The day was spent split up into two groups for most of the day and it proved a lot easier to navigate and organise smaller groups of adults.

Since arriving in Melbourne, I really wanted to check out the Immigration Museum so I pitched the idea to the others and my Mum, Dad, Ed and Angie decided to join me there. Matthew and Emily decided instead to go to the Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition. I’m so glad I went, it posed some really interesting ideas about migration, most I had thought about before but some new ideas were opened up to me which I hope to write about soon after my travels take a break.

We spent a good amount of time in the museum before catching the tram down to the docklands to do some last minute present shopping.  The more time I spend in Melbourne the more I think it’s similar to London.  It has a Southbank with the artsy areas and theatres and galleries.  It has small hipsters lanes, a dockland area etc.  I can see why so many people from the UK say the would move here if they moved to Australia.  Personally, I’m not too much of a fan, I think I prefer to go somewhere smaller.

After shopping Ed and Angie had to leave us to go get ready to meet their friends Sophie and Robbie.  Because we had some spare time my Mum, Dad and I went to the James Squire Brewery by the Yarra in the Docklands.  We then went back to the hotel to freshen up, meet Matthew and Emily and get ready for dinner. By this time we were all feeling pretty exhausted and not too thrilled for dinner but we went anyway because you have to keep going when you’re travelling.  There’s no point in wasting time, you have to see as much as you can.

While Ed and Angie went to meet Sophie and Robbie for Teppanyaki, the rest of us went for a meal at Bomba an amazing Spanish Tapas place.  $45 for a 9 course tasting menu, definitely worth it and a definite recommendation. The meal was so amazing it woke us all up from the excitement. After the meal we headed upstairs to Bomba’s rooftop bar to meet Ed, Angie, Robbie and Sophie and have a couple of cocktails.  They had a really cool selection of prohibition style cocktails and I had one of the best Gin and Tonics I have ever experienced.  We headed back to the hotel feeling full, happy and tired and we all slept well.