Walking, Penguins & Saying Goodbye
20th – 23rd February 2018
After another monstrous greyhound bus journey, we made it to Melbourne and thankfully to a nice hostel (you wouldn’t get me back to that place in Sydney even if you paid me!).
Our plans for Melbourne were to do more walking tours as they are a really good way to see the city. The first one we did was one of the city and our tour guide, Tristan, was super nice and his enthusiasm for the spots he was showing us, and coffee were infectious. It allowed us to go to the less mainstream places and see the hidden art down the side streets of Melbourne.
This is Flinders Street railway station, fun fact – My paternal Grandmas maiden name was Flinders!
The next evening, we decided to head to St. Kilda for another walking tour and to witness the penguin parade. The penguin parade is a nightly occurrence after sunset when they are returning from their hunt for food at sea. We were lucky enough to spot about 8 of them and a few younger ones who, as you can imagine were insanely cute. No pictures unfortunately because it was so dark and we didn’t want to frighten them!
There are lots of similarities between Manchester and Melbourne and the pictures show just how the architecture is similar. I really liked Melbourne and would love to go back as I feel like I didn’t get to explore as much as I would’ve liked. Spending our last evening in Aus (before the monster journey home) in St. Kilda, was a really lovely ending to a life changing journey that I’ll never forget.
One last greyhound to go, one last journey, to the airport… Manchester, I’m coming for you!
Speak soon,
Hannah x
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