One of my must do activities was the neighbours tour in Melbourne, so we booked to do the 3hr tour on tuesday morning. When we got on the bus, I told one of our other tourmates I would be happy just to watch old reruns. Funnily enough I got my wish (after being totally oblivious to a massive car accident behind the bus), we got to watch Daphnes death and Brad and Beths wedding.
Our first stop was Erinsborough high school, which looked slightly familiar but not really. We had our picture taken by the school sign though.
For any of you neighbours fans out there and I was told by the tour guide, there are 14 million in the UK and Ireland, Erinsborough is an anagram for "all the neighbours". Not entirely sure how that works out either.
Our next stop was the TV studios, we weren't allowed in, but we did get to look and play around with the external sets like, the mechanic shop, grease monkeys and Marlenes bric-a-brac shop.
Our last stop was Ramsey Street, which is an incredibly small cul-de-sac. It only has 6 houses which are all the ones they use in the show. Apparently they have contracts with the people who own them and they close off the road, make the houses inaccessible to the residents and film 3 days a week.
On our way back into Melbourne, we stopped in St Kilda (luckily the district we are staying in at the moment) to meet a neighbours star. Well, we got to meet Janelle Timmins and get her photo and autograph. She looked a bit tired (rough) but was really nice and gave us a few hints as too whats going to happen. Email me if you really want to know.
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