G'day! I am now in Australia! Perhaps unsurprisingly it is a tad warmer than NZ was when we left. From Christchurch we had a relatively short hop across the Tasman to Melbourne, our first stop in convict land. We actually landed at normal sort of hour this time, 5pm. Crazy huh? Melbourne itself is really nice place. Despite being a city of over 4 million people it has a very liveable feel to it. Our activities around Melbourne included much general wandering, a trip up the Rialto Tower for some cool views of Melbourne by day and night. Amusingly a new observation deck has opened on a bigger building so the old tallest, Rialto, are doing 2-for-1 and let you go up twice, anyone think they're feeling threatened? We also went for a tour of the
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