Christmas & New Year In Darwin

Location: Singapore
Weather: Rainy but still warm

Thanks to lovely Liv from New Zealand, I ended up going out on Christmas Eve to the Shenanigans Irish bar and had a few beers. After getting up reasonably late I discovered that Darwin really livens up on Christmas Day. Absolutely EVERYTHING closes, except the cinema and the takeaway Thai place opposite the hostel. So, my Christmas lunch consisted of Thai noodles followed by a late outing to see Ocean's 12 (which was dead good).

New Years was a bit more happening, I hanged out with my 2 German friends Daniel & Marris and my Israeli friend Dave who incredibly I've run into about 10 times on the East Coast and now as co-incidence would have here he was again!
Anyways as luck would have it, the hostel banned alcohol for some reason (there were a lot of Australian yobs around, probably why) so after we went out and bought a load of beer and Bundaberg Rum (not my choice) the security guard told us we weren't allowed it, even though we were obviously decent blokes, how useful. Anyways eventually we managed to smuggle the Rum in bottles of Sprite and Coke and drank it in our room. We then went outside and drank some beers in the carpark where the security guard told us was a "secret" place where we could drink! then we went to the Darwin
Mall where there was a big party, lots of people, good music, they even had a DJ and did a countdown! Didn't stay out particularly late, but it certainly was not a bad night.

By JamesReed on 10.01.05 @ 02:10 PM GMT