I N F U S I O N: Australia, Victoria

I've been receiving comments that I write too much about my travels. Less talking. More Pics. OK so here goes!... :P

I like Melbourne. It's a really nice place and being there make you understand why it's constantly rated top three as the "World's Most Livable City" by The Economist since 2002. Practically you can find everything here... arts, commerce, education, sports, tourism and especially GOOD FOOD. It's such a blend of different cultures that you can get practically any type of food over here.

Although the city skyline is dominated by skyscrapers, walking through the city would give you a glimpse of Melbourne's past such as The Queen Victoria Market, St. Paul's and St. Patrick's Cathedrals, Old Melbourne Gaol, The Parliament House and various other notable building and parks around that gives it such a diverse character to this city.

Melbourne: Blending the Old and the New

Although the Yarra River is one of the main theme of the city, one of the pressing issues that the city face is water shortage due to drought and low rainfall. The irony of it is we were caught in the rain a couple of times when we were there.... :p. There's a water restriction that applies to every household, where you'll be fined for overusing the household quota!. So when we take a bath there's a timer that we have to turn, it sorts of limits your water usage to 3 minutes max!

Mebourne's sky scrapers...

Melbourne is also home to the World's Largest Tram network. The best part is there's one tram that goes around Melbourne City dedicated for tourist and it's free.Michelle and I used it extensively as you can drop on/off and different points in the city up to 6pm. We also used the train to get to and fro from my sister's place in Huntingsdale. It's pretty cheap on weekends, you can hop on and off for the whole day for only AUD6.80 all over zone 1. As Melly has only 2 zones, you can imagine zone 1 covers quite alot of areas accept the outskirts!.

The commercial tram (above) and the maroon city tram dedicated for tourists!

Art and fun in Melbourne

Shopping around Melly: Harbourtown and Queen Victoria

Finally the gem of all pictures that I took over in Melbourne. I'm surprised and how the pics turn out as ALL the previous pics were either blueish or dull. My 5 year old camera is really getting very moody (or really bad photo skills!).... basically this is taken at the Melbourne Docklands...