{"id":851,"date":"2013-05-25T09:55:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T08:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/?p=851"},"modified":"2013-05-29T03:26:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T02:26:06","slug":"melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/2013\/05\/25\/melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reasons I went to Melbourne and did not continue from Adelaide to Sydney:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>There is only 1 train per week from Perth to Sydney and it was full between Adelaide and Sydney on the day I was taking it. This meant that I needed to get off in Adelaide, which I did, but I couldn&#8217;t continue on the same train for another week. This meant finding another form of transport and the only other alternative from Adelaide to Sydney was a bus. This would take 24h however, which was far too long.<\/li>\n<li>Something I did find out about in Adelaide was a car share from Adelaide to Sydney. On the last night in Adelaide, a girl asked me if I wanted to go to Sydney tomorrow. The answer would have been yes, had I not already booked a bus to Melbourne.<\/li>\n<li>The trains to Melbourne left from Adelaide on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. As I go in to Adelaide on Tuesday, the options were to either get the train the next day (which I wasn&#8217;t going to do) or to wait until Friday (which was far too long). Therefore, the best option was to fill the gap with a bus. This I did and 12 hours later I was in Melbourne.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I arrived in Melbourne fairly late and proceeded to the hostel that someone on the Indian Pacific railway had recommended. His recommendation for Adelaide had not been bad, so I decided to go with his choice for Melbourne too, as it was very close to the bus station. It wasn&#8217;t hard to find and not long after I was sat in a restaurant, having got my accommodation sorted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whilst in Melbourne I spent 2 days exploring the city. Day 1 was spent riding the Free City Circle tram route, which took you on a loop around the city. Once I knew where I was going, I got off and wandered roughly in the direction of the Australian Centre for Moving Image, where I spent most of the afternoon. Day 2 was spent organising transport for the next step to Canberra and exploring Brunswick and Fitzroy, the two &#8216;bohemian&#8217; areas of the city. This I enjoyed, eating vegan food for lunch AND dinner and being back at the hostel in time for a decent night&#8217;s sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reasons I went to Melbourne and did not continue from Adelaide to Sydney: There is only 1 train per week from Perth to Sydney and it was full between Adelaide and Sydney on the day I was taking it. This meant that I needed to get off in Adelaide, which I did, but I couldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world-part-1"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomjay.co.uk\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}