Hi there,
The
internet is very slow here, so it takes ages to upload a couple of pictures.
Anyway, after the two-day-tour to the Great Ocean Road we were exhausted. So on
that following Saturday we slept in, had some lunch in our hotel room while we waited
for the pictures to upload in this blog and only went out at about 4pm to buy
some tickets at Federation Square. What kind of tickets? You will find out in
my next entry about Monday ;-)
We got to
Harbour City where the newly opened Melbourne Star was operating. I have to
take some pictures also at night because it is flashing like a lunatic in all
sorts of colors and combinations.
After that
we had a big dinner in Little Collins Street and went to the hotel again. On
Sunday we had bigger plans. From Federations Square we started the self-guided
“Secret Gardens” Tour through the Botanical Gardens on the other side of the
river. It was actually really nice but I did not feel very well after the
vegetarian all you can eat (it exists! On Swanston Street), so we had to stop
several times and rest. It took us until 5pm to finish the tour.
Then we got
on the tram towards Albert Park to the semi-permanent race track of the Formula
1 Grand Prix! Semi-permanent means that it is usually a normal street but for
the F1 they put everything up, so it is not permanently a race track. But the pit
lane is permanent and we headed there. A dream came true for Markus!
Then we
drove further South by tram to St. Kilda, to stroll along the beach and then
down the pier to watch out for wild little penguins coming in after sunset for
their nests. I have seen so many sunsets here in Australia but I cannot
remember the last sunset I saw in Germany. Hmm!
A lot of
people waited patiently but even one hour after sunset no penguin in sight.
Even the penguin team was confused as there should have been a few by then. At 10:15pm
the crowd has melted to very small groups when there was finally some movement
in the water directly in front of Markus and me! Everyone got excited and
huddled towards us and someone held a red light to the rocks when we saw… a
rat… Yeah, we left after that, quite disappointed but that’s nature.
Yours
garden-walking Stefanie
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