13 DAYS OF TRAVELLING

Here we are again is the 15th of July just after my 26th birthday, I just finished to celebrate it and here we are again and other lockdown is happening, time to pack everything quick and leave Melbourne ASAP. Fifth time that I’m escaping from a lockdown, I used to call my post “travel” but most of them aren’t a real planned travel I just to and advantage on the lockdown situation to travel that’s it actually.So this time again everything was going well in Melbourne I just had a lockdown break in June been in Sydney and Canberra a bit of winter vacation was great and now I just wanted to focus on working till Christmas but nothing it was impossible. On the 15th of July the state of Victoria declared an other lockdown. So I just tried to escape as much as I cloud, trying to keep working and have a normal life.

5TH TIME ESCAPING FROM A LOCKDOWN SINCE I’M IN AUSTRALIA

DAY 1 – Thursday 15.07.2021

( Night at: YHA Central Hobart )

( Tullamarine airport waiting for my Qantas flight to Hobart )

Thursday I woke up that I already knew it that we were going into a lockdown in fact the night before I already pack my luggage so when I woke up I just had to do the last things I went to the club to take my things and then I went to the bank and I prepare everything and left few things in the hostel because I can’t carry all my staff with me and then I want for the lockdown announcement which they did it at 5 pm and I wait as well for the message of m manger because I supposed to work at the night. Once I receive the confirm that we were going in lockdown at midnight I just order an Uber to the airport, thinking to go to Brisbane to visit my friend Laura and enjoy the good weather but unfortunately there were no more flight available or just over expensive and it was a totally chaos, the only chance was looking at the Qantas website waiting for a flight that I might be available updating the page, so I did it and I found the flight to Hobart available, so I just panicked and I tied to buy it, it was very expensive honestly but I didn’t wanted to go back to the Hostel so I decided to buy and try to go to Hobart. At 8:30 pm I took the flight which landed at 9:45 pm, from there I took and Uber to the YHA Central Hostel.

DAY 2 – Friday 16.07.2021

( Night at: YHA Central Hobart )

( Hobart waterfront, Tasmania )

I woke up early, happy that I escape from the lockdown and then I went to the groceries to buy something to eat and I stayed all day in the bedroom relax and chill, try to understand what to do, if I could work in Hobart or not and when I realised that was impossible work in Hobart I decided to leave the day after because Saturday it’s aways a good to make money so I bought the flight to Adelaide. Than I went a little bit around Hobart trying to enjoy the last night there so I went out for a dinner in a nice place called The Lounge by Frogmore Creek to eat some oysters which I think that in Tasmania are the best, it was really lovely been out for a dinner and than I come back to the Hostel to sleep. I didn’t wanna do a lot in Hobart because is really cold and I’ve been there just three months ago and I already visited everything basically.

DAY 3 – Saturday 17.07.2021

( Night at: YHA Central Adelaide )

( Fling from Hobart to Adelaide with Qantas )

I woke at 7 am I got ready and I went to take bus around 8 am that takes me to the airport, I did the breakfast at the airport and then at 10:20 am landed in Melbourne at 11:35 am I landed in Melbourne but just for a transfer which it was the only options and then I took the second plane at 12:35 pm and I landed in Adelaide 1:25 pm. I took the bus to the YHA Hostel which I did the check in and I went straight to sleep all noon till 6 pm that I got ready to work all night.

DAY 4 – Sunday 18.07.2021

( Night at: YHA Central Adelaide )

( The view from the window in the YHA Hostel, Adelaide )

I woke up very in late totally destroyed and a bit in hangover due to the long night of the day before but I got ready and I went to work at 7:30 pm, I just grab something to eat on the way and that’s it ready for an other night of work.

DAY 5 – Monday 19.07.2021

( Night at: YHA Central Adelaide )

( Bouquet of flowers, Adelaide )

I tried to wake up not too late so I went to the CBD I did a bit of groceries and I little walk around then I come back to the Hostel to sleep a bit more ad then go to work again even if the situation looks a bit tense because there were rooms that the city could stat a lockdown so I got very scared but I thought that it could be only for few days, so I went to work but at mid night the club closed and I thought that the lockdown will be only for three days so I decided to wait to work in the weekend and relax a bit in the days. After work I come back to the hostel happy to rest a bit, even if obviously I wanted to work to get as much money as I could.

DAY 6 – Tuesday 20.07.2021

( Night at: Laura’s house, Fortitude Valley )

( On the flight to go to Brisbane from Adelaide )

I woke up at 9 am totally relaxed thing about staying in Adelaide and do few days of lockdown there and go back for the weekend to work, but as soon as I told the plan to my mum the announce the lockdown for one week so I got afraid and I immediately bought a ticket to go to Brisbane, because one week of lockdown it could be too much so I pack everything I left the Hostel I took the bus to the airport and at 3:30 pm I depart with Jetstar and I landed at 6:20 om at the Brisbane airport, 3:30 pm with Jetstar and landed at 6:20 pm at the Brisbane airport, I went to take the sky train to the Central Station and from there I went to Jumbo restaurant where my friend Laura she’s working, I eat something there and then we went to her house we ordered few burgers and then we went to sleep because she has to work the day after.

