Well, we arrived in Melbourne!
We left for the airport on Wednesday, at 1:30 in the afternoon, and arrived in Melbourne at 10 am on Friday. Long trip, but actually, pleasant. Air New Zealand is excellent. Even the food was good! The new personal entertainment features are great, although the choice of movies is not to my taste. I watched TV shows and listened to music.
The weather, in Melbourne, is similar to home, high of 18, mostly cloudy.
We are doing a home exchange, and it is great. The neighborhood is upscale, no monster homes, very nice, quiet, lots of gren space. It helps that spring has started, and lots of flowers. Our new "home" is very spacious and clean, and has a lovely garden.
The couple we are exchanging with left lots of provisions. An interesting feature is that there is no basement.
After we unpacked we decided to do some shopping. It's been a while since I have driven on the left side. Both of us started out by going to the wrong side of the car, but being university grads we solved that problem in no time.
The mall we visited is huge, twice the size of Lime Ridge. The big supermarket is Woolworth. We checked the store, but decided to shop after looking around. When we got back, both of us felt disoriented, because things weren't as we remembered them. I knew we hadn't slept much in two days, but this was weird. When we checked out I asked the lady if there were two stores, and there are two Woolworth supermarkets, close to each other, in the same mall!!
I was in India for over a month, and I only found a total of two small grocery stores, and here there are two big supermarkets in the same mall!!
I like this country.
After our shopping we, of course, couldn't find the car in the parking lot. What do you expect! Two sleep deprived tourists looking for a silver Mazda, license plate not remembered, in a huge parking lot. We did find it. Our other choice was to wait till everyone had left, and take the car left over.
Luckily it didn't come to that.
We drove home and I went to bed at 4, and slept till 3, when I started this blog.
It been great so far, and we are looking forward to our first trip into Melbourne later today.
Have fun
Ralf
We left for the airport on Wednesday, at 1:30 in the afternoon, and arrived in Melbourne at 10 am on Friday. Long trip, but actually, pleasant. Air New Zealand is excellent. Even the food was good! The new personal entertainment features are great, although the choice of movies is not to my taste. I watched TV shows and listened to music.
The weather, in Melbourne, is similar to home, high of 18, mostly cloudy.
We are doing a home exchange, and it is great. The neighborhood is upscale, no monster homes, very nice, quiet, lots of gren space. It helps that spring has started, and lots of flowers. Our new "home" is very spacious and clean, and has a lovely garden.
The couple we are exchanging with left lots of provisions. An interesting feature is that there is no basement.
After we unpacked we decided to do some shopping. It's been a while since I have driven on the left side. Both of us started out by going to the wrong side of the car, but being university grads we solved that problem in no time.
The mall we visited is huge, twice the size of Lime Ridge. The big supermarket is Woolworth. We checked the store, but decided to shop after looking around. When we got back, both of us felt disoriented, because things weren't as we remembered them. I knew we hadn't slept much in two days, but this was weird. When we checked out I asked the lady if there were two stores, and there are two Woolworth supermarkets, close to each other, in the same mall!!
I was in India for over a month, and I only found a total of two small grocery stores, and here there are two big supermarkets in the same mall!!
I like this country.
After our shopping we, of course, couldn't find the car in the parking lot. What do you expect! Two sleep deprived tourists looking for a silver Mazda, license plate not remembered, in a huge parking lot. We did find it. Our other choice was to wait till everyone had left, and take the car left over.
Luckily it didn't come to that.
We drove home and I went to bed at 4, and slept till 3, when I started this blog.
It been great so far, and we are looking forward to our first trip into Melbourne later today.
Have fun
Ralf
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