Day 5

Howdy Everyone!

Today we had lots of fun exploring the busy busling streets of Melbourne city. We had a late start as I sifted through my suitcases trying to find something to wear; but EVENTUALLY we ventured out :)

 The train station luckily was a two minute walk away from where we were staying and with our "Myki" - the equivalent to the Oyster card, we were able to use buses, trams and trains and go all around Melbourne city.

Now Melbourne for those who haven't yet had the pleasure; Melbourne is a far far larger city than the Uk people are used to, it's VERY spacious; with lots and lots of shops, cafes, bars and restaurants and had many little gardens thrown in amongst them so you can kick back and have a chill on the grass. There are a great many buskers; very good ones too! and colourful graphetti hidden on some of the side streets.I'd describe it as like London but nicer, better weather and on a far far larger scale...

I mean...we walked for hours! - Good exercise though! Anyway here are some random pics of Melbourne...(I'm sure better ones will follow as we do more exploring)
                                                   

We started off in search of a place recommended to us by Jamie's Mum 'Marios', this unfortunately due to our terrible map reading skills and partly due to technical malfunctions with Google or our phones; didn't happen...instead we ended up in a bit more seedier part of town (yes, EVEN beautiful Melbourne has them) and after exhausting ourselves and running away from some druggy who had taken a shine to Jamie we decided...shops and picnic food would do us fine! So we stumbled across a supermarket and got the essentials every veggie needs - bread, houmous, falafel, crisps and ice cream and managed to jump on a train to St. Kilda beach.

St Kilda beach was beautiful! We had a good explore there, met a nice London lad called Mason who gave us some helpful advise and invited us to a pub crawl next Friday and we found Luna Park, Melbourne's famous Theme park (for a future time)  We then lay back and enjoyed the sun and the beach and the food  :)

 

Then we tram and train jumped home to chill with the family in the evening; who had of course been missing us..and us them ;)

We also eye spyed some excellent looking jobs, so fingers crossed we shall secure one soon!

That's all for now, Chow! :)