Melburnian Winter hours pass by slowly, dilating the darkness of the austral sky which, as a Cyclops, looks at us with his dim, trying to heat our nights with faint remnants of light contrasted with the sparkle of the city.
The busy lives of souls who pass through the avenues of the CBD, however, do not stop or lighten their step and, as the days, they pass quickly through our windows and, if only for a moment a curtain or blind closes, there is a risk that when opened, after a stretch of "inspiration" in our work, the light has left us now, without hesitation, like saying "Sorry, it's very cold in here to wait until you deign to leave."
Finally, with the last piece of the puzzle of the daily grind put in place, you are ready to leave and, when you take your bag, your jacket and get your place in the immeasurable moving multitudes of the city, you feel your burden, heavier. Then you understand that note about the so-called "winter stress" in one of the many websites you check daily. You do not understand well if it's the early darkness and the ongoing challenges of life what is subjecting your muscles to the particular stress you feel, but you know there's no time like this to lighten the burden of the day.
Fortunately, the rhetoric plays fair in all weather and social conditions and premature night each winter comes not only with early icy winds, but also with the lively activity of the nightlife of the city. And that reside in one of the most cosmopolitan cities in this part of the world has its benefits and one of them is precisely to have many places to relieve, even only for a moment, this constant street race.
You don't even need to look far to find a place like
Spleen Central, a place located in the lush and brilliantly known Bourke Street, consisting of two levels. The first one welcomes you with the open arms of the bar, a compulsory literary figure of contemporary novels, lyrically fulfilling all requirements, from the gleaming beer taps to the friendly greeting of the bartender, who automatically puts in your mouth the phrase, "a pot of beer, please!" The second level gives rise to comfortable couches, in a way that makes you wish you had made that call to your friends in advance.
Entrance
One of the remarkable features of the site is its free Comedy Show on Monday evenings. On a previous visit, I was lucky to see one of those shows where, for special occasion, there were a couple of foreign actors in addition to new local talents, that exercised, as some of them said, the "superpower" that is to make people laugh for nearly an hour. There will be more to say about this.
With prices starting at $4 for a pot of beer, whether you seek a place for a relaxing quiet drink for the end of the day before going home, or a place to meet up with friends, the atmosphere and quiet location of the place makes a perfect alternative to achieve the longed status of "relaxation" after a hard week of work, which somehow eases your body and successfully rejoins you to the constant urban pilgrimage that we are subjected in our daily lives.
