Day 18 - Melbourne

The weather was better today.  Only a little rain.

We came into Melbourne and did a City tour.  The tour leader used to live in Market Harborough.

We saw some of the sights of the city.

Flinders Street Station with santa on sleigh being towed by kangaroos instead of reindeer

Melbourne free city loop tram

Cathedral

Federation Square

Federation Square

Federation Square

Yarra River bridge

Arts Centre

The oldest building in Melbourne,
Now Young and Jackson pub.

Inside the cathedral

Hosier Street.  Heavily graffited.  Changes daily with new graffiti covering old

Gog and Magog statue in shopping centre

Old Father Time figure in shopping mall

Melbourne Jail where Ned Kelly was executed

Residential tower.  Not many people see the 
Face with the naked eye, including me, but it is clear through a photo.

Flinders Street station with manually set clocks for each next train time

We had hoped to do a tour of the Parliament but the first tour over ran and we were too late.

Parliament Building


We then walked around the city centre and caught the city loop free tram which goes around the city.  After a few stops, it broke down so we had to get off.  We went to find a cafe and had a cup of tea and cake snd came back to try again.  This time we got on a fully working tram and did the full loop.

We then went for a drink at Melbournes oldest pub in the oldest building, Young and Jackson before getting the train back to Laras.


After dinner at Laras we went to pick up Oliver from Scouts and had and early night.

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