Did I wish you
Merry Xmas? Well, a
Happy New Year then, just for the record. A lot of things happened since that last time I blogged during the night while waiting for my wallet to come back! Let me give you a short insight of what happened.
On the morning of December 26th Marc and I flew to Melbourne to hang out some days and see the city before starting our adventure trip on Tassie. I gotta say that I liked the city immediately and I also understood what people had in mind telling me that it has a European style. We got ourselves a backpacker hostel right next to the
Federation Square, a good point to start our exploration. Since we did not really study the Lonely Planet before the trip we managed to make heavy use of the tourists office which (and here I am serious) is the best one I have ever been to. We got heaps of tips, maps, walking guides, car rental companies and a truck load of ideas how to see the Great Ocean Road - a lot of filtering had to be done. We decided to give the walking tours a go for shopping definately wasn't our main interest and chilling here and there while seeing the great sport locations, the parcs, some
historical sights sounded just good. What I enjoyed most was the river running through the city's heart, with lots of cool things to see, especially
at night, sculptures, fancy fountains, the exhibitions center, artists, funny people, ... and whatnot.
Strolling through the city we found ourselves in the Melbourne Central shopping mall, hey, this complex is soo huge, going over four blocks (including several bridges over streets), somehow hidden, really well
equipped and
architecturally absolutely astonishing from the inside! As we discovered it held a cinema (of course) we decided to watch King Kong that night. However, no time for a movie review.
