Newtown Festival weekend

Posted by Matt

Posted on November 15, 2007

Hi all my name is Matt and i am pleased to say im a friend of Brian, Joe, Jonny and Ian. I actually met Joe and Ian in Sri lanka and six hours later we were on a flight together to Bangkok! a few days later i then met Jonny and Brian when they met back up with Joe and Ian in Thailand. Brian and Jonny were great and took the time to sit down with me and give me loads of great places to see, stay and feed and water myself as i was heading off to Loas, Vietnam and Cambodia. They had just returned so were full of usefull info and all this within 2 mins of meeting them! great guys all four and a fast tracked friendship was formed! The crowd i travelled with very much appreciated the tips i had in my lonely planet especially when i pulled it out and said right we are off bowling at 1am in the morning!
anyhow long story short and about 2 months later we are all reunited again in the amazing cosmopolitan city that is Sydney and Brian has trusted me to upload to his blog so I will do my best to explain a great weekend which started with a txt asking me if I fancied a Tapas? well I love Tapas so I jumped at the chance so off we headed. The night started all civilised drinking red wine and swapping travelling stories and highlights as well as feeding our faces with some amazing food and ended at a foam party a good few hours later! Friday night not relishing the thought of drinking again we headed to the cinema caught an ok film and planned a night out for Saturday which for me ended at 6am and Brian gone 8am! anyhow Sunday all hungover me and Brian headed to the Newtown festival not really knowing what to expect and after going to the wrong station and taking a tour of Sydney we finally arrived, it was a blistering day and Brian went and got some alcapops in! ill never forgive him :) we had a great day chilling in the sun listening to local bands and like Brian said we will have to see one of the bands again as they were brilliant! i even caught Brian almost breaking into a dance in the corner of my eye! After the festival we headed to a local pub and chatted to some locals and generally had a great time after that we headed home on the train and popped into a local hostel bar to meet a friend of Brians :) ill let him explain that one

Foam Party night not recommended after a Tapas

all the boys posing!

Me and Brian were commenting on what a lovely place Aus is when we spotted this sign and said "look even the signs are friendly!" only later did we realise there was a cemetry behind the wall!

"one of u, one of me"

"one of u, One of me"

Just before the embarrassment of realising that I was on the cemetery wall