Train Day..... 🚆

Up before the larks this morning (do they have larks in Australia 🇦🇺) anyway it was early 05:00 am, to get our train 🚅 to Melbourne. By 07:15, our bags 🎒 are checked in with no weight issues - thankfully 😅 and we are sat in our luxurious 1st class carriage; 1st class means comfier seats and extra legroom 🦵 🦵. Ist class does NOT mean available Wi-Fi, electrical charging points, and / or complimentary refreshments or alcoholic or even nonalcoholic drinks. Anyway, it's not as if we are here all day, only for 10 of the 24 hours a day has 🤣. To be fair to NSW TrainLink, the timetable said departs at 07:40, and that is the time we left 🚆
As the day and our journey continued, it quickly became apparent that today is a good day to travel with only the rare glimpse of blue skies through the low clouds ☁️ that kept the morning damp. The day did brighten up when, after 2 hours of staring 👀 👀 out of the train window, we spotted our first wild kangaroos 🦘🦘🦘 jumping through the countryside.
Stopping at Goulburn station, there were dozens of white cockatoos.
The day brightened up shortly before 12 midday, not because the train staff started taking orders for the hot lunches available, but the sun also came out 🌞
Around about a dozen or so kangaroos later and some 60 minutes after first seeing the Melbourne skyline, we finally arrived at Melbournes Southern Cross Station and our destination at 19:00 some 30 minutes later with no delay - repay available 😭😂 But hey during our stoppage we got to see a dozen or so kangaroos 🦘🦘🦘🦘Read more