Wednesday Aug. 14...Visiting
Wednesday was cloudy by the time I left the house at about 11 am (I am getting really lazy .taking my time getting the day started) When I arrived at Flinders Station, the sun was shining. I went around the back down by the river to get the information for an Earthcache about the Yarra River. Then made my way up to the GPO to meet a friend from high school for coffee at Curt’s Cocao site.
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Kathleen went to Tupper with me and is a professor/researcher at the University of Melbourne. For all my high school friends reading this….she is well and happy and heading off to speak at a conference in Copenhagen for a week and then holidaying in Italy for 5 weeks…..and she says hi to everyone.
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| Chinatown |
After our coffee I chatted with Curt for awhile and then made my way out to find another cache….I found one in Chinatown and then bought a bottle of wine to take to my next stop.
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A very busy. day
Thursday Aug. 15.….Docklands
Curt was working again today so I went into town about 12:30 (boy I’m getting slow!) I decided I was going to take the free Tourist Bus ride around Melbourne and get off in Docklands. I took this tour bus 2 years ago with Carol….it stops at 13 different tourist spots where you can get off or on….it runs a recorded commentary and a friendly driver that adds little bits and pieces of history and other info…..best of all it is FREE!
I got out at stop 10, at Docklands….5 caches I could choose from…..that is until I read about them….4 of them I needed to pack a kayak, you can only reach them from the water and one is even under the dock! One I could get but there was about a dozen fisher people surrounding the cache area. So off I went in search of a cache, my GPS not liking the signals bouncing off of all of the buildings. I finally found one and then I made my way to the Immigration Museum but by that time it was 4:30 and it closed at 5 so, another day.
I wandered about for another while and then made my way back “home”
Friday Aug. 16.….Monet’s Giverny Garden revisited
Today Curt and I decided to go to the Monet exhibit at the National Gallery Victoria http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/ . So I got up early and was downtown by 10:30.
Carol and I didn’t go to this gallery when we were here last time…..it is beautiful….a waterfall when you first come in, a large meeting room with a stained glass ceiling, a sculpture garden in the back….
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| NGV |
The exhibit was wonderful http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/exhibitions/monets-garden….most of the work was painted in his garden in Giverny France, where Sheryl, Paul and I visited last summer. I truly appreciated the art and the artist as I toured and kept thinking, I was there. Curt and I arrived at about 11 and didn’t leave til after 2. I couldn’t take pictures in the display but check back to my last year’s blog of pictures of the real garden!
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| Return to Giverny |
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| Musical waterlies--china bowls floating in the moving pond Beautiful music |
We were hungry when we left so we made our way to a Japanese restaurant near Southern Cross railway station…..had a great lunch there then went up to find a cache at the station that I missed yesterday….an easy find today!
Then we continued our walk down Collins Street and ended up at the State Library of Victoria….a building I didn’t go into the last time I was here. Another beautiful Melbourne building refurbished and well used.
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| Very busy very quiet |
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| A Chess Room |
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| Favourite Reading Room |
At 6 it was dark and we went across the street to the Melbourne Central Station for me to make my way back home.
As I sit here the wind is blowing very hard and the rain is falling after a beautiful warm sunny day! I‘m hoping tomorrow and Sunday are nice!
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