Our First Day in Melbourne

Our day started with a decent hotel breakfast.

We made contact with Andy Gloyns and arranged to meet him at the entrance to Flinders railway station at 12:30 for lunch.

“Under the clocks at Flinders” where people meet in Melbourne.

It was a fresh and sunny summer morning and we walked down to the river, then to Federation square and into the shopping streets to pick up a few things that we were missing.

One of the charms of Melbourne are the narrow alleyways that link the main thoroughfares, many lined with independently run coffee shops and restaurants. We stopped for coffee at one of them and a little later, having met up with Andy, we had lunch at a long, narrow, sushi bar.

After lunch we made our way to the Immigration museum then back to the hotel for a snooze.

Early evening we had a drink at the Curtin rooftop bar followed by an excellent steak at R on Flinders Lane.