Hobbit
Trip Start
Mar 01, 2006
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Trip End
Jul 09, 2006
Where I stayed
Hobart, Australia
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
We needed to go to the hire place today to ask whether we could extend the hire - due back on Wednesday, so we would have to super rush everything to do it all in that time. Anyway, we decided to be logical: a week's hire is about $600, so we decided that for only 2weeks worth of hire, we could buy the car off him. And so, for $1100 which is about 500quid, we now own a car, which we can take back to Australia, which we hope we can sell at the end to make a profit, because I think Thom is skilled in that part of life. He's not sure of his own skills, but I know he's brilliant at flogging useless junk to fools, so this should be no different!
The car only cost $50 to register - that means transfer the ownership, and get the 3rd party insurance we need to drive the car. There really is no point getting comprehensive cover - it would cost about 3x the value of the car. We did think it was a good idea, however, to take out the breakdown cover. Not only is it a good thing to have when the car breaks in the middle of Taz, but it's a good USP when we want to sell it.
Going to mod the car a bit tomorrow with ducktape - seal the windows, tape the bumpers properly, replace the wipers etc etc, which should be a lot of fun!
On to more important matters - I won the table tennis in the end 11-8, so I was pretty chuffed, saying as Thom won about the first 10games we played! We grabbed a bite to eat in Launy, then headed down the freeway to Hobbit to catch elves & other funny creatures. During the 200km journey we stopped at a side thing like they have in France, where there are picnic tables & toilets etc because we were hungry. We only had a jar of jam and a bit of bread left with us, so we ripped off some card to use as a plate, and spread the jam with my penknife. Delicious!! Seriously though, it was really tasty.
Arrived in the much busier Hobart at about 5pm, grabbed some T, and got a settled in. The hostel, called The Pickled Frog looks Ok - not as big as Devil's Playground, but it's right in the centre, so that's probably why. But, it does have shops near by, and most importantly cheap interweb, so all is ok! We're pretty knackered now after the F1, early morning and long drive, so I'm probably going to be intellectual and read The Da Vinci Code, and Thom will probably be vulgar and coarse, and read Zoo or some other tastless magazine like Nuts. DISGUSTING!
Comments
attention
me? attention seeking??? i dont try!!!! i succeed!!!lmao
Re: attention
Max, dear. You don't need to post messages on a public website just to talk to yourself. Like many things, that kind of thing can be left to the confines of your own room... Wink wink say no more.
CAR !
TOM RIMMER, I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU HAVE BOUGHT THAT CAR AND ACTUALLY HAD YOUR NAME PUT ON AN OFFICIAL DOCUMENT BELONGING TO IT !!!!!!!!!!!!
WHEN YOU HAD THE AUDACITY TO TURN YOUR NOSE UP AT DAD'S OLD ROVER FOR FREE
DON'T YOU BE EXPECTING ANYTHING 'FLASH ' TO DRIVE AROUND IN WHEN YOU COME HOME WHEN I CAN NOW SEE THAT YOUR PRIDE IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS I ONCE THOUGHT !
MUM DRIVER OF A RATHER LOVELY CAR ! ( WHICH YOU WILL NEVER GET BEHIND THE WHEEL OF !
X
know wot i mean
know wot i mean
say no more say no more, wink wink nudge nudge
personally i believe himthem buying the car is awsum!! mite teack thom 2 drive properly, rather than simply relying on the power of a car that is far 2 gud for him.
BEN - its ur job 2 teach him 2 drive properly!! n not like his usual chav self!!lol
JAM BUTTIES
jam butties!!! not had a jam buttie for soooo long, mmmmmmmm! so u bought a car, i was wondering how long it would take you both!! im liking your mums comment too thom, shall b rather amusing to see u keeping up with ben n max once u get home to your 'flash' car hee hee
love u both lots
xxx
Dear lego man and turgid tommy
Oh how lame it is at old smeggers with out tom mom bom scootching in at 4. Its so depressing having read the whole blog, I want to go to ozz and poke dangerous animals with sticks and drive a rusty shoe box with wheels around.I want to be there so much so I will row accross in my pea green boat. Anyhoo im off on my snow-a-ma-boarding adventure in 2 weeks to the land of icebeetles and snowfrogs that is old monty blonk (mt blanc) no where near as good but ill rock my jealous self to sleep knowing im trying to be as cool.....oh how I hate you both, thom enjoy the tales of the lost rememberer, ben give thom a poke for me. Have a good day. Ben of the sears variety.
mother!!!
mother! we have bort this car cos it was a bargain, wer gonna pimp it today, and we rekn wen we come to sell it we could make at least a couple of hundred pounds out of it, it was serviced the week before we hired it, weve taken out a years breakdown recovery anywer in aus, and we have 3rd party insurance, we couldnt get anything else, it cost 2 weeks rental to buy, made sense.