Holidays - Days 9 & 10

Day 9 - Because we had decided to extend our stay in Melbourne for another 3 days (instead of heading to Sydney like we had originally planned) we had to find a new camping site as we were only booked to stay at Werribee until Sunday and they were booked fully booked after that. I managed to book us into another caravan park at Coburg (only 9km from he city centre) at the park we were originally thinking about staying in. We had a very windy and rainy night the night before and woke up to more rain clouds. Luckily we had just finished packing up he camper trailer just as it started raining again! We drove into Coburg and set up the trailer and had a lazy day resting. We had another gorgeous view from our campsite - this bushland and stream.

Day 10 - The commute from the new campsite to the city was much shorter - just a 15 minute walk to the tram station, then a 20 minute tram ride into Collin street station. We walked down Collin street aka Paris end of Melbourne - named that due to all the high-end shops - Gucci, Hermes, Burberry, etc.

Found this gorgeous movie theatre.

 

We jumped onto the city circle tram to go to the Melbourne Museum. I could have spent all day wandering around the exhibits - especially the dinosaurs, insects and animal sections.

I found this room fascinating - it had all the animals arranged around the room with touch screens for you to use to find out more info.

We walked outside to look at the Exhibition Centre - another gorgeous building. We didn't try to look inside as thy were busy setting up for an event.

From the museum / exhibition centre we caught a tram to Chinatown so we could finally try Yum Cha - it was delicious and worth the wait :)

After a late lunch we got back on the tram to head home.