pauligoesaustralia: September 2013

On saturday the big grey bird brought us from Brisbane, Queensland to Melbourne, Victoria. The flight was only one and a half hours. We arrived at midnight and went directly to bed when we arrived at our hostel.
The first thing we saw were the "Queen Victoria Markets". It's a big market with clothes, food and souvenirs.
Melbourne is not that big and so we walked everywhere.
The Federation Square is a nice place with interesting buildings. Right next to it is the St. Paul's Cathedral.
Next to the Yarra River is the art district of Melbourne with the Melbourne Ballett, different theatres and museums.
It's also very nice to have a walk beside the river. Melbourne has many trams to go around the city. One of them is free and makes one circle around the city square. We did this tour with the tram on our last day in Melbourne. There was one small street called Degraves Street where we had dinner in one of the small restaurants.
There are also some nice malls and shopping streets haha.
We also walked through China Town which is actually only one street. But I ate the cheapest sushi of my life- it was only 2$ per sushi roll!
At tuesday evening our time in Melbourne was already over and we went back to my australian home.

I don’t know why but I’m actually a bit scared of rollercoaster rides but yesterday I went to Dream World, which is a theme park at the Gold Coast, and went for a ride with the scariest rollercoaster I’ve ever seen. It took us nearly 2 hours to go there but everybody was excited when we finally arrived. The first attraction was like a round carousel. We sat in a circle and the arm of it swung from one side to the other till it was upright. After that we went to a rollercoaster which looked like a normal one but while we were standing in the queue we realized that it’s one with two looping.
I’m glad I survived it but there were attractions which were much scarier than that looping rollercoaster. The next carousel had two queues; one for an easy ride without going upside down and one where the ride was upside down and with full speed. I wanted to do the easy one, but my nice friends forced me to go with them to the queue for the hard one.
Now I can say I went for a ride with the most confusing carousel in my life! :D
After a quick lunch we went to the next attraction which was the lodge ride which is a ride in water and a jump into water. And yes we were really, really wet after that!
The next rollercoaster was no normal one, because the seats were in form of a motorbike and so it felt like we were driving a motorbike. It was actually not really funny, because there was no looping, haha. The next rollercoaster looked scary and the name “Tower of Terror” sounds also scary. But yes, I did it! It has this scary name, because you go with 131 km/h backwards and then vertical up that you're facing the ground. I had the chance to sit in the first row and being more scared than I actually was because nothing than air was in front of me when we went down again. The whole ride was only 16 seconds long.
Another attraction we went to was the "Zombie House”. We walked in a row through the house and at nearly every wall was an actor who scared us. It was sometimes pretty funny because they were not able to scare us but one man was jumping in front of me and I had to scream (I nearly screamed the whole day haha).
The last rollercoaster we had a ride with was called “The Heart” because of its shape.
The wagon drove really slowly till we were upside down. Then it stopped for nearly 5 seconds (my heart stopped as well) before it went backwards down then up again then forwards down then up again then it stopped another time upright before it went down and the ride finished. This was the only rollercoaster I would never do again! But I’m really proud of myself that I was brave enough to do the other ones and I would also do them again!