Hello everyone,

After we both took a shower and got refreshed we decided to head out into the city and celebrate John's achievement of having circumnavigated the world (I still have to get back to Holland for that). We left our hotel and went to the City Circle Tramline to take a free ride around the city.

Halfway John remembered there used to be a great pub across from Flinders Street station, so we got out of the Tram there to see if it was still there. And it was. Young and Jackson's it was called. A fantastic place to hop in and have a drink. So we did. We had a couple of beers and enjoyed the live music. Reminded me a bit of Dublin.

When the band stopped playing we decided to head out and grab something to eat, since we hadn't eaten anything yet since we arrived in Melbourne. We stopped at a local pie shop so I could try out the Australian pies, and they were great. I can certainly get used to eating them.

After this little snack we went back to that same pub to find the same band playing a new set of songs, so we stayed there for a bit more. But after a while we got hungry again and went out for dinner.

We sat down at a nearby restaurant and started noticing how hot it was. Being inside a pub with airconditioning was great but being outside in the sun was too warm for me. We tried taking the tram back to the hotel but the free City Circle one only goes around between 10 am and 6 pm so we had to walk all the way back. It wasn't that much of a distance to walk, but with the heat it became quite a tough trip.

All sweaty we made it back to the hotel, where a nice shower and airconditioning system made us feel at ease again. The hotel itself is great, we're at the 13th floor and we have a nice and spacious room with comfortable beds and a great shower. A good night sleep wasn't hard to get!

This morning we had breakfast at the hotel which was better than what we've had so far, anywhere on this journey and decided to head out to perhaps do some additional shopping. It's raining quite heavily though, so we're probably going to find some museums to check out.

See you all tomorrow!

Jeremy

P.S. We can upload photos again so we've added everything that we had from Softengine.nl to this site. Yesterday we forgot to take the camera with us, but we won't forget today!