Melbourne

Today we took the train to Melbourne.  Many people commute the hour into the city.  The train is in walking distance from the house but it was raining when we left so Chris drove us.   Melbourne is a city of contrasts...old historic buildings next to modern skyscrapers.  Trams and cars clog the streets and a river of pedestrians flows by.  This is a city of immigrants from the original British penal colony to the gold seekers from the world over to recent waves of Vietnamese, Malaysians,  etc.  We went to the Victoria St. Market which reflects this in food stalls of every ethnic taste.  Kind of like a giant food court.  There is also a fruit and vegetable section and rows of stalls selling coats to key chains.  I had greek lamb wrap.  Yum.
Then through to the Royal Arcade and the Block Arcade...what a shopping mall originally looked like.  After 8,000 steps we were glad to be on the train going home.