Melboring

"Our very first gig in Melbourne was a confrontation."

~Santiago Durango

I wouldn't say that Melbourne has been the most horrible experience of my life, but it's definitely not as great as Sydney! Oh Sydney...

Maybe I was just so hopeful, on the plane ride to Melbourne we watched a half hour video about how great Melbourne is and everything it has to offer. And then on the bus ride from the airport to the bus station, we got to watch another video about how great Melbourne is. Now, we all know the classic marketing scheme of if something isn't great keep pushing it and hopefully people will get all caught up... well it worked! I was quite excited to come to Melbourne; I was even excited that they were playing Wicked (and I've seen Wicked already...) We get here and I was enamoured by their public transportation - all the trams and such (I love a city with awesome public transportation - even if I do live in LA). Well, as quick as the cable cars passed, so went the love for Melbourne. It is mostly the result of two really stupid people. First is the woman who works at the hostel. When asked about where would be a good place to eat, we would have had better luck just asking the people checking in after us. The way this woman answered the question was as if she has never left the hostel. I would have hoped that she would have had more of a resource. We ended up going to a restaurant in China Town, which was sorta cute for basically being an alley way of Chinese (but mostly just asain influence restaurants). We had Thai food at a restaurant with horrible service.

Luckily on a search for something sweet to finish the night, we ended up at a Spanish cafe that sold coffee and churros. It was delicious! It also was a good representation of Melbourne's cafe life style. Hopefully, more fun to follow tomorrow! ;)

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