Sunday 25 November 2012

Eureka!!

On Friday we started late, only heading into the city for about lunchtime. We found a jacket potato place, called Spud Bar, that does extravagant toppings, I was in heaven! We then used our free tickets to the Eureka Skydeck, we had received these when we bought the Great Ocean Road tour although we weren't initially that fussed it turned out to be a really cool experience. The Eureka tower is the tallest building in the southern hemisphere, standing 279 metres tall. It offered great views of the whole city of Melbourne and luckily it was a clear day. Cleverly the observation floor has fixed viewing tubes which point out key landmarks in the city and beyond,  definitely something other tall buildings could use. We then spent the rest of the evening in a Belgian beer garden with Tom and Tessa and their friends.

Saturday we cooked an epic fry up, although Tom insisted we had asparagus with it, which Lloyd found odd. Then we headed out of the city for a small town called Warburton. This is way up the Yarra river from Melbourne and it was a nice drive through wine country to get there. We chilled out in the sun by the river fora  few hours. All of us managed to get in the river although only for a very short time as it was freezing. Once the heat died down a bit we took a walk along the banks, spotting the wildlife and some locals bobbing along on lilos. The days heat had tired us out so we headed back for a BBQ and some cool beers in the garden.

Cow up tree - perfectly normal in OZ apparently
Lloyd's on the edge
The MCG and Rod Laver Arena
A ghost is terrorising Melbourne
Trying a Lamington - Spong, jam, choclate and coconut - not bad actually
Stroll along the Yarra

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