Welcome Australia - Melbourne

After a day of flying from the northern to the southern hemisphere, we finally arrived in Sydney on Saturday. However, we traveled on to Melbourne some hours later already (we'll return to Sydney in September). The airline we chose for the second flight was quite cheap – the boarding passes looked like bills and it had an open-air arrival area. We moved on to the hostel using the comfortable Skyline bus and arrived there after a 23-hours journey. Still, we went looking for a computer store to fix our laptop some minutes later. We explored Melbourne and found it to be a very interesting and architecturally beautiful city. After dinner in a Korean student restaurant we went to bed, glad about finally reaching our destination.

On Sunday we started to visit the sights of Melbourne: Parliament, Fitzroy Gardens, Treasure Gardens, Exhibition Center and Museum. We had lunch at an Italian restaurant and then continued the tour to the Melbourne Gaol, Victoria markets, a bookstore, Federation Square, the Yarra river area and finally to the Crown entertainment complex (with the biggest Australian casino). In the evening, we ended up going to the IMAX theater to watch Harry Potter (partially in 3D). In short: We love Melbourne! Although it's winter over here the weather is okay, the Yarra river looks as if it's Christmas time with many little lights, and last but not least the people and the town are just nice.