Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Downtown Melbourne

This is our first time down under - never been in the Southern Hemisphere.  We're off to a great start as Kylie went to Melbourne University (call it UNI here - pronounced unee).

She dropped us off at our hotel about 3:30 and headed home, about a 4 hour drive.  It was such a joy to be with her again!

We are staying at the Docklands Travelodge. It's very nice - fairly new- and right downtown near the Southern Cross Train Station.   We have a tour scheduled for Tuesday so I wanted to take s walk to see where the stop is for us to be picked up at 7:45 in the morning.  Also wanted to buy some fruit for lunch.
So, off I went with the map.  The pick up spot is only 4 blocks away and I just kept walking.  


 

We will be visiting this church on our tour...so I just walked by.

 

The beautiful and historic Flinders Steeet Railway Station.  The building is so pretty and bustling with people.  Melbourne has a fantastic train and tram system.  There are 3 1/2 million in the metro area.  
Biking had gotten very popular in recent years.

Flinders was the first man to circumnavigate Australia!


The street are wide and well used.  I saw a few boulevards lined with trees.  Seems clean and friendly. They get a lot of tourists from all over the world.

 
 

The weather is very nice - it's early fall here.  Lots of people eating outside at cafes, lots of tourist shops and hotels.  I got in the rest of my 5 miles for the day and got back to the hotel at 7:00.  We just had fruit for supper as we had eaten lunch at 3:00!

Slept really well that night - after being up for 2 full days.

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