Travel Date // March 2, 2018
Free tram. Walked 16 miles. 🙃
Melbourne has a wonderful free tram around the major downtown sites, but depending on how you time it, it may just be faster to just walk than waiting around for the tram…which is what we did.
We started a the State Library of Victoria; went to the Royal Exhibition Building; down to Saint Patrick’s Cathedral; enjoyed walking through a park that included Captain Cook’s Cottage (relocated from England), The Fairies Tree, and a Model Tudor Village; walked across the William Barak Bridge; by the Federation Bells (on Batman Avenue); stopped by an IGA for a cucumber and hummus lunch; admired some more street art at Hosier Ln, walked past The Ian Potter Center (art gallery), St Paul’s Cathedral, Flinders Street (railway and metro hub), across Princes Bridge (one of the oldest river crossings in Australia), and explored Queen Victoria Gardens.
We stopped by the Shrine of Remembrance (commemorating World War I), enjoyed more street art at Flinders Court Street Art and AC/DC Lane Graffiti (and stumbled across some F1 car models in preparation for the grand prix…but Peter wasn’t following F1 yet, so didn’t call this out at the time), then hopped on a free tram up to Etihad Stadium (now Marvel Stadium), popped into an Aldi for groceries, dropped them off at our hotel…then after already hitting over 30,000 steps for the day, went out AGAIN to see the city lights at night! Fun times, but boy were we exhausted. We clocked a total of over 35,000 steps or 16 miles of walking in 1 day.
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