Day 9 - Exploring Melbourne on Easter Sunday Despite being away from home, the Easter Bunny / Bilby found us on the road. Today we trammed it back into the city and made our way to the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) and to the Australian Sports Museum. Unfortunately it was an "event day" so tours of the MCG weren't operating, but we managed to do a lap of the museum before it closed early for the sporting event on for the afternoon. The museum covered a...

Day 8 - exploring Melbourne This morning we got our heads around the complicated tram ticketing system and caught ourselves a tram into the city. Not really sure how the philosophy of encouraging people to take public transport works when it cost us four times what it cost to park the car in the city yesterday. Yes, part of the cost was a one-off for setting up the ticket cards for each of us - but really - even without that, it would have still been double the ...