Maja Nordlund

Me and Evelina are now in Melbourne, surprised we'd got us here, since everyone else on our hostel up in Cairns had to stay for some extra days because neither the buses nor the trains could drive through the watermasses in the middle of the eastcoast! So we made the right choice by going from the south to the north (and then flying south again.. ;p)

 

Yesterday we spend at the Victoria Market in the city, the biggest market both of us have ever been to, and we looove markets!! Especially all the food, candy and other good stuff you can try for free! ;) I thinked we broke our record by far, trying: donuts, peppermint rock candy, jam, chutney, chocolate, macadamia nuts, chips, cheese, dip, cherrys and everything one or two times again! ;) After our free lunch we went for a shopping round, resulting in another pair of shorts for me (why does Australia has to have so many cool shorts?!) and some other nice clothes!

Then we made our way through the city center, seeing old medival churches everywhere we looked (I don't mind, I love Robin Hood!) and finally came to the bridge which after a while lead us to the Botanic Garden. It wasn't as impressive as Sydney's Garden, the trees here were more grey and a bit boring... (if trees in some way can be funny..?) And we got lost a couple of times, but I've been lost in worst places.. 

Evelina posing in front of the most exiting part of the Botanical Garden!

 

Taking the train back to our couchsurfing-host's house, was a bit of an adventure, since we hadn't cared about buying tickets, and off course a ticket-controllant comes along..! Well, we played stupid, bad-english-speaking tourist that didn't get how to buy a ticket, so the controllant let us be..! ;)