Melbourne

Our last international stop was Melbourne.  It's a really cool city that feels like a distinctive place unlike Sydney.  There are really good restaurants and cafes so we ate a lot and drank a coffee from a different place every day.  It was also fall (southern hemisphere) and Melbourne is far enough south to actually get seasons so we finally had to break out sneakers and slightly warmer clothes again.  We didn't plan it this way necessarily, but we started our trip the furthest north we've ever been in Iceland and ended it the furthest south we've ever been in Victoria, Australia.

Melbourne has all these small alleyways (they call laneways) that sometimes seem really sketchy but often have cool street art and lead towards a bar or restaurant.  Down the alley in the second picture past all the trash cans was a bar in an old science laboratory.  It's a fun city to just wander around.

East Melbourne is a cool neighborhood to walk around in that has tons of decorative cast iron.  Supposedly it has the most of any city in the world.

Bells by the river that are going off at different times during the day.  This was right after the footy game we went to so they were playing the Melbourne Demons song which as I mentioned before sounds like "You're a Grand Old Flag."

 We happened to be in town during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival which is the third largest in the world and has almost 500 shows.  Every night we would just pick a show to see and most of them were phenomenal.

This show was one of our favorites.  A one man show comedy noir that also turned out to have a lot of impressive magic in it too.  It was awesome.  We also really enjoyed Gillian Cosgriff who did some great stand up and sang some really funny songs.

Alas, here we are at the Melbourne airport at the end of our international journey.  I feel like we look a little different from the picture of us at Logan seven and a half months earlier.  More tan anyway.  Follow us as we kick off the American road trip soon!