Three days in Melbourne

We have spent the last three days in Melbourne and it has been difficult to blog as the hotel charges exorbitant amounts for Internet connection. We bought two hours and used them and then bought another two hours of which we used about twenty minutes. When's slogged on again it told us we had used all of our time cue the master negotiator to take it up, and after a lengthy argument we had one hour forty minutes reinstated.
Our first day in Melbourne was spent walking to the Victoria Market and around there, this is a really interesting place and we spent a good couple of hours there. Before that though we had to go and buy another camera as our big one had died on us and needs to be returned home. This was not something we wanted to purchase but rather something we felt we had to do. After the market, where we both bought hats we had lunch in Flagstaff gardens which was great before catching the tram to Federation Square where we went to to the tourist information office. After that we went to Young and Jacksons pub on Flinders Street for a quiet pint before walking home again. All in all we walked about five miles.
day two was Australia Day and we walked the lanes of Melbourne which were very interesting architecturally. We then walked to the botanic gardens which we really enjoyed and we had lunch there, after that we walked to Government house, which had been opened to the public for the day but when we saw the queue to get in we declined the hour wait, and instead watched a fly past and aerobatic display and looked at the vintage car parade. this was like the story of our lives told in cars, Cortinas ,Anglias, Singer Gazelles, VW's etc.
We returned to the pub for a drink and then walked back up the lanes to our hotel. Then just to prove how mad we are we walked from the hotel to Mary Tonkin's exhibition where we had a couple of glasses of wine and looked at her wonderful picture. After the walk back to Lygon Street we treated ourselves to an Italian meal which was really good. Back to the hotel we reckoned we had walked about eight miles during the day and both of us felt a little weary.
Today we have spent with our nephew and nieces at Di's house for a barbecue, where we had a really great afternoon, very relaxing, with some good food and some good company. All in all a great three days .