No run today as I planned a long walk. Not sure that Adrian was aware it was SUCH a long walk but felt we needed to get out and about as much as possible. After leaving the apartment we walked down to the river and across Kings Bridge to south bank but stopping briefly at a restaurant near Crown plaza (and the Casino) for brekkie. A large veggie omelette for Mr James and Eggs Benedict on sourdough toast for me, topped off with a long black and a view of the river life doesn't get much better! After . fuelling up we continue our walk along the Yarra river to Queen Victoria Gardens and then turned left along St Kilda road hopping onto the Tan Track (a big like Rotten Row in Hyde Park, it's a compacted sand and grit path), which when dry is great but damp was not so easy for a wheelchair. We paused for bit to watch a group of cockatoos destroying the grass in a bid to wheedle out some grubs and worms.
We walked right down to the Shrine of Remembrance in glorious sunshine and stopped for quite a long visit. The new galleries there built a couple of years ago within the structure of the old building are really interesting and covers both great wars and the more modern conflicts and peacekeeping missions. The area was full of school parties and about half a dozen kids offered to push Adrian at various times, I'm sure he would have been glad of it later on in the day but we're determined to get fitter if it kills us!
Next we strolled through the botanic gardens, full of bright tropical flowers and vegetation, some with glorious fragrances, some not so much! Lots of free wheeling down steep paths and around the ornamental lake where tourists can be punted around the waterways on a gondola - a bit surreal but quite cool to pass the time of day. We stoped in the Terrace Cafe and had a bite of lunch , re-energise we stomped/rolled on another kilometre until we slowly mooched around the MCG. We glimpsed the hallowed turf but late in the day decided feet up back at the apartment was preferable to a grounds tour. Back along the river (after a hugely steep push up and over a bridge to Birrarung Marr Park and onwards to federation square. We stopped briefly at the tourist information office to buy tram tickers for the morning before sauntering slowly past St Patrick's cathedral and back to hotel (one of us managed to maintain the energy levels a little better than t'other - will leave you to guess which). We watched a couple of Movies then set out for dinner about 19:30, sadly a lot of places were either full or inaccessible so we ended up at project burger, a project by Neil Perry (Aussie Chef) to provide fast food the slow way - to be fair it was one of the best burgers I've ever tasted and the beer was good too. Was worn out by the time we got back but still managed not to sleep well, Adrian on the other hand......
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