I've never been to Melbourne as a tourist, it was always with my dad as a kid in the truck so I never got to walk down the city streets. Yesterday work sent me to Melbourne to deliver the documents we have been working on for almost 4 weeks straight so I was so happy when I finally got to hand them over. I worked out today that in those weeks I have done 81.5 hours overtime on top of my usual weekly 9-5 work. No wonder I'm feeling so fucking tired!

I don't understand how the taxis work in Melbourne. I was trying to hail a taxi but no one would stop!!! I was like wtf??? So I ended up walking from one side of the city to the other to get around because taxis just weren't stopping. I couldn't understand if I had to hail them with their lights on or off, cause sometimes they would have people with them and other times they wouldn't, yet they had their light on. Just before I had to go to the airport though I managed to get a taxi and I asked him wtf is wrong with Melbourne taxis. He explained to me that you have to go to a taxi rank as taxi drivers think you are only going a short distance if you hail one off the side of the road. So I told him that he is lucky he stopped then since he got a $45 ride to the airport.

It was weird seeing trams, and having to do right hand turns from left lanes. I think I would be paranoid something was going to smack into me driving around Melbourne. They had some horse and carriages around though so that was cool. Not much traffic, it reminded me more of Brisbane than Sydney. Also there were tons of little ally ways between buildings. In Sydney all the buildings are touching each other. Tons of cafes down these ally ways as well, it was interesting to see the difference in the set up compared to Sydney. The airport is in the middle of nowhere though, and the drive from the airport to the city wasn't eventful so I didn't get the big 'Welcome to Melbourne' excitement that I thought I would get.

I didn't have too much time down there so I took only a few pics. Brought a new wallet and watch, and went to a new store called Twisted Toys and got this cool boustier bag which looks pretty funky. Got a few postcards as well to put up at my desk at work.

Melbourne is a nice city...I guess you just need to know some of the rules before going there like the taxi rank rule, lol, so you don't go mad. I'll upload some pics for you to check out as well. I want to go down there for a week...cruise down there and have my car at least, lol.