St. Kilda

After four nights around the busy built up city centre we moved to an area just outside of the centre called St. Kilda. Given that it was only fifteen minutes away on a very speedy (or not) tram it was like a different city. It is so relaxed and chilled out with a little beach and a Great Yarmouth style pleasure beach theme park thing.

The day before we left central Melbourne we had met up with Samantha's friend Lizzie and her husband Dave who luckily for us, kindly offered to help us carry our bags, which is quite fortunate as we've amassed quite a few bags now and Melbourne was clean out of packhorses and donkeys.

We stayed in St. Kilda for about five days which although is a nice area that is less polluted there was little to actually see so that was quite long enough. The highlight (for me at least) was supposed to be visiting Albert park where the Australia F1 grand prix takes place. But when we actually got there it was just a big park with some short sections of road around it that look nothing like a track. Apparently they link them all together using the public roads to make the race track. I was completely underwelmed, however there is a nice lake that we had a walk along (didn't really make it more exctiting though).

By now we had put together a plan of how we intended to traverse the east coast and had decided to stay in Melbourne for a few more days. So we moved back to the Urban Central hostel where we had been staying before, this time to share a room with Lizzie and Dave.