DAY 7 – Wednesday 21.07.2021

( Night at: Laura’s house, Fortitude Valley )

( Fortitude Valley, Brisbane )

I woke up pretty late and I decide to go fo a walk around the city, since it was long time that I wasn’t there, I went to the supermarket so I could comeback home and cook something for the lunch which I waited for Laura to finish to work, we had a lunch together and than she had to go to work again and I decided to go to Gold Coast for an audition at the club where I worked in the past so around 5 pm I took the train to go to surfer paradise I did the audition around 8 pm and than I took immediately the train to come back to Brisbane at Laura’s house to sleep.

DAY 8 – Thursday 22.07.2021

( Night at: The bunk hostel, Gold Coast )

(Lunch at Hellenika Restaurant, Brisbane )

I woke up at 10 am with Laura she was going to work and I stayed at home arranging my things and get ready to go to Gold Coast for the weekend to work, but before I went to lunch at the Hellinika Restaurant which is something that I really wanted to do it from a long time, at the Calille Hotel the is really famous in the city. After I come back home I eat something with Laura and I took the train to Gold Coast, I arrive around 6 pm I did the check in at the hostel then I went for an aperitif with Mercedes my friend that’ve meet in Melbourne, it was so nice see her again and after I thought that I could go to work but I receive a message that I couldn’t so I just went back to the Hostel to sleep and relax.

DAY 9 – Friday 23.07.2021

( Night at: The bunk hostel, Gold Coast )

( Enjoying the summer vibes at the pool at The Island, Gold Coast )

I woke up kind of early in the morning I did anything because the weather wasn’t the best in the noon and I rest to work in the night. Before work I went to drink something with Jada a friend of Francesca that I’ve met her in Melbourne, we ha two drinks and than I went to work. It was a very bad night so I’ve decided to not come back and take those days to rest.

DAY 10 – Saturday 24.07.21

( Night at: The bunk hostel, Gold Coast )

( Sunset in Surfer Paradise )

I spent the day at the swimming pool then I walk a bit around Surfers Paradise since the weather was very good seems almost summer. I relaxed a bit and than I went to watch the sunset which it was incredible than I got ready to go for a dinner at Tropic Restaurant in Burleigh Heads with Francesca, Ana and other guys than we went at the Nineteen at the Star and later I come back home totally wasted and tired.

DAY – Sunday 25.07.2021

( Night at: Laura’s house, Fortitude Valley )

( Enoteca 1896, Brisbane )

I was totally in hangover so I pay an extra night just to sleep till 2 pm because I was very hangover and than I took the train to go back to Brisbane to Laura where we chill a bit together and than we got ready to go out for a dinner since she wasn’t working so we decided to eat Italian and we went to the restaurant where I worked before the pandemic in March 2020, at the Enoteca 1896 in south Brisbane. Once we arrived we met Desiree her brother and other Italians which those two they were with us in Mundubbera during the farm work so we decided to eat with them and we added an extra chair, it was a very nice dinner honestly. After we went to the Beats and on Sunday the do the Drag Queen shows which is alway nice and for me was ages without being in a club due to the Covid – 19 than we come back home not too late.

DAY – Monday 26/07/2021

( Night at: Laura’s house, Fortitude Valley )

( Kangaroo point, Brisbane )

I woke up kind of in late and very stressed and disappointed regarding the Covid situation waiting to go back in Melbourne, so during the day I haven’t done much just cleaning a bit and organising my things. After in the evening I went to do an aperitif with Erika at Cellare Bar near Laura’s house in the Valley and than I come back before Laura finished to work so we eat something together and than we went to sleep.

DAY – Wednesday 28.07.13

( Flying from Gold Coast to Melbourne with Jetstar )

I woke up kind of early around 9 am I got ready and I arrange all my luggage then Laura she went at work after we did the breakfast together and I went to the Kangaroo point to do the last round around Brisbane and see one more time the city and then I come back at home I took all my staff I went to Jumbo restaurant Laura’s work place and I give back the house key to she and say goodbye. After from the Central Station I took the train till Gold Coast which I have the flight to Melbourne at 17:55 pm with Jetstar, one I arrived in the airport I eat and drink something at the Blackstone Cafe and Bar than I catch the flight and I landed in Melbourne at 20:20 pm, from the airport I took the bus to The Village Hostel where I did the check in again and I went back to my room 401 after ten days around Australia trying to escape from lockdowns. I had the dinner with my room mate we ordered pizzas and we stayed in the common area to eat and chatting a bit later on I called my mum and then I went to sleep.