From Tasmania i returned to Kate's halls to collect my bag and head into Melbourne to do some sightseeing around the city. Its a really nice city with a few skyscrapers and a big grid design that makes it easy to navigate. Its home to a number of stadia for cricket, rugby league and Aussie Rules Football (AFL) which i'll talk about later. The Yarra river runs through it alongside the botanical gardens. I stayed at a YHA in the centre of town, its a pretty new place, so its clean and full of nice people. Across the road from my hostel was the Melbourne Aquarium where they have a large display of penguins in an antartic style enclosure, they were sliding on their bellies across the ice and swimming around quite contently. The aquarium had
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