rusty had his stuff with him and that saved us
a trip to the 14th floor...so we all walked over and bought 2 bottels
of Australian Merlot...then came the catch....the woman who sold
it to us, a very attractive Japanese woman, said the law says that
we cannot open the wine until we leave the country. we said, "sure"...wink
wink, nudge nudge, right? Well, she made rusty sign some paperwork
SWEARING he wouldn't open the bottles, took down his personal info
and all that stuff!
here's sample of the paper:
Wine Paradise
shop 4, 3171 Gold Coast Highway
Surfer's Paradise, Queensland QLD 4217
(07) 5538 8622
IF I DO NOT TAKE THE GOODS OUT OF AUSTRALIA IN 30 DAYS, I WILL CONTACT
WINE PARADISE BY NOON THE NEXT WORKING DAY THAT THE GOOD WERE NOT
EXPORTED. I WILL NOT INTERFERE WITH OR BREAK THE SEAL ON THE WINE
UNTIL THE RECIET HAS BEEN CHECKED OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY. I AM AWARE
THAT THE TAXATION ADMINISTARATION ACT MAY PENALIZE ME $5000 AND/OR
IMPRISONMENT FOR UP TO 12 MONTHS FOR MAKING A FALSE DECLARATION
TO MISUSE THIS PRODUCT. I DECLARE ALL THIS INFORMATION I GAVE TO
WINE PARADISE TO BE CORRECT AND I WILL COMPLY WITH THE CONDITIONS
OF THIS DECLARATIONS.
SIGN HERE:______________________________
We went staright to the hotel, opened both bottles and got terribly
innebriated. After that, Chapple and I went back to our hotel room
and caught the whole movie, PRETTY IN PINK, which was fun cause
I hadn't seen it in ages. Then, around 2am, we went out (Chapple
and I) and found a pub that was still open and drank some Cascade
pints.
And this morning (saturday), we found a small cafe and had a great
bacon eggs and toast breakfast. I was so hungry and the food wasn't
half bad..I swear, after a week of british food (2 weeks ago), this
was like eating Wolfgang Puck's food. And the bacon was REAL bacon,
not that MANICALLY SALTED ham that England passes for bacon! And
the eggs weren't super greasy and the taost was thick and WARM!
Nice...well, gonna go for a swim now (it's 11am saturday)...we drive
1 1/2 hours to Byron Bay at 4pm and play the festival tonight at
7pm, right after G Love and Special sauce and right before Jimmy
Vaughn. Thy pool (and thy blody mary) calleth....cheers...from Surfers
Paradise...
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Mike Randle
mike@lovewitharthurlee.com
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