Back in Melbourne! We settled well into our studio apartment last night and enjoyed a pleasant sleep until late morning. The weather was looking a tad grey, but nevertheless we reacquainted ourselves with Melbourne CBD, wondering to the information point to suss out stuff to do. Since we left, the CBD has acquired a new free tram zone (rather than free circular tram) in the city centre - noted for future travels. The architecture and structural engineering around the city was certainly still as interesting as I remembered - each building seems to have its own character, and nothing has been forgotten.
Having collected information, we wondered back towards the Queen Victoria markets, which had various knivk knacks, as well as a thriving fruit and veg section, street food and deli items. We treated ourselves to some spicy lamb boreks for lunch, and then got enticed into buying some ridiculously cheap (but tasty!) strawberries, being advertised very loudly as "one punnet for $1, two punnets for $2 or three punnets for $3". Not sure the vendor had quite got the hang of economics of scale, but I was quite happy with my one punnet.
A nap beckoned in the afternoon; I seem to have been attacked by mosquitoes just before or on arrival into the city and many of the bites were swelling to huge discs, which was a bit grim. I figured at least if I were asleep I couldn't indulge in scratching them (wrong!).
Feeling a little better, we set off in the evening in search of dinner. Our feet took us to Chinatown where we had a lovely meal of dumplings and ginger (haha) pork, followed by some cider back at the apartment.
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