Bye-bye favourite city (so far)

Oh, I'm really kind of sad to be leaving Melbourne tomorrow morning... But Sydney's calling. I'm just a bit worried because most of the people I've talked to like either one or the other. Rarely both. But there were some exceptions, and I hope to be another one of them.

The last couple of days, I went to see the musical Billy Elliot (with Anne, whom I'd met on the Great Ocean Road trip), explored the South Bank, went round on the free tourist bus and tram (in other cities you'd have to pay a lot of money for that), walked the Italian quarter around Lygon Street (the place to go for pasta, pizza and ice cream), explored the Botanic Gardens (again, free - why is this possible in Australia and not in Germany??) and watched the Chinese New Year parade (very colourful and loud).