We were both very excited to be going into Melbourne and after breakfast we walked down to the tram stop in Coburg which took about 15 minutes. The girl on reception at the camp site had explained the new ticketing system on Melbourne's transport network to me yesterday. They had introduced a new cashless ticketing system, Myki, at the beginning of this year. You could no longer pay cash on the trams and you had to purchase a Myki card for $6 from a shop and get it topped up with $7 for a day's travel. This seemed like a good system for Melbournians but not for people like us who needed a ticket for only one day. Luckily though someone who had left the camp site yesterday had handed in a Myki card and the nice girl on reception had given it to us. When we got to the tram stop we called into Australia Post to sort out our tickets. The card that we had been given had $3.50 already on it so we got it topped up to $7. We also bought another one for $13. This done we were ready to go and waited at the tram stop. The trams are very frequent and we didn't have to wait very long. The trams are really good here and the tram network around the city is huge. There are hardly any buses here, it is nearly all trams. The trams all go down the centre of the road and when the tram stops at tram stops all cars behind have to stop and wait for the passengers to get across the road. The journey into the city took about half an hour. We had' touched on' our Myki cards and they were accepted. Coburg was on fairly high ground and we could see the city skyline in the distance. It is a pretty dramatic high rise skyline. Melbourne already appears to be far bigger than I remembered it being. What I do remember though from 20 years ago is that Melbourne had loads of graffiti everywhere, it still has in absolute abundance. I have never seen a city with as much graffiti, it is everywhere. I don't think it looks bad though as a lot of the graffiti is like art and I think that it adds a nice charm to the city. The graffiti gives the city heaps and heaps of character and I love it. We were both getting a really good vibe for Melbourne as we sat on the tram. We got off the tram in the city centre and first of all headed over to the Queen Victoria Market which was supposed to be excellent. There were stalls selling all sorts of stuff but the best bit was the food hall. There was loads of beautiful fresh fruit and veg and lots of stalls selling gorgeous breads, meats and cheeses. We decided to get some stuff for lunch and have a bit of a picnic. We bought some Turkish Bread, Hommus, Octopus, Mascarpone stuffed Apricots and some coffee and went to sit outside. The food was delicious and we were deliriously happy. There was a busker playing the guitar whilst we were eating and he was really good. We had a chat with him and he was from North Wales and here for just six weeks. After lunch we got another tram to St Kilda which is a suburb not too far away on Port Phillip Bay. It was very cosmopolitan here with lots of cafes and restaurants lining the streets. We had a walk along the jetty and had to put our fleeces on! The wind had really picked up and the wind chill was immense. We then got the tram back. When we 'touched on' our Myki cards this time one just didn't work and one was apparenty out of credit. This couldn't be the case so we just thought **** it and sat down. We had a receipt to prove we'd paid. This ticketing system is stupid and seems far too complicated. We overheard a couple of people talking on the tram about the Myki cards and they seemed confused too. Melbourne is such a big tourist city and I feel that they are making the transport too difficult and complicated for short stay visitors, they need to sort it out. The tram we got from St Kilda luckily went all the way through the city and out to Coburg. It was rush hour now and it got very busy. We thought it might take us about 45 minutes to get back, we were on it for nearly an hour and a half and were knackered when we got off. With a delirious tiredness kicking in neither of us were thinking straight and we missed the road we should have gone down to get back to the caravan park. We found it eventually but collapsed exhausted when we got back. As we hadn't done our dishes from last night and this morning Jay went off to the camp kitchen to wash them. She was tired and not in the mood for the 'German' shena****ns that ensued. The Germans generally are really annoying and very selfish. When Jay got to the camp kitchen there were about six Germans sat outside and about four inside. They had taken the place over as they invariably do. They were frying up some sort of putrid and foul smelling sausages but none of them were using the sink. Jay started to do the dishes and this horrible, arrogant 20 something German girl came over and moved Jay from the sink 3 times to fill up the kettle. Then she came over and put her bowl and plate down right next to our dishes. She was stood so close to Jay that it was offensive. She seriously invaded Jay's personal space, so much so that Jay said to her 'Do you think you could step back from me please because I don't like you breathing on my neck'. So she responded by saying 'can't you let me just wash up these dishes?'. Because Jay was tired and ****** off with her because of her bad attitude Jay told her that she would have to wait. There was no please or any hint of niceness from this arrogant and selfish German girl. The cheeky cow, they'd taken over the place and she expected to use our water with our washing up liquid in it. She then said something in German to her friends and they all started looking at Jay and laughing, the cheeky arrogant sods. It might seem from this blog that the Germans are being picked on but they really are selfish and think of no one but themselves. Anyhow dishes done we made ourselves a lovely tea and crashed ahead of another big day in Melbourne tomorrow. Also tomorrow evening we have a big ferry journey to Tasmania to look forward to.