After a 3 hour drive to Heathrow Airport, a 12 hour flight to Bangkok, a 17 hour delay, a 10 hour flight to Melbourne I made it to Australia! Chris had arranged a house share for when I got there which turned out to be a shed :) It was pretty cool though and in a great location, just a 10 minute walk from Chapel Street.
The Shed
Chapel Street is one of our favourite things about Melbourne with loads of cool bars and hang outs. Our favourite place was Wonderland with its $3 schooners.
Wonderland
Francis, Chris, Maéva and Míchéal
Melbourne
The train station was only a 5 minute walk from our house into Melbourne city centre, Flinders Street Station. The bar across the road from the station called Young & Jacksons had a roof top cider bar which me, Chris and Dan would hang out at. There's loads of roof top bars in Melbourne, Cookie has a pretty good one!
Flinders Street Station & Eureka Tower
Cookie roof top bar
Victoria Market is absolutely huge and sells pretty much anything and everything. The hot dog stand and cheese counters meant a considerable weight gain whilst in Melbourne, but totally worth it!
Victoria Market
China town is packed full of restaurants and is the cheapest place we found to eat out in Melbourne. However, I still can't use chopsticks.
Chris booked for us to go on the tram car restaurant which takes you round the suburbs of Melbourne for 3 hours whilst serving a 4 course menu. The drinks were unlimited and we got to try Kangaroo for the first time. Pretty tasty!
Eureka tower gives amazing views over Melbourne. It cost us $16 to go up to the highest point in the city and is well worth it. Extremely windy though.
During our time in Melbourne we went to see LA Galaxy vs Victoria which meant seeing David Beckham and Robbie Keane. However, the atmosphere really doesn't compare to an English match. I also saw my first cricket match. It was about 6 hours of cricket, I still don't understand the rules, I still cant remember who was playing but me, Chris, Míchéal and Francis had a great time drinking and enjoying the sunshine.
St Kilda
Chris lived in St Kilda before I arrived and we'd often get the tram over to go to La Roche or for a Shisha.
La Roche
Whilst Chris was at work I'd usually go to the beach and relax for the day, sometimes with Dan. The gardens by the beach were nice for a change, especially if Chris had the day off work so we could go together. The pier at St Kilda beach is home to tiny penguins!
St Kilda Beach
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