♫ Big city.... BIG BIG CITY ♫

Location: Mebourne

Date: 9^th April – 12^th of April

We are in Melbourne!!!!Melbourne is the city of cafe’s and restaurants... sounds horrible. Unfortunately Melbourne is also a city of .. RAIN! Haven’t seen so much rain in a while! Thank god we don’t have to camp outside!. We met some lovely people and they invited us to stay with them. This means an actually table for dinner, no breaking down of the tent etc in the morning and Maaike even had a real mattressJ. We started of in St Kilda, browsing through a street market ( LOVE IT) and ending up having lunch in a nice place in St Kilda. 

We also visited the Royal botanical Gardens which are truly beautiful (and free). Getting about and about is pretty easy as they have a good metro system going on here and on Sunday a ticket is only $3 (aussie dollars). In the evening we had a really nice dinner and ended up drinking a beer in a place close to st Kilda... well that ended up being 1 beer only......wrong club!

Visiting the “Melbourne museum” was a real highlight. This museum isn’t your typical museum ( old paintings etc etc). It focussed more on the history of the knowledge about our brains, dreams and even mental diseases. We also saw a lot of dead animals but it was really nicely done. Another part was the “bug section”. Seriously that department gave me the creeps and a serious itch everywhere! We Know that Australia has a lot of dangerous animals (we are being reminded everyday!) well we saw many of them in the “bug section”. Yikes! They had some really cool green beetles as well...see those I like! They don’t kill you! Did I mention that most of the bugs in that section were actually alive?

Melbourne is a very nice city. Not too big and not too small, you can find your cosy streets and corner pubs. Of course we did have a beer in a typical big sports Cafe and watch Australian Footy ( yes it exists and is a mixture between rugby and american football. Most striking of all... the field is round!!!) . Needles to say we didn't understand any of the rules... well actually the main rule seemed to be : There ain't any!

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AU - Melbourne

Ayooo Marrem