Almost two weeks ago, we left home for the longest trip away we have ever done. We are hoping it will be about eight months before we have to come home, but we will see how far we get. First stop, Melbourne!
Melbourne is like a second home city to us now. We have
visited enough times to have seen the sights, have a basic understanding of the
layout of the city so we can walk without a map, and have friends and family
(my sister lives there now) enough there now that we spent a good few days
catching up with people. Alternatively, we sat in a cafe with free WiFi and started making plans for the next week or so of our trip.
By Perth standards, the weather in Melbourne was icy. The first day was pleasant enough – sunny and 22 degrees – but the following
two really delivered in terms of Melbourne-typical weather. Showers, hail,
wind, a high of 15 degrees; we were longing for the beach.
Leaving Perth in the whirlwind in the way we did - with
weeks of hard work, moving, sorting out problems – made Melbourne the perfect
first destination. Finally, we had the chance to relax and leave our work
behind. My sister and her boyfriend recently moved into a new house, with new
housemates, and we spent two really fun nights with the whole house-full,
eating homemade pizza and playing beer pong, then cooking Indian food for the
whole crew and polishing off a bottle of red wine. They are good people, and I
am happy to see my sister happy.
Here’s where we ate:
Quince Cafe –
amazing Italian hot chocolate
Gami – specialising
in Korean fried chicken and beer, the spicy chicken had us all gulping down
water
Purple Peanuts – Japanese
lunch for cheap, vegetarian rice ball ftw
Ponyfish Island – if
you like to sit in a bar in the middle of the river and let the trans-arctic
winds ice you up, here you go (also, we saw a goose!)
Horn, Please – hipster
Indian with a mysterious name
The Hardware Societe –
ubiquitous French-style cutesy cafe, Perth prices
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