Melbourne & Canadian Connections

 Melbourne is much bigger than I expected.  Many of the buildings here were built in the 1800’s and often by French designers. The result is beautiful building facades with lots of stained glass archways.  

New construction has obviously considered esthetics. City design took into account details such as the size of hoop skirts in the 1800’s. We are staying 4 days in the central business district and cannot even begin to see half of everything here. We are on the top dizzying floor of the hotel here.

   We went to see Jordan Peterson (U of T & Harvard prof) from T.O. in a stadium completely sold out with 13,000 in attendance. I was thrilled to go and listen and was not disappointed. He lectured for over 2 hours. Jordan is back on Twitter and threw a dart (or two) at Trudeau (hahaha). He has 3,500,000 followers and is about to have 3,500,001. 

   The next night we got tickets to see Hamilton. I was worried because I thought the Australian accent would make it impossible to understand the rap but surprise they used Cndn accents . We were delighted.

   We have done touristy things here which involves walking for hours. Golf has left us in shape to walk but we do find that as soon as we reach 4 hours (hmmm…. the time for a round ) we are ready to drop. We have been to the royal gardens, the laneway walks, the city tram, the parliament building, the shopping district and other things.