Oct/091
Landed in Melbourne
Downtown Melbourne
So this is the first post of hopefully many about my trip to Australia for the 2009 World Solar Challenge. I landed in Melbourne on Sunday and promptly fell asleep immediately after arriving at the hostel that the team is staying at.
My flights were relatively non-eventful, I ended up sleeping for a good portion of the roughly 24 hours I spent in the air. I flew from Boston->San Francisco->Auckland->Melbourne. Air New Zealand had an awesome in-flight entertainment system and I got to watch a lot of movies, most of which I had to rewind often due to me falling asleep.
The last two days we’ve been exploring the city and enjoying the interesting food options – including an all-you-can eat dumpling restaurant, which was amazing on so many levels. I’m trying to avoid the McDonalds and the Hungry Jack’s (aka, Burger King), despite their temptations of free WiFi, to sample some more interesting fare.
We also went to the large public market in Melbourne and bought some high-quality food products, which we enjoyed eating on the waterfront.