On the 2nd January at 3am we all left Sidney for a 5 day family trip (16 people altogether) to Melbourne - 12 hours by car. My bottom started complaining after the first 4 hours. It has been a loooooong ride.
I tried to sleep; I woke up right in time for the dawn. And then fell asleep again. I must say that an Australian dawn leaves you speechless.
Panoramas from Sidney to Melbourne did not change much. We went from urban areas (Sidney) to brown, arid land and back to urban areas (when we eventually arrived in Melbourne). Nothing but the long road in front of us and deserted fields around us. Here and there you could see cows black as pitch put to pasture. The same was for sheep and horses. The land once covered with trees, is now flat and solitary. It seemed to me that the hills had been “shaved”: rounded shapes against the blue sky. During the trip I spotted a board on the side of the road that was saying “Land on sale”. As far as I could see nothing was delineating its boundaries. I wondered how big that piece of land was.
A few times I saw a graveyard right in the middle of nowhere. No villages around, any churches, not a single sign of human activity. But there it was, with its withered flowers, standing at the sun.
We had busy days while in the state of Victoria. We went gold hunting!! It was great! That was the funniest day of the whole trip! We even found some gold! I had lot of fun with my cousins’ kids (from 3 to 12 years old). I played a lot with them: running around, shouting, laughing, getting dirty... it was making me feel so free.
Morlington and Philip Island were our next stops. More sea and more sun!
Melbourne is a modern and growing city. I had the feeling that architects did have fun in shaping its buildings.
I tried to sleep; I woke up right in time for the dawn. And then fell asleep again. I must say that an Australian dawn leaves you speechless.
Panoramas from Sidney to Melbourne did not change much. We went from urban areas (Sidney) to brown, arid land and back to urban areas (when we eventually arrived in Melbourne). Nothing but the long road in front of us and deserted fields around us. Here and there you could see cows black as pitch put to pasture. The same was for sheep and horses. The land once covered with trees, is now flat and solitary. It seemed to me that the hills had been “shaved”: rounded shapes against the blue sky. During the trip I spotted a board on the side of the road that was saying “Land on sale”. As far as I could see nothing was delineating its boundaries. I wondered how big that piece of land was.
A few times I saw a graveyard right in the middle of nowhere. No villages around, any churches, not a single sign of human activity. But there it was, with its withered flowers, standing at the sun.
We had busy days while in the state of Victoria. We went gold hunting!! It was great! That was the funniest day of the whole trip! We even found some gold! I had lot of fun with my cousins’ kids (from 3 to 12 years old). I played a lot with them: running around, shouting, laughing, getting dirty... it was making me feel so free.
Morlington and Philip Island were our next stops. More sea and more sun!
Melbourne is a modern and growing city. I had the feeling that architects did have fun in shaping its buildings.
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