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Jun. 30th, 2012 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
astra_auroraWelp, I'm back from Melbourne. It was... interesting. I haven't been there for years, so I couldn't remember much about it. Things I learned include:
1: Melbourne is fucking freezing. Seriously, if you go there in the winter, wear layers and take a warm coat.
2: Melbourne is disturbingly similar to Sydney. I don't just mean that the two cities have buildings built by similar architects and house the same corporations- I kept turning onto streets and thinking I was back on [insert street here]. It was surreal.
3: Melbourne actually has a decent public transport system. I'm not used to that.
4: Melbourne to me seemed like a cross between Sydney and Canberra with a little Newcastle thrown in. Nice place, but there didn't seem to be much about it that was original. I didn't see enough of Newcastle to comment, but every city, to me, should have something really unique about it, be it a landmark, a building, whatever. Canberra, besides being a completely artificial city, has the War Memorial and Parliament House and so on. Sydney has the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge and so on. Melbourne... well, if there is something unique there, I didn't see it. And don't tell me that the MCG counts. Every bloody city in Australia has a sports ground.
5: The exhibition of Mesopotamian artefacts was beautiful.
5.5: Seriously, they had these little weights carved into the shape of ducks. They were so damn cute.
5.75: Why the hell do they never have any of the stuff you actually want to buy in the shop?
6: As were the Botanical Gardens.
7: Having been a fan of Kerry Greenwood's Corinna Chapman and Phryne Fisher series (both of which are set in Melbourne, the former in the present day and the latter in 1928), it was pretty surreal to suddenly come across some of the streets and places featured in her books. I don't remember all of them, of course, but suddenly encountering His Majesty's Theatre and walking up Little Bourke Street was weird- I kept wondering if it was really like that in 1928.
8: I had about ten fights with my sister. Fucking bitch.
9: Note to self: never go into the exhibition of animal life in the museum again. (They had a wall of preserved spider skins. Scared the fuck out of me.)
10: I walked around for hours at a time and barely got breaks to rest. My legs and feet have not stopped hurting.
11: I'm going to dye my hair again. Don't know what.
That was my Thursday, Friday and Saturday. How was yours?
1: Melbourne is fucking freezing. Seriously, if you go there in the winter, wear layers and take a warm coat.
2: Melbourne is disturbingly similar to Sydney. I don't just mean that the two cities have buildings built by similar architects and house the same corporations- I kept turning onto streets and thinking I was back on [insert street here]. It was surreal.
3: Melbourne actually has a decent public transport system. I'm not used to that.
4: Melbourne to me seemed like a cross between Sydney and Canberra with a little Newcastle thrown in. Nice place, but there didn't seem to be much about it that was original. I didn't see enough of Newcastle to comment, but every city, to me, should have something really unique about it, be it a landmark, a building, whatever. Canberra, besides being a completely artificial city, has the War Memorial and Parliament House and so on. Sydney has the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge and so on. Melbourne... well, if there is something unique there, I didn't see it. And don't tell me that the MCG counts. Every bloody city in Australia has a sports ground.
5: The exhibition of Mesopotamian artefacts was beautiful.
5.5: Seriously, they had these little weights carved into the shape of ducks. They were so damn cute.
5.75: Why the hell do they never have any of the stuff you actually want to buy in the shop?
6: As were the Botanical Gardens.
7: Having been a fan of Kerry Greenwood's Corinna Chapman and Phryne Fisher series (both of which are set in Melbourne, the former in the present day and the latter in 1928), it was pretty surreal to suddenly come across some of the streets and places featured in her books. I don't remember all of them, of course, but suddenly encountering His Majesty's Theatre and walking up Little Bourke Street was weird- I kept wondering if it was really like that in 1928.
8: I had about ten fights with my sister. Fucking bitch.
9: Note to self: never go into the exhibition of animal life in the museum again. (They had a wall of preserved spider skins. Scared the fuck out of me.)
10: I walked around for hours at a time and barely got breaks to rest. My legs and feet have not stopped hurting.
11: I'm going to dye my hair again. Don't know what.
That was my Thursday, Friday and Saturday. How was yours?
