Melbourne is known as having one of the highest quality of life scores of anywhere in the world. It didn't look like that on the way in from the airport, though. There's lots of building works and lots of industry. When we got to the bus station, there also seemed to be a very large number of crazy people - even more than London. The next morning, though, everything seemed a lot nicer. The city is on a grid system and is walkable. Their public transport is also amazing. They have hundreds of tram routes and their suburban train lines are all hidden underground. Whilst here we took a trip to Melbourne zoo just to make sure we got to see all of Australia's wildlife. We saw Giant Red kangaroos, koalas, wombats, emus and a duck-billed
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