Bar Hopping

Neil is in town for the next month doing training materials for the client. He’s a Canadian based out of the New York office. We went out for sushi dinner on Saturday night at the first sushi restaurant we saw on Swanston Street. They had sushi on a conveyor belt and they were pretty good. The salmon was fresh and tasty. After dinner, we met up with Joe and Andrew for a beer at an outdoor bar. It was starting to get chilly out, but I had a hoody on so I was able to keep warm. Joe and Andrew decided to go back to the apt. because they were tired at midnight. Normally, I would follow right behind them since it was way past my bedtime. But I had a nap during the day and I wanted to check out the scenes.

Neil had done some research on bars he thought were interesting, so we started walking downtown. Melbourne is all about bars with themes. First, we went to the Loop, which had video game images projected onto the walls. The people were friendly at the bars and they would randomly start conversations with us. I think one guy was Russian and he had a thick accent which made it hard to understand what he was saying. He was a sprayer so I had to keep wiping his spit off my arm every minute or so…gross.

Washroom at Croft

We met a group of locals that invited us along on their bar hopping trip. The second place we went to had death metal music upstairs, which was basically loud terrible noise. We didn’t stay too long and went to Croft. This is a medical theme bar that is hidden in a zigzag alley. It was scary and the thought of being murdered and chopped up into little pieces did crossed my mind. This place had test tubes in display cases around the bar. The bathroom upstairs looked like an operating room equipped with a hospital bed. The upstairs bar had real grass as a counter top, pretty strange. I don’t know how people find these places if they haven’t been there before. I'm so glad to have a personal tour guide with us. I guess the harder a place is to find, the cooler it is.