We’ve walked to every single airport

I really wanted to sleep in since it was our last day of ‘vacation’ but Lauren was keen on getting up early to get our last minute sightseeing in before we caught our plane back to Sydney. Not that I didn’t want to sightsee, I just didn’t want to get up early. First on our list was something that I had seen on the map and said we had to go to – Batman Park. We took the tram into the city and arrived at a park much smaller than we expected but nonetheless it was still Batman park!

The birds posing like Batman! 

Plus it was right next to the Harbour which was our second stop. We were curious to see how it compared to Sydney’s Harbour and we agreed that they are completely different. We backtracked to see this really cool bridge that Lauren had spotted in a magazine called Webb Bridge. Melbourne has very interested sculptures and artsy things; this just adds to the list.

Melbourne really does have cool art structures throughout the whole city.

The free City Circle tram took us further into the city so we could explore this camera museum that I had noticed in a brochure. It was actually a very small museum in the upper back corner of this massive camera store. There were pretty cool old fashion cameras though! We kept checking things off our list as we ventured off to find Goldsbrough Lane. We were worried at first that we wouldn’t find it, but we looped around the corner and walked up the parallel street to finally come across it!

With that out of the way we just had one more stop, the NGV, National Gallery of Victoria. Some of our friends had told us about this reflection pool that had floating bowls in water that clanked together to make musical notes. It was a really cool sight to see but unfortunately not as peaceful as we imagined since its located right in the foyer as you enter the museum.

This meant we had successfully seen all the sights we had planned out and much more along the way. We headed back to Sean’s to grab our bags and have lunch before we headed out to the airport. We were planning on doing our infamous walk to the airport scheme once again. I mean, who wants to pay $17 for a 10 minute bus ride to the airport? Because we had gotten our sight-seeing done early we were actually able to get to the right tram in the city earlier and then start walking earlier. This walk was a much nicer one than the one in Hobart since all the roads had sidewalks and it was practically a straight shot! We even had a great view along the way.

With such an easy walk we were able to get to the airport before our check in time even opened up which was a nice change. This turned into an even longer wait since there was only one person checking in people and then the boarding time got pushed back as well. Tiger Airways is great though since they always manage to make up time in the air and we somehow landed five minutes before we were scheduled to. We had another couchsurfer host lined up for Sydney since we had moved out of our apartment and headed towards the Rocks to meet him. We triple checked the address to this place because we ended up standing outside the fanciest apartment complex either of us had seen. Our host, Par said he was out on his bike and would be there soon so we just crossed our fingers that we were in the right place. We imagined a pedaled bike, but Par actually rode up on a 400!cc motorcycle We got the introductions out of the way and after parking his bike he took us up to his amazing apartment! Literally we walked into his living room and saw the Opera House out his windows that made up the whole wall of the apartment. I think both of our jaws dropped at this point! We definitely felt like we were privileged and definitely didn’t deserve to be so lucky, but hey, we’ll sleep on his couches anytime!