Melbourne City Tour

My family used to live right outside of Melbourne for two years.  I had heard a lot about the city, and they even told me their old address so that I could potentially go see it if I got the chance.  Walking around the city, it was extremely different to what I had thought it would look like.  When I got back and talked to my mom, she made a very good comparison.  She told me that Melbourne was more like Boston, while Sydney was more like New York City.  After thinking about it, I agree with her completely. I enjoyed the tour and seeing a lot of the artsy culture that the city had to offer. Also, I love coffee. I can’t get enough of it.  Because of this, I was extremely excited to visit the city since we had learned so much about how Melbourne has some of the best coffee that can be found in Australia.  On our tour, I learned a lot.  There were a lot of small facts that she told us that made the experience all the better.  Many of them had to do with the street art that was shown in the alley ways that we visited.  One thing that I learned was that in the alley named after AC/DC, the city actually commissioned the making of the sculpture in the wall.  This was an amazing piece of art and I thought it was extremely cool that the city commissioned its building.

Another thing I learned was about the restaurants located in the alleys.  I learned that the most expensive restaurant cost about $320,000 and is maybe one of the smallest cooking spaces I have ever seen.  It was approximately 6 feet deep and only about 3 feet wide, and this restaurant made what are called jaffles.  I had never heard of a jaffle before this trip, but it is essentially two pieces of bread with different items in the middle.  For example, one of the items on the menu was a bacon, egg and cheese jaffle.  So once everything is constructed, the whole sandwich is toasted in a specific sandwich maker.  I thought it was extremely interesting that such a simple shop, with such a simple menu, was the most expensive piece of land for any restaurant in the city.

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