Orientation Day

Spent the day refamiliarising ourselves with Melbourne. It really is a beautiful city - gorgeous buildings, lots of green spaces and street art, and a much higher standard of buskers!

We ran into a massive protest march - apparently 30,000 people took part, protesting about lots of different things for which they all blamed the government. All the trams had to stop for about half an hour as they came down Swanston St, and then up Bourke St to Parliament. We've collected a heap of brochures from the information centre, looking for new places to visit that we haven't seen on previous trips. We have a bit of an agenda now for the rest of our week.

We moved into our new accommodation - another great location, handy to transport and Bourke St Mall.

Despite trying not to, we ended up in our old favourite haunt, Hardware Lane, for dinner. Had a superb meal, cheap(ish) and cheerful and very well cooked, but it is the vibe of the Lane that entertains most.  We were seated beside a party of four Americans who were on a tour who had just come from NZ, which they loved. They had us translating the menu for them, and the wait staff were hilarious with them too.

After taking photos for them (as requested) on their own cameras, they commandeered them and took silly selfies of themselves and their co-workers - you had to be there!

Well ready for sleep by the time we got home.

[Allan: I always enjoy looking at the building design here in Melbourne]