Walking around the city of Melbourne

Although we were in Melbourne only for 3 days, we have managed to look around fair bit of what the city offers.

Firstly, wherever I go, I love to go to a local museum, so we went down to Melbourne Museum. The Museum in Perth is free to enter (although they ask for some donation), so we were bit hesitant to pay $10 to get in, and I must admit that I have been to other museums which got more to see than the Melbourne Museum offers and was cheaper to get in. Having said that, it is still a good place to visit, if you are museum lovers.

メルボルンの市内には、市電が走っているので、どこに行くにも市電に乗れば簡単です（一日券がおすすめ）。色々と市内を見て回りましたが、数カ所紹介します。

まず、メルボルン博物館ですが、恐竜関係は、面白いと思いましたが、それ以外は、他の博物館とそれほど変わりは無いと思います。僕は、博物館が好きですが、そうで無い人には、入場料の１０ドルは、高いかもしれません。

After the Museum, we went to Melbourne Aquarium, but personally, I think the entry fee was overpriced. Don't get me wrong, it is still a good place to go, and they have some interesting fish to see like murray cod, barramundi and giant grouper, however, the place is quite small compared to other aquariums I have been to, and for what they are, $35 entry fee is asking too much. We manged to get some discount to enter the aquarium with a coupon that we got when we bought tickets for the Sky Bus (the airport shuttle bus).

博物館の後に、水族館に行きましたが、ここの入場料は、正直言って高すぎです（３５ドル）。 何週類かのオーストラリアの固有種以外は、ペンギンや小型のサメなどの、ベタな魚ですし、水族館自体もちいさいです。

In terms looking around shops, we felt shops on the streets in Fitzroy area were much more unique and artistic than those we see in Perth especially compared to those boring franchised shops found in every suburban shopping center. Unfortunately many of them were closed during Easter holiday, so we just saw things through windows.

ショッピングに興味がある人には、メルボルンは、面白い場所だと思います。特にFitzroyというエリアには、変わった店が幾つもありました。ちなみに、オーストラリアは、物価が高いので、売っている物は、安くはありません。服などは、日本の方が安いと思います。











On the streets of Melbourne, we came across with a number of cafes and coffee shops in arcades and on narrow lanes and side streets, and our absolute favourite was a patisseries in the heart of Melbourne (I think it was on Lt Collins Street). Although things were bit pricy, they have very nice cakes and sandwiches. They were so great, we went there twice while we were in Melbourne.

メルボルンには、レストランやカフェが沢山ありますが、今回の旅行で当たりだったのは、Lt Collins Street にある、写真のケーキ屋さんです。ケーキの他にパンやサンドイッチなどもありました。値段はどれも高かったですが、美味しかったです。

If you are fellow fly fishers, then you can do all shopping you need at Complete Angler / Fly fisher on Flinders Lane. It was a very neat shop and guys at the shop were pleasant (which was generally the case in the other shops in Melbourne)

それから、メルボルンには、綺麗なフライフィッシングのお店もあります。店員もフレンドリーで良い感じのお店でした。ただ、釣具の値段は高いし、フックやタイイングのマテリアルの種類も日本の店と比べると少ないので、オーストラリアへ釣り旅行に来る場合は、日本で全て道具をそろえた方が良いです。