Melourne

What a way to end my stay in Australia and be in Melbourne. This is by far my favorite city. The rumors were true and it does remind me of Portland, Oregon. The art and music scene sores high and the people are great. Melbourne lies on a river bank that feeds into the ocean. Pretty much like Portland.

Anyways, the first day I arrived on the train my friend Clare (from Ireland) met me and we jumped back on the train inland to her house. This house has the whole vintage feel to it. Oldschool flower wallpaper on one side and white and pink lined paper on the opposite side. The apartment is huge. She had 4 roommates, me and Shelly. So there was a lot of people staying here for the next week.

The next day I headed into town to explore. The city was known for graffiti. It's legal. You can walk down the street and find some random alleyway and there will be world famous graffiti from artist that I know. So cool. I probably took 400 pictures there. I'll update on facebook soon. I hung out there pretty much all day. Went to dome museums and just walked the City. Melbourne is really cool.

Day after that we went down to the park and had a big BBQ with all of her Irish friends. Well she only hangs out with Irish. Its super hard to understand anything they say, and if they have a drink or two its worthless trying to figure out what they were talking about. I just nod my head and say yea.

So far the night life wasn't too popular with all of us. They do have a huge nightlife but they all work and each day I probably walk 10 km. So I'm exhausted. Her roommate, Jack had these cards that showed 52 different places to check out in Melbourne. All art related. So each day I tried to find these places. I ended up finding around 10 of them and ran out of time. Tomorrow I head to Bali. I'm super excited and can't wait. Sorry for the short and late post, hopefully the pictures will explain more of what Melbourne is about.

-Sean