Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Melbourne

During our stay in Melbourne, we stayed with Ross and Sally, who Hannah had already met in Melbourne before I arrived and who had agreed to put first Hannah and then me up in their house. Ross and Sally took great care of us, for which we are hugely grateful. I spent most of the time slowly getting over my jetlag. We did once venture into central Melbourne. Here's a picture of Hannah giving the place some serious repect:


On Wednesday, we said goodbye to Ross and Sally and went to Southern Cross Station to catch the overnight train to Sydney. We had initially planned to take as many overnight trains as possible, using our Country Link Backtracker Pass tm, through which we have unlimited use of various trains and buses between Melbourne and Brisbane for the duration of our stay. At $300 for three months, this pass seemed to be awesome value.

Awesome value or not, it did involve us committing to spend the night on a train between Melbourne and Sydney. On the positive side, we did save ourselves the cost of a night's accomodation. On the negative side, we didn't sleep much. The seats in a railway carriage turn out to be even less comfortable than those in an airliner. Still, we arrived in one piece and made plans to explore Sydney for a day before heading north towards Brisbane.

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