Melbourne: buildings & shops

Sunday was our last day together in Melbourne. My flight back to Sydney departed at 7pm (or should´ve departed if it hadn´t been delayed) and Juulia flew back to Perth on Monday. We hadn´t any special plans for the day, so we just walked around to check out any nice looking parks and buildings. The weather was sunny but a little windy. We were a bit cold at first wearing just thongs and light shirts, but it got warmer later on. First we went to this park, where we found a conservatorium with beautiful flowers inside it and Captain Cook´s Cottage. It had been built in the 1700s in England and then shipped to Australia and rebuilt in that park. Go figure the rationale behind that! Then we went to see this old cathedral, which was really beautiful both outside and inside. Our last buildings to see were the parliament house, the exchibition centre and Melbourne museum. We had decided not to go to museums during this trip, due to our limited amount of time. We considered going to this Pixar exchibition, though, but didn´t really have the time.

In the flower conservatorium

Inside the cathedral

The Exchibition Centre

After our buildings-tour we walked pretty randomly around the city centre going to any nice looking malls and shops. Neither of us bought anything, but we saw some more cool malls! We ended up walking close to this donut shop, so we bought donuts and coffee and went to sit on the stairs in front of the rainway station to eat them. It was a perfect place - sunny and sheltered from wind - so we sat there for over half an hour just chatting and looking at all the people. There were lots of people there, considering it was Sunday. They say people dress more fashionable in Melbourne, which I think is true. After the donut break we continued our shopping tour, still not buying anything, walking towards Chinatown to have lunch there. We ate at this cheap Chinese place and got huge portions! I took half of mine with me to eat in the plane.

Inside a mall

Then it was time for me to go back to the hostel to pick up my luggage and take the tram to the bus station, from where I catched the shuttle bus to the airport. Juulia accompanied me, and we sat on the grass by Yarra River for a while before my shuttle bus left. When I got to the airport (which is tiny, by the way) I found out my flight was delayed by 40min. I just sat there writing some notes about the trip. (That´s the only way to remember everything for writing such detailed stories on this blog.)

A free tramp going around the city centre

Yay, I´m finally done writing about the trip! It´s taken me forever so I hope you guys feel like reading it. I know you do read this blog, but I´m a bit dissappointed having no one commenting my stories :/