Melbourne

Mammy's Malaysia exchange buddy Marie family lives in Melbourne. This time shall pay a visit to them too :-)

Melbourne locates at south of Sydney, 1 hour flight away. It is considered as the culture and sports center of Australia. Each year Australia Opens and F1 car tracing are held here. Melbourne and Sydney are called as "rivalries" ;-) Perhaps it is bit like Shanghai and Beijing? That's why Australia sets its capital Canberra out of nowhere but in the MIDDLE of Sydney and Melbourne to ease the tension :-)

(View from airplane to Melbourne)

Marie family live in new suburb of Melbourne. Car journey to the city center takes about 30 minutes. This living area is brand new, most of the houses are just constructed. There are still quite a few under construction. It is wonderful to have own house! Let me think of our own project, when will it be ready? Perhaps next Christmas???

(Australia style??)

For the first time in life, we tasted Kangaroo meat. Hmm, actually it tastes pretty much same like beef. What about reindeer's meat? Tuomo always says it tastes like wool socks (villasukat :-)

(Kangaroo dinner)

Any beautiful city must have water around, the same applies to Melbourne. High school canoe club is in action, very much British style.

(Melbourne "eye"?)


(City center runs through by the famous river)

It took 15 minutes for Bobo to get comfortable of the new thing "beach". This time it's real sand not play yard's sand box :-) In the end it was so fun and didn't want to leave...

(St. Kilda beach)


(Sea food)

As one of immigration country, of course you can always find China Town in each major cities of Australia.

(China town)

General to say, Melbourne is a city more European alike. It is much younger and newer and cheaper than Sydney. Melbourne's winter is colder too. Well, perhaps the only thing Sydney can be proud of is the weather.