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St Kilda 圣基尔达

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St Kilda is about an hour walk from the city of Melbourne. As I was staying a distance away from the the city, I have to take about an hour walk to the city and another hour walk to the beach in St Kilda. I never take any bus or train when I was in Melbourne. I only once took the free city bus to travel around the city (I took 3 rounds). Most of my travel are on foot and with a map. 

This is the place for sun, wind and sand.

While I walking towards St Kilda, I found that there was no many vehicles on the road. Later I realised it was the day of the Pride Parade and some of the roads were closed. I joined in the crowd to watch the parade and took some pictures.

The parade ended with music, dance and performance in the park near to the beach.

Melbourne 墨尔本

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While I was resting on the bench along the Yarra River in a lazy afternoon, this Greece man from Athens approached me. He said he was doing a survey and asked whether I could answer some questions. I agreed to his request.

He started by talking about Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad and I told him I have read that book. After talking for a while, I realized that he was trying to persuade me to get into some sort of pyramids investment. I have read about this type of investment in Singapore before. It goes something like this – when a person invested $1,000 and he will get 5% interest provided that he introduces another 10 people to invest $1,000 each. These 10 people will have to further each get another 10 people to invest.

I told this Greece man that this type of investment is illegal in Singapore. He asked for my contact number in Singapore and said he will get someone from Network 21 will contact me when I am back in Singapore. I did a search in the Internet and found that there is in fact such an institution known as Network 21 that trains people to be their own boss. But I am not interested in this.

I continued with my sightseeing in this second largest city in Australia. I think I need at least 2 days to tour the whole city. If I am to visit the museums, art galleries and other tourist attractions, I will need another 2 more days.

I went to the Queen Victoria Market and found that it is very interested. I bought 5 tomatoes for 50 cents and 3 big bananas for $1.45. I ate them for lunch. This market is one of the places you will have to visit if you are coming to Melbourne.