{"id":549,"date":"2016-10-29T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T10:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irwinarmstrong.com\/bigtrip\/?p=549"},"modified":"2016-10-31T11:39:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T11:39:26","slug":"291016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irwinarmstrong.com\/bigtrip\/travel\/291016\/","title":{"rendered":"29\/10\/16 A wee break from Triptime."},"content":{"rendered":"

29th and Maggie’s foot is no better. She limped to bed and is hardly able to put her foot down this morning.
\nTime to get to know Melbourne Royal Hospital.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Good thing if there is one is that we have no issues being seen. Their Medicare system has a reciprocal arrangement with the good old NHS so once in the system we are off to a flying start.
\nMixed blessing.<\/p>\n

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\nBecause triage judges her as low priority we settle in for a long wait. This ends up being about 2 hours and of course it is only when I go to get some breakfast for us that we finally get in.
\nThe staff have a really good attitude friendly, helpful and no fuss but the minute Maggie mentions Cancer then they obviously need to make sure they check everything out. X-ray shows nothing so next is transfer to short stay unit and down for a CT scan.<\/p>\n

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Well, all good so we get crutches a letter to give to a GP and on our way.
\nWhether the rest or the Ibuprofen or whatever Maggie is much better and so we ditch the crutches and go down to St. Kilda.<\/p>\n

We have our tea at a restaurant by the roadside and as it is Halloween every other car is full of Ghoules and Vampires.<\/p>\n

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It’s a beautiful evening so hopefully the good weather has arrived.<\/p>\n

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We head to the harbour to see the penguins ?. They come ashore at dusk.<\/p>\n

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Well it is a tourist event, the penguins are badly outnumbered by the hundred or so people.<\/p>\n

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They do arrive and we watch them arrive out of water and walk about for a while before heading to Luna Park.<\/p>\n

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\"dsc03246\"This is a cross between an amusement park and a social space for people to meet. Today it is the venue for a massive Zombie gathering. Must be Halloween ? ?.<\/p>\n

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The city has a strange mixture of Ghouls and people in their gladrags. Women dresses and heels ? men in dinner suits. It is Derby ? day at the Melbourne races. This year black dresses seem to be De rigueur.<\/p>\n

Most of the city is full of life but some of the bars are dead.<\/p>\n

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The pubs are full of people celebrating success or drowning the sorrows of their bets.
\nSaturday night in Melbourne is as noisy as you would expect.
\nFor us back to the world in the clouds and prep for departure to Sydney tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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