Wanderers // ThirstyInMelb #2

Agenda for today:
- wander and discover the city

Day 2 was a pretty chill day, just to walk around the city and snap some photos. This was how most of our trip went, walking around free and public spaces taking pictures.
We were still getting used to the beauty Melbourne is, so for the first few days we were there, we took photos along the route to the train station from our house. Such tourists we are...
BUT DO YOU SEE HOW AMAZING THE WEATHER IS????
Sunny and windy, the perfect duo, like really! You might think Nutella and banana is the couple of the century but sun and wind?????? bRuHhhhh

*shoutout to my cousins (kakak Nad and kakak Chacha) who helped us plan the trip by giving us tips and for letting us use your GoPro heh*

This is Iffah using Fay, my film camera! And I'm so proud that it turned out so nicely!!! I'll share them with you soon!

First stop of the day; Flinders Street Station!

Apparently, according to Afiq and Zamir (Iffah's friend's who live in Melbourne), they're in talks of tearing down the current Flinders Street Station to build a more modern and efficient train station. As you can see from here, there's a lot of train lines that pass through this station, like a train station interchange so I'm proud to say, I've visited this vibrant train station before it might get destroyed.

From Flinders Street, we tried to make our way to Hosier Lane, one of the must visit places according to every guide we read about Melbourne. Of course some might say it's overrated because it's "just a street with graffiti" (quoted from Zariff, brother to Zaki and Zamir, Iffah's friend) but vandalism is a serious thing in Singapore so I think it's worth a visit.

As mentioned above, we tried to make our way to Hosier Lane with just Google Maps but we were still unfamiliar with Melbourne... Thank goodness there were like volunteers around Flinders Street Station helping travellers like us, so we asked one of them and they were even prepared with print out maps to help us! The volunteer even suggested that we visit AC/DC Lane as well, which is also an alley with graffiti and art but more dedicated to music and rock and roll, as the name suggests hahaha

These alleys were lodged between office buildings and such, so you'll be surrounded by people wearing suits and ties and smart attire, carrying their take-away lunches to eat while they finish their reports or something. I actually liked it, observing these people in their office street style stuff, damn did they look good.

We walked around the area for a bit, just going wherever seemed cool and we ended up at Birrarung Marr, eating our cereal bars we packed from home and just people watching.
So far, we've only had our cereal bars and maybe some toast before we left home so we were reaaaally hungry hahaha
You could easily walk from one place to another in the city area, might be a little long but you could still walk. The weather was amazing so we were like eh why not just walk to Melbourne Central, which was where we planned to do some shopping and try the well known Lord of the Fries.
Nothing much happened while we walked to Melbourne Central except that we walked in the wrong direction for like 10 minutes before we realised and consulted the print out map (thank you volunteer from earlier) and made our way, the correct way to Melbourne Central and foooooodddddd!!!!!

So tbh, Lord of the Fries doesn't have the best burgers. The vegan patties were mush but the fries.... THE FRIESSSS ugh even now, I crave for the shoe-string fries.

Another must visit is the State Library of Victoria! Take the lift to the 5th floor and just admire the silence and the magnificent view!

Ended the day shopping at Melbourne Central and going over to Coles in Footscray for grocery shopping!!!

*another shoutout to Iffah, Mao and Nazirah for looking forward to my blog posts!!! I love every one of my readers!!! There aren't much of y'all but still love y'all*

That's it for Day 2! So much more stuff happening in the days to come! I'm so excited to share it with you guys! Hope you guys have enjoyed reading my posts so far!
Till next time!

xoxo
Squidkid