After some hassles with a stupid bus that doesn’t run on public holidays (even though it goes to tourist attractions that are open), I spent my last day in Victoria down at Werribee, home of the open range zoo and a cool old mansion set in massive parklands. The zoo was awesome, although our safari bus ride was slightly spoiled by selfish, er, international tourists who neither controlled their small children nor followed the zookeeper’s instructions.

Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, and a wonderful Boxing Day to anyone I haven’t contacted recently. Christmas Day was for me a walk through Melbourne’s (very nice) Royal Botanic Gardens, which was awesome in all aspects … except for the fact that I could have sworn those clouds and that wind was the kind of thing that only happened in winter.