Melbourne

Done. Last night was okay. Probably because today is the farewell. Farewell to Phillip Island and farewell to our camper. Just 2 more hours and we will be in Melbourne.

It could be faster to get there, but then we have to drive on toll roads and we don't want to. It's a bit complicated here because it's only electronically recorded and Apollo doesn't feel responsible for it. So you have to take care of paying the toll yourself.

But it's not a problem, we also arrived at Apollo without paying tolls.

Everything went smoothly.

Do you know the feeling of coming into a hotel room, dropping the bags and falling backwards onto the bed? Awesome. And in this beautiful moment that never wants to end, my husband wakes up and says, "Where is my camera?"

Panic takes over his face and the awesome moment is gone. My first thought is, "Thank goodness I didn't forget it." But then the frantic search for the phone numbers of Apollo and Uber (the alternative taxi, just to remind you) begins. Thinking back to where it could be, we come to the conclusion that the camera must be in the Uber car. And we're right. George, our nice Uber-Aussie-Greek driver, brought it back to us in the evening. Thanks again for that. By the way, Uber-George is a big fan of FC Bayern Munich and loves the Bundesliga.

Melbourne has a bit of the charm of New York. There are many skyscrapers in the city and you constantly have to look up.

A beautiful, colorful and lively city. Many Asian restaurants, it was probably not a coincidence that we were in Chinatown?

Anyway, we were in a Vietnamese noodle shop - it was really delicious. However, I didn't eat any soup. It reminded me too much of my soup experience in Thailand.

There, I got a terrine with a soup inside that looked like milky dishwater with garnish and tasted sour. Yuck.

But Carsten says his soup was great.

And I preferred to have a noodle salad with spring rolls and fried chicken strips (well, they were more like half chicken breast fillets). Delicious.

Melbourne, the capital of the present state of Victoria, with almost 5 million inhabitants.

The area was first settled by Europeans in 1835 after buying it from the Aboriginal people.

Unlike other settlements, Melbourne was never a penal colony, but has always been a residential settlement.

The name Melbourne was given in 1837 in honor of the then Prime Minister William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne.

The side streets are home to clubs, discos and pubs. On our night stroll, in search of a pub, we found Penny (not the German supermarket chain). The beer was a bit too bitter for my taste, but it still made us have a good time.