Fourth Day---Melbourne

Flinders Station

After breakfast, Tanis and I were on our great adventure into the unknown...Melbourne. We caught a tram into the city, and then walked a couple of blocks to a main train station, Flinders.

Looking down the train

There we struggled with our Myki cards, which are the cards that have to be read whenever you enter or leave a station. Successfully coping with the card reader, we then caught a train to a suburb named Gardenvale. Gardenvale is the site of a quilt shop (of course!) and was as good a destination as any. We made it to Amitie (with an accent over the e) and found it to be a bright and cheery shop.

Tanis perusing fat quarters

Collins Street tram,
a moving Miller ad

After a pleasant time there, we reversed our journey and ended up on Collins Street in downtown Melbourne. This is the Park Avenue of Melbourne, and we had a enjoyable time walking down the street and window shopping. Everything, including fabric, is so expensive, or we are so cheap, that we don't buy much.

Our floating home

We then caught the tram back to the ship, and thus to our floating home. We did see an extremely talented ventriloquist tonight in the showroom---Matilda and Patrick Murray. Patrick Murray is the ventriloquist, not Matilda, who is from Jamica, mon.

Leaving Melbourne