Day 764 - Classical Mystery Tour

While our hosts went off to work this morning (oh shit, we're going to have to do that soon), the three of us blissfully slept in until around lunch time!!! After that we awoke to a friendly message, breakfast supplies, directions towards shops, and a communication tool we think is called a cell-phone!!

Most of the afternoon was spent doing mundane western things, like buying groceries and winter warms so we don't freeze to death in the southern hemisphere. It's pretty cool to be able to wander the streets, easily reading street names, talk to shop people and follow the full conversation. It's particularly nice to blend in - for the first time in years we don't feel like highly visible tourists even though we actually still are tourists here checking out the sights!

Come evening we caught the tram into town and met for a drink at a proper bar, with great live music, where we had a few drinks before making our way to the the Hamer Hall Arts Centre in central Melbourne.

On the way to the Arts Centre we admired the shining lights that bathe the Melbourne waterways, glorious churches, and a huge Ferris wheel in the distance.

Rory brought Adam back to student days in a hurry by popping wine bottles out of his backpack which we began to drink at pace before being told by police to put it away!!

The next few hours were spent singing along to The Beatles accompanied by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. It was just so spot-on that they almost had us fooled that we were watching The Beatles! Having the orchestra play along with them just heightened the experience - it was great that in such a stunning setting there was nothing wrong with singing along and jumping up in the aisles and having a dance!

At the end of the evening we wandered through town before jumping back on the tram to get back home, where the boys settled into some more drinks and a good chinwag.

Adlibing The Beatles.