Old Melbourne Gaol

Up early and caught the 7:45 train into Melbourne to go visit the Old Melbourne Gaol.
Train service was fantastic and super fast arriving in Spencer St train station. Just a short stroll into Federation square where we stopped off to see the seven metres in diameter moon featuring detailed NASA imagery of the lunar surface hanging on display. Interesting but not much information with it.
Walked another km down the road until we came to the Old Melbourne Gaol where we spent the next few hours wandering through the cells and city watch house partly guided and partly self guided using an app.
Lots of info on Ned Kelly's last days. Very interesting.
Was disappointed in Melbourne itself. So much of Southbank was closed. Businesses had just shut up shop and looked like had walked away.
Grand prix on this weekend, not advertised any where. A couple of F1 stalls on Southbank and so we looked it up and found out on Sunday.
So much graffiti all over Melbourne, seemed dirty, Graffiti City - was not an inviting city.Read more