Koalas and Kangaroos: Officially in Australia

by anna | Itinerary

I’ve been a month here and still haven’t post a picture of kangaroos and/or koalas? Don’t worry, the day has arrived!

Day tour with The Real Experience

After a relaxed week, on Saturday we went on a day trip with Real Australia, a student focused travel agency, to Healesville Sanctuary and other stops along the way.

The first stop was a chocolate factory, where we had free pills of chocolate to taste. It was 10:30am and the factory was already full. We also tried melted mint chocolate, yummy.

Healesville Sanctuary

After that we drove to the zoo and the itinerary of the day was the platypus show (also known as Perry the platypus from Phineas & Ferb), then the birds show and finally the meat cake lunch, which I’ve decided that even if it’s not bad, it is not my thing.

After that, we had free time and we went to watch the kangaroos, koalas, Tasmanian demons and snakes.

Richmond winery

When we finished we went to the Richmond winery, huge vineyards. We all know I am not a wine kind of girl but I’d say the fruity reds are my favourites. We tasted all types of wines and without an exaggeration we tasted the worst and driest wines of the continent! Truth to be said, we learned how to look like we are the most professionals sommeliers of the world.

When finished we had a boomerang lesson, and I discovered it is not a science but a random luck for it to come back to you. It was pretty fun to try though.

Discovering Melbourne CBD

by anna | Itinerary

I love the city of Melbourne. It is so beautiful. Thinking that I will live here for the next six months while on a university exchange makes me very happy. I have already some favourite places.

Melbourne CBD

The first day that we went to the city CBD, we stopped at Flinders Street. It’s where we find Federation Square. We walked around for a bit, and got to Parliament, saw the cathedral and five more churches (there is one on every corner).

Melbourne Star

This week we also went to the Melbourne Star, which is Melbourne’s giant wheel. It does the complete spin with 30 minutes, the cabins are big and you have heaters on them. It was just past sunset time, so the lights of the city started to turn on while we were up. Ignoring the off voice talking about the city, we spent the entire time taking pictures and enjoying the views. As you will see in the pictures, Melbourne is a city that only has skyscrapers in the CBD and not one in the rest of the city.

Graffiti Lanes

Also in the centre of the city we can find some graffiti lanes where doing graffiti is legal so it changes quite often as new artist paint on top of old graffiti.