Day 3 - Eduacshun........

Jumped on the tourist bus mid morning and dropped of at the Victoria Market - the biggest in Melbourne. It is a big mixture of classic market clothing stalls, tat, tourist stalls (some of it OK-ish) and fresh produce - lots of it. Came cross a very impressive large organic veg area with lots of great stuff for sale. It had some great varieties too, including local tasty types and some of the heirloom varieties I grew. Then we walked into one of the older brick markets into the deli selection. A great looking place preserving the original signs and architecture.

After a brunch stop we gently walked over the the National Museum of Victoria; a very contemporary building. Housing the IMAX cinema as well. The museum was really excellent with smallish exhibitions but extremely well laid out often with live exhibits. The forest gallery for example was a large plot of real forest in a aviary structure that sticks up and is visible all over the city. Full of huge tree ferns, Gum trees and Acacias. The birds were very pretty. Izzy and I were particularly fascinated by the bower birds, who's males make elaborate nests on the ground to attract females. They collect brightly coloured articles to adorn the nests and his were full of acacia flowers and blue bottle tops. Izzy offered him my bottle top and he took it straight away.

Also very good galleries on dinosaurs, sea creatures and creepy crawlies......so now we know what the deadly spiders look like. We also checked out the Pompei exhibition....so, so.....

We rounded the day off with a trip to the IMAX cinema. A very good 3D film on reefs around Indonesia and Australia.

We walked back towards the apartment and had dinner at a Balkan Steak House that had a super Tuesday offer. I had the biggest T bone I have ever seen, Isabelle had a very chunky Fillet and Rosie a huge fillet kebab Balkan style (with Pitta, salad and mint yoghurt). Mmmm