{"id":264,"date":"2008-07-29T00:07:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T23:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2017-09-21T16:57:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:57:39","slug":"first-stop-in-australia-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/29\/first-stop-in-australia-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"First stop in Australia: Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally arrived on Saturday, after Rathy was nice enough to bring me to the airport at 4 in the morning. My friend Sonja came to pick me up, and since then I’ve been staying with her and her lovely family in a suburb of Melbourne, full with cute little Victorian worker’s cottages. Their house, for example, is only one room wide, built a little like a train. Sonja and her husband Tom both speak German, so we get to have secret conversations in front of the two boys (Sean and Yannik) a lot. *g*<\/p>\n

I’ve also been exploring the city a bit, walking around the CBD (Central Business District), which is full of beautiful old buildings in between modern skyscrapers. There’s also trams going everywhere, so I feel right at home. \ud83d\ude42 Another thing I like about Melbourne are the many, many parks – when they planned the city in the mid-1800s, they sure did a good job.<\/p>\n

There are also some nice museums – on Sunday, when the weather was bad, we went to the Melbourne Museum, and yesterday I spent some time at the State Library, looking at a beautiful exhibition of old books. The family also took me to Williamstown on the sea, where I got a lovely look at the Melbourne skyline.<\/p>\n

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The new Flickr album can be found here<\/a>. Now I have two more days here, which I intend to put to good use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally arrived on Saturday, after Rathy was nice enough to bring me to the airport at 4 in the morning. My friend Sonja came to pick me up, and since then I’ve been staying with her and her lovely family in a suburb of Melbourne, full with cute little Victorian worker’s cottages. Their house, … <\/p>\n

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