Day 3: Keeping this short, just got home and need to be up early tomorrow morning. See the effort I go to in a bid to blog while the memories are still fresh in my head. Didn't actually go to sleep until 4am or 5am, EdTV happened to be on TV on the Showtime Greats channel, so I ended up staying up to watch that - it is a great movie. Housekeeper came around at 9am this time, so I got up to let her do her thing. Watched a few episodes of the Simpsons until around 11ish when I figured I should really go do something. I ended up just wandering around the city again - today included seeing the State Library, Parliament House, taking a closer look around Federation Square, and taking the free city tram around a bit (I guess a bit like the free loop bus in Brisbane, but a tram and directed at tourists). After all this I went up Rialto Tower to once again get some more photos of Melbourne from above. My miniature city now consists of three towers. Yay.
The free tram.
A view from Rialto you can't get from Eureka.
Went to Raffy's place for dinner, which was an interesting journey. I caught a train there from Southern Cross Station, which is half a block away from where I'm staying. I had to get change for a $20 note to put into the ticket machine, and then I had to run to find the right platform on time - it was a big train station. Got on the train, which look quite similar to the new QR trains, except for the colour scheme. Did a bit of reading until my eyelids got heavy. All of a sudden I woke up to find that I was two stops past the station I was meant to get off at. So I got off and had to wait for the next train in the other direction. Decided I could do with a stroll to wake me up properly, so I walked the couple of kms to Raffy's house. Had dinner, and then we were off to his mate's place, whose band was doing a bit of a gig at his place. It was a good night, and I really liked it - am now tempted to get back into songwriting, I haven't written a song for several months now. After that we drove to the city and decided to check out the Melbourne city nightlife for an hour or two, before Raffy dropped me back at the hotel. He's coming to pick me up around 9am in the morning and I really need to get some sleep now.
Southern Cross Station.
The train interior, which looks vaguely familiar...
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