Gorgeous Melbourne

Melbourne, with it's unique architecture, their art, it's colorful buildings, the Melbournian bars, the friendly people, graffiti filled walls & their Grand Prix circuit is a city we found to love :). But was it better then Sydney or can u compare them??? The tree of us has a combined impression that Melbourne is less busy (normally) & the people is far more relaxed then Sydney, but then again Sydney is warmer & has the beaches near.

So u can't really compare them, since they are totally different cities. In Melbourne u don't have the post card pictures like the Opera House, Harbor bridge & bondi beach but u have stuff like graffiti, grand prix & Melbournian cafe's. A cultural hot spot with bar, restaurant and shopping delights is what Melbourne is. So we are not comparing them and simply just agreeing that we like them both, but it's really about what u want to do!!. Eks, if u want the beach life u choose Sydney, but for shopping & life u choose Melbourne :)
Anyway, Melbourne is Australia's 2 biggest city (pop 4 m) & the city is clean, friendly & well organized :). With Melbourne we found to love the fact that it's a city with a wide specter. Meaning that u can do anything here. Like downtown for tourism related stuff, take a walk down the narrow graffiti filled street's , see break dancing on the street, bar's & cafe's everywhere & if u need the beach just drive down to the great ocean road. (1 hour drive)

We can't come without mention the Formula grand prix circuit that make Melbourne go crazy for a weekend each year. We just happen to be here at that weekend. :) Just simply awesome :) :) :). Too bad the prize for the weekend race where to expensive & the fact that we had made plans for some sightseeing & drinking so we decided to just go and see the qualification rounds on Friday. Witch was an experience that words can't explain. For u that are interested,

Sebastian Vettel (Red Bul) won the race & 2'nd came Lewis Hamilton (McLaren). The circuit had so much to offer, activities like water skiing, a jet ski (vattenskoter) show, break dancing, motocross show & so much more. A theme park for adults witch there where many of. People from all over the world gathered for the circuit, making the city go crazy for 4 day's. A great experience that we will remember that for the rest of our life. :)
Other then that Melbourne offered us some sightseeing (the sightseeing spot's u can see in the picture file), but one that we want to mention is the Eureka tower
& had the most stunning view over Melbourne during night time. :)

The tower has this glass cave that takes u out away from the tower where u are standing on glass 300 meter over the ground. :) scary shit !!! Some other things we saw where one of the biggest stadiums in Australia, the MCG cricket stadium with it's 85 000 seats. A lot of sights that would make this plot be endless. So we rather sum up the funny, nice stuff that gave us good memories. :) hehe

The next day after some more sightseeing we ended up on a Mexican restaurant called Taco Bill with Mexican sombreros on our head doing shots of tequila & drinking the biggest margarita we ever has seen. Nice restaurant that was hidden away on the 2'nd floor & crowded. It where full when we came & still full when we left. People arriving all the time with no tables standing empty.

Good evening, but u could tell that it where a long time since we did tequila. Even the bartender came & told us that we are wasted & that she wished she could join us. hehe :) Into the street we ended trying as hard as we could to find our way back to the camping. We managed after maybe 3 km walk. hehe :)
Anyway, we (Betty & Julle) are still in Melbourne after Emma leaving us Sunday morning. & when u left Emma, the sun came out and we had an awesome sunset on the Docklands were we rented bikes & bicycled around Melbourne. Sorry Emma, but it will be sunny now for 4 days.... We will stay here for 1 more day we recond and from there we just see what happens cause now we don't have any plans or any place that we need to be at a .... :) nice feeling. No obligations and no worries. :) But have to split now, got some tanning to take care of. So thanx for this time & u will hear from us again soon. :) Just comment guys & thanx to all for the congratulations. :)

Ps. Emma have a nice trip back home, we miss u allready & for the rest of u that is thinking about visiting. Just come, u are welcome. Take care guys.