Melbourne Trip ( part 2)

BOO YAA! I'll continued my Melbourne journey. This time we went to State of Library where you can find a lot of books. Many students go to there to discuss or find more knowledge. The design of this building was so amazing. Seriously, I really amazed with every Australian building. I came there just to take a photo, definitely.

There was a lot of sign "Quiet Room" which means we may not talk if it is not necessary. Just after that, we hurried to Brighton Beach, the bathing boxes. We used train that go to Sandringham and stoped at Middle Brighton or Brighton beach. Both of the station can reach to Brighton Beach. You can see more of Melbourne train here. 

From Middle Brighton or Brighton Beach station takes about 30mins walking to bathing boxes. Near the Middle Brighton station there were many fashion shop or restaurant.

One Tree

Mind the gap (Dumb ways to die)

Then, we continued to St.Kilda to see penguin. I know many people prefer to go to Philip Island. However, it'll take 3 hours to go to there. Thus, we chose St.Kilda. It is still within Melbourne and we can see penguin live freely there. From Middle Brighton station, we directly went to Balaclava station, then continued using bus to St.Kilda. But, make sure that you are already there at 5.30. The penguins will shown when the sun goes down.

After visiting penguin on St. Kilda, we went back to city centre by using tram no 96 and stopped at Crown. It is a place for gambling. They also has foodcourt on there. Below 18 are not allowed to enter the gambling area.

We found at QV Village a supermarket named BIG W, where the we do payment by ourself. The items there quite cheap and many people like to shop there. It was still open when we arrived there, about 9.40 pm, and close right after we made the payment (haha, so lucky, right?).

Surely, when we travel by ourselves, we may get lost. Thus, it is important for you to have ability to understand map rampantly. More over, brave to ask is also very essential.

My friend had told me that Hardware Society is a hot place in Melbourne that offers a good meals. Thus we went there, but we need to wait 1 hour to get table there. Because we were too hungry at that time, we decided to eat at other places first.

cost around $15-20 each

We also went to Melbourne central first and took a look at there. After rambling about 20 mins we were heading back to Hardware Society.

Melbourne Central

Queuing at Hardware Society

Pork belly with egg (middle right), Baked Egg (low left), and Lobster Egg Benedict(low right)

It was a good brunch. I really like pork belly with egg the most. The pork is so delicious plus some vegetables underneath. The Baked Egg also was so good, however, it tasted little bit too salty. While the Lobster egg was so refreshing, the freshness of the lobster melted with egg match perfectly in mouth. After finishing our brunch, we were heading to South Yarra area to take some photos. Because we were told that it was a pretty place there, there was also a bank (river).

We also visited National Gallery of Victoria, but it also closed when we arrived there. We directly headed to Shrine of Remembrance. It is a huge area where was built as a memorial to the men and woman of Victoria who served in World War.

We also visited Zumbo, Adriana Zumbo's pattisserie. Like I mention on previous blog, he is very famous on Australia. Actually, I wanted to try the red velvet cake, however it was not available in slice. We bought the macarons, and it was so good. However, personally I still prefer Lamaison Medan ><.

Macaron cost $2-2.5 each,beef niche $4.5, green cake $4

For the last destination, we went to Web Bridge, a bridge over Yarra river. It is nicer when we visit at night, because the light will be turned on. After that we were going back to our home stay to pick our luggage and straight away to airport.

When we were in Melbourne, there was a demonstration by one people who stated "STOP RACISM" in the middle of road. I don't what's going on at that time, but it was quite in order. We also saw a lot of delman there near Flinder Station.

I have taken some pictures at our homestay. The room was very tidy and comfortable.

That's all for my Melbourne trip. I really happy that I could spent my holiday with my family in Australia. It was a great opportunity to explore Australia by our self. Thankyou for your reading, I hope that this blog can give any help for you. Please follow my blog and give some comments at below. You can ask anything, and I will give my best in answering it.

Your sincerely,

Phoby