Lune Bakery

Mrs G decided that sleeping almost the entirety of the flight over wasn’t enough and promptly decided to sleep in this morning. So me, the ever loving husband, legged it over half the Melbourne CBD to the esteemed Lume bakery for what has been voted the best croissants in the world, I mean you know these were good when you saw the line of business people, students, tourist and construction workers waiting in the line outside the bakery. One guy passing commented to me that “ is this a line for the bakery, it must be a good one?” before I had chance to mutter in the affirmative the three construction workers in front of me complete with hard hats and yellow vests answered lovingly about the merits of the pastries.

I decided on a Ham and cheese croissant , almond croissant and lemon curd croissant and tracked back to the hotel (along with a flat white to help me on the journey back) in fairness they were good but I have had better in Paris and especially Copenhagen who for me are the unrivalled experts in all things breakfast pastry related

Immigration museum

So with Wifey finally awake, nourished and fully functioning wheels complete with seat we ventured out into the rain ( I know right). Luckily we didn’t have far to go until we reached our first stop, the immigration museum, we spent ages here, the museum itself was interesting but what really held our imagination was two special exhibitions they had on, one a amazing interactive display tracing both the restoration work of Notre Dame in Paris and the fuller history.

Deb’s loved this however I was more taken by the second exhibit a celebration of all things joy. This was delightful and included amongst other things a joy generator, a full mock up of a video store from the late 80,s early 90,s and a big fluffy rabbit.

Skydeck

Melbourne had lived up to its reputation of being four seasons in one day and the rain but a distant memory (we had lost track of time and spent most of the day experiencing joy and French gothic craftsmanship) so we headed over the Yarra river to Eureka towers and the skydeck, the tallest observation tower in the southern hemisphere. We timed it right so we saw the sunset and it was spectacular.

Fed square and the Yarra river

From there we made our way to the Yarra river against the breathtaking Melbourne skyline , a quick sneaky cut through Flinders street station got us to Fed square which was in the main part disappointing we did however get some snaps of the iconic Flinders street station probably the most famous building in all of Melbourne.

By this time we were well and truly worn out so my call that the hotel was close enough to walk to was not the best received, especially the day after when Deb’s found out we could have taken the free tram which stopped just outside our hotel.

That said by now we were hungry so a quick call just up the road from the hotel to a really nice Aussie restaurant called Henry and the fox for a sourdough streak sandwich and a falafel salad (guess who had what) washed down with a peanut butter old fashioned and a pineapple soda (again you do the guessing).

Now the plan was to write this up overnight but someone got back to the hotel and promptly fell asleep.