G'day mates: Well after a great uneventful 20 hour flight, we landed in Melbourne at noon Sun. - I think that's 4 in the mroning about 4 days ago your time! Anyway, sky was blue and it was absolutely gorgeous out. We were taken to the "beautiful beautiful" Langham Hotel, exquisite in every way. We had a free day today because our tour doesn't start til Mon. so first we went to see some lovely botannical gardens. Then we started wandering around the fabulous architecture all along the Yarra River which our hotel banks on. The architecture was a mix of beautiful and classic buildings together with spectacular sky scrapers. There were all kinds of bistros and cafes along the river, and then we wandered into a whole cultural mecca. Sort of like Hummingbird, AGO, and
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