1 Our motor home adventure begins by flying from Gold Coast airport to Melbourne.
Tiger Air is the carrier, I booked them because they were cheap. Then I had all kinds of second thought as some locals we have met were telling us horror stories about them, kind like our Canadian national air line (no names mentioned) but all turned out ok.
Arrive Melbourne 1:15 and grabbed a cab to Britz (company name) to pick up our unit - it is junk so we express our disappointment and are fortunate to be able to upgrade to a Maui (better unit) as this is the height of their rental season. Our 1st night is at the Ashley Street caravan park after getting groceries at Coles. Dinner is spaghetti a la camper. The Australian open is on in Melbourne right now, sight seeing here might be crazy.
2 The first real day of exploring sees us take a city bus to downtown Melbourne and walk around, it is 41 degrees today (that is hot!) We tour an 1858 church and gauk at all of the old architecture, they really like to preserve their heritage buildings. There is a free bus that takes tourists around to see the general downtown sites, so we save our feet and ride it for the full 90 minute circuit. A hidden little alley, that goes for about three blocks, is like a large food court, any kind of food type you can imagine, each vendor has a couple of tables out front and this is where we choose to have lunch. At the day's end we take the bus back to our camper, there is no way we would have been able to negotiate city centre with "the beast". Our steak dinner is fried as the camper grill does not work. Camping can be so challenging.
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