The Realto Tower

We had been planning to go up the Realto Tower since arriving in Melbourne, but hadn't got around to actually doing it. Luckily for us Lizzie is a real motivator and said that we could meet her and Dave at Krispy Kreme and then all go up the tower together.

We had 2 hours to kill until our designated meeting time and place, so we decided to walk the mile to the train station from the hostel and buy our backtracker rail/bus passes. Just as we were about to hand over the credit card to pay for them, the cashier said "I need to see your passports". Well, we didn't have them and she wasn't going to accept our drivers licences so we had to walk a 2 mile round trip back to the hostel for our sodding passports and back to the station. Not chuffed!!!!

3 miles later and clutching our rail/bus passes, we crawled into Krispy Kreme where Lizzie and Dave were already in the queue. Taking pity on us we gave them our order and put up our weary feet. Let me tell you, a cuppa (or what the Aussies think is a cuppa) and a strawberries and cream filled doughnut was heaven.

The Realto Tower was basically like all the other very high towers we've been to so far. However the sunset over Melbourne was stunning and the views amazing both in daylight and night. Alan took about 300 pictures and went outside on the balcony, I stayed inside and admired the views.

We watched the Realto film about Melbourne, which had the cheesiest theme tune we have ever heard. The 4 of us were singing along by the end of the 20 minute film.