Took a few days off and drove down to Seymour, where we stayed at the Big 4 and took the train into Melbourne to go and see the flower show. The train turned out to be a VLine bus as the train, which was coming in from Albury, was already full. And so was the bus as it turned out.
The bus was pleasant enough and took us all the way into the Southern Cross station, which has about 70 bus slots in the terminus under it. From here we strolled across the road to the tram stop, jumped on the first one and were there at Carlton Gardens in a few minutes.
The flower show itself was better than I had anticipated based on our experience from previous years. Somehow, the outside displays seemed more open and flowed better. The only downside was the continuing threat of rain which thankfully came just as we finished outside so we headed for the comfort of the Royal exhibition Building, as did ten-thousand others. The pavilion was full but not sardine-like and we wandered around looking at the beautiful, bizarre and plain bad displays until we had had our fill.
The return tram was at the stop in a flash, the train, yes a real train, left right on time at 3:30 and we had a pleasant run back through the country to Seymour, where our car was parked a few minutes walk from the station.
Travelling back to Canberra we stopped at The Dog for a sandwich and a cuppa, before making the
last dash for home. All in all not a bad way to spend a few days and to visit Melbourne, certainly way ahead of taking the van into one of the van parks in the metropolitan area.
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| Melbourne Tram |
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| Carlton Gardens, Melbourne Vic |
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| Carlton Gardens, Melbourne Vic |
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| Carlton Gardens, Melbourne Vic |
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| Carlton Gardens, Melbourne Vic |
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| Carlton Gardens, Melbourne Vic |
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| Carlton Gardens, Melbourne Vic |
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| Carlton Gardens, Melbourne Vic |
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| Dog-on-a-box. Gundagai NSW |
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