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todayiamadaisy) wrote2016-09-26 08:07 pm
todayiamadaisy) wrote2016-09-26 08:07 pm
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The Magnificent Marquis
Hello from the City by the River, f-list! Nowhere near the sea! I am in Wodonga, which, fun fact, is named after a type of edible nut found at the base of reeds. Wodonga is about the size of the City by the Sea, except not, because it is a twin city. There's another city twice the size across the river in New South Wales. Albury-Wodonga is about three times the size of the City by the Sea.
I stopped at the train station's supermarket this morning to buy a snack for the train and something for lunch. Great excitement: my change included one of our new five dollar notes. (I mean the design is new. We've had the note itself forever.) They've been out for few weeks, but I haven't seen one in person before. They are... colourful. I do wonder why they put microbes on it.
I mentioned that last night's hotel room had that magic touch-free flush loo. It was amusing at first. I waved my hand at it and said, "Shazam!" But! It was very sensitive. And the bathroom was very small. So: I pulled a towel down from the towel shelf; I flushed the loo. I put my toilet bag on the same shelf as the flush button; I flushed the loo. I bent down to get the hairdryer; I flushed the loo. I have never flushed a loo so many times.
Tonight I am in the hotel nearest to my work's Wodonga office, which is a serviced apartment. I have a full-sized kitchen. I have a washer and dryer. I have been here before, and when you check in you are supposed to get the breakfast menu. Only when I got here today, my wanting to check in clearly interrupted the girl on reception from her chat with a colleague, and she forgot to give me the breakfast menu. I didn't realise until I got to my room. I was going to go back and get one, then I thought: I've got a kitchen, and I think I saw a supermarket nearby. So I went for a little walk and bought some breakfast things. Proper milk! A travel pack of Nutrigrain! An apple!
Today's train sight: a goat sitting on a log.
I stopped at the train station's supermarket this morning to buy a snack for the train and something for lunch. Great excitement: my change included one of our new five dollar notes. (I mean the design is new. We've had the note itself forever.) They've been out for few weeks, but I haven't seen one in person before. They are... colourful. I do wonder why they put microbes on it.
I mentioned that last night's hotel room had that magic touch-free flush loo. It was amusing at first. I waved my hand at it and said, "Shazam!" But! It was very sensitive. And the bathroom was very small. So: I pulled a towel down from the towel shelf; I flushed the loo. I put my toilet bag on the same shelf as the flush button; I flushed the loo. I bent down to get the hairdryer; I flushed the loo. I have never flushed a loo so many times.
Tonight I am in the hotel nearest to my work's Wodonga office, which is a serviced apartment. I have a full-sized kitchen. I have a washer and dryer. I have been here before, and when you check in you are supposed to get the breakfast menu. Only when I got here today, my wanting to check in clearly interrupted the girl on reception from her chat with a colleague, and she forgot to give me the breakfast menu. I didn't realise until I got to my room. I was going to go back and get one, then I thought: I've got a kitchen, and I think I saw a supermarket nearby. So I went for a little walk and bought some breakfast things. Proper milk! A travel pack of Nutrigrain! An apple!
Today's train sight: a goat sitting on a log.