Matt & Carla The new, the old and the gold The many archicetural styles of MelbourneWhen we began our travels and in particular the Australia section we knew very little about which stops we would make within the countries. Melbourne never really figured in our plans until we met Tania and Chris, themselves from Melbourne, on our journey to Pai in Thailand back in September. From them, other Melbourne residents and fellow travellers we heard nothing but good things about the city and by the time we arrived in Australia in mid January we had decided we definitely had to pay it a visit. Matt's ever increasing fear of flying saw us boarding a train to Melbourne from Sydney, the overnighter, we were told, would take about 11 hours, what we weren't prepared for was
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