Out Of Range: Melbourne & Adelaide

At first, we had to catch our flight to Melbourne...again flying in the night and Mark and me were quite tired when we arrived. Though we didn't waste any time and did a free walking tour on the first day. In total, we have seen a lot of places such as the botanical gardens (again), Chinatown (again), the Melbourne Cricket Ground as well as the National Sports Museum, the Victoria Market and we had a nice view onto the skyline from the top of the Eureka Tower. We also experienced an extreme climate change in one day. On the one day, temperatures went beyond 40 and on the next day in matter of an hour it started to rain and temperatures dropped by 20 degrees. Besides, we met Rainer and Mareike who were staying in the same room in our hostel. They are really nice and we went out together one night. We exchanged phone numbers and we might see them again in Sydney because they are also there around NYE. Looking forward to it!

Melbourne city

downtown

Melbourne skyline

Botanical Gardens

view onto the skyline from the Eureka tower

On Monday afternoon, we were heading to the airport to fly to Adelaide. Arriving in the late afternoon, we just checked in to our hostel and walked around downtown to eat something and finally we ended up in a bar having a drink. At the next day we met Steffen, a friend from back home who is currently doing his world trip. Check out his travel blog: www.steffenworldtrip.blogspot.de
He has traveled to a lot of countries yet!

In Adelaide we hired free bikes and rode around the city to see - who knew? - the botanical gardens, but also the Adelaide Oval (it's a sports stadium), the Central Market which was next to Chinatown. And we went to the Montefiore Hill were we had a nice view onto the city (more or less, the Oval is covering a lot). It was nice to meet Steffen, we might see each other again in New Zealand. After Steffen had to go because he had booked a bus to Melbourne in the evening, Mark and me went to the hill again to see the sunset. We were quite excited about our rental car that we picked up on the following day but you can read about that in the next post ;)

Steffen, Mark and me on our bike tour