• Day 5-6-7-8

    Today's destination was Melbourne. The path took me four hours, but this time, no atypic monuments to visit, unlike in Canberra, where I encountered an indigenous person in the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. There were still some exciting  sites to visit and I didn't want to travel again to another city just after that (yes, Australia's a huge countryyes.)

    I stayed three days. Howeverw it wasn't too much to visit everything (or almost everything). The most interesting places in Melbourne were :

    - Flinders Street railway station, my starting point.

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    - The Shrine of Remembrance, built as a memorial to the men and women of Victoria who served in World War I, and  now a memorial to all Australians who have served in war.

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    - Federation Square, a mixed-use development in the inner city, which really regroups lots of things, like cinemas, a museum, exposition spaces, auditoriums, restaurants, shops, a giant screen... I didn't see anything but it took me a while anyway.

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    - The Royal Exhibition Building, one of the last remaining major 19th-century exhibition buildings in the world.

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    - State Library of Victoria, which holds over 2 million books and 16,000 serials, including the diaries of the cities founders, John Batman (yes, Batman) and John Pascoe Fawkner, and the folios of Captain James Cook.

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