Good evening everyone,

Today was our last day in Melbourne, tomorrow we will take the train to our camper rental company and from there on we will drive to Adelaide. We hope to be able to keep blogging every day but we can't make any promises, sorry.

On to the events of today: We left the hotel quite early and took a tram to the Melbourne University. The entire campus was a bit hidden. When we exited the tram I couldn't imagine the whole university being on our left hand side, but once we went through the little alleys, passed all the old buildings with names as 'Mathematics & Statistics' and such, we realised we were in the right place.

We went through all the little cosy passageways and through the old buildings and inner courts. When we left the university grounds, we took the tram back into the city. A lot of students did the same, and they all exited at La Trobe Street, where the State Library was located.

We had already been inside the State Library so we stayed on the tram, all the way to St. Kilda's Beach. We exited the tram at Luna Park, a little theme park area with a rollercoaster going around it entirely. It wasn't opened today so we decided to move on to the actual beach.

We strolled along the beach for some time untill we reached Captain Cooks monument. From there we went up to the streets again to find some place to eat. We found a restaurant named 2 doors down (reminded me of a rockband) and had some local beers and a shepherd's pie for each of us.

After this fantastic lunch we looked up a local music store up in the city centre again. I wanted a guitar to keep practising, but the cheapest they had were over 150 dollars. So instead we went back to the hotel to check out the Australian version of 'Marktplaats' and found a nice guitar there, which we will pick up tomorrow.

From here we went to the Immigration museum to look at the past of Australia, when immigration was a lot more strict than nowadays. We only had about 40 minutes before it closed, but we got to see most of it. It was still quite early (5 pm) so we decided to add a last stop for the day: Young and Jackson. The bar we set foot in the first day of Melbourne.

On our way there we hopped on a tram, which was quite full, so we didn't get to sit down. Halfway down the road we heard a loud bang and the tram's emergency brake was used. No one was prepared for this so quite some people got smacked into something, and one woman nearly hit the floor. Luckily some people were able to catch her and she got off fine.

The tram had stopped completely and wasn't moving any further. The front doors opened and we exited to see what happened. Apparently we had hit a car which had suddenly crossed over onto the tram line. The driver wasn't hurt but there was quite a dent in the car. The tram wasn't able to move on for quite a while and since we were close to the bar we decided to walk the last bit.

We had a drink in the Young and Jackson. It only seemed right to end our last day in the same bar as we had started our stay in Melbourne. We took a tram back to the hotel and are now going to get a good night sleep, because tomorrow the real adventure starts! (Driving left of course!).

Jeremy