After a bit of a wild drive from the airport to our great lodgings at a Newport Airbnb, courtesy of our Garmin, Sheila, which seemed to have some senior moments and routed us through the city and made us a bit late, we’ve settled in for our 2.5 day sojourn in Australia’s second largest city.
Our first full day was full of figuring out the train travel to the city, walking our poor feet off, and then a simple one hour cruise up and down the Yarra river which runs through the city. Then a rewarding beer under a bridge in a bar designed for that purpose and full of trolls (not really the troll part). Fish and chips dinner, a delightful conversation with our hosts, Jim and Karen, and then bed.
Our second day was spent with a very dear friend who drove us to her favorite place, Cape Scanck, on the Mornington Peninsula, where we hike for about three hours in sunshine and a nice sea breeze. Then lunch at a very Italian pizzeria, where English is definitely a second language where we talked for another couple of hours. Then sadly back to Melbourne and our goodbyes.
Tomorrow is off to Daylesford, one of our favorite places in Australia, to stay with another Airbnb host family, who have two dogs!
Sailing of Cape Schanck
Cape Schanck
Mornington Countryside
Where the Land Meets the Sea
On the Yarra River
The Eureka Tower
Colorful Melbourne Alley
The M.S. Grower
Flinders Station, Melbourne
"Trolls" Under the Bridge
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