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• 19 January (Thu) First walk north of hotel. Trams/Streetcars are the main mass transit downtown with commuter rail feeding the suburbs
• The Victoria (State) Parliment building
• Kathy chats with an upscale hotel doorman after he escorts her across the street to the Parliment building.
• Our Parliment guide in the House of Commons
• A beautiful table in the library
• The view outside our room in the Mercure Melbourne Hotel
• Atrium Area near Flinders St Train Staion
• We went to the Open on the 20th and 21st
• Refreshments on the Yarra River
• The National Gallery of Victoria
• View of Melbourne Park Tennis Center. Rod Laver Arena on the right and the Melbourne Cricket Ground on the left.
• Looking down at the Flinders Station area from the top of the Eureka Tower
• Melbourne Park Tennis Center, Rod Laver Arena left, Hisense Arena right
• The Eureka Tower is behind the Southgate Center on the Yarra River
• Crossing over the river after the Eureka Tower
• 22 January (Sun) after the Open. There was a hot rod/classic car show at the Royal Exhibition Building.
• Love those old 1957 Chevrolets
• There was a long line for this show
• Nice facility and right next to the Melbourne Museum
• Melbourne Museum entrance
• The main building
• Entrance to the Indigenous Peoples area
• The Blue Whale is earths largest mammal
• Some of Australias highly venomous snakes
• Just one of the aisles at the Queen Victoria Market
• We bought some Aussie hats here
• We met Phred and Lynne Ohman at our hotel. They are living in Melbourne and are friends of my niece Karen.
• We walked over to the Southgate Center for a visit and supper
• Having a nice supper at the Southgate Center on the river
• There were some nice street artists along the way
• On our way back to the train station
• I liked the decorations in front of this building
• These pylons were shooting out flames on a regular basis with lots of noise