The Morning Before the Arvo After

This blog post is the prequel to my last blog post about my pilgrimage to the real life Ramsay Street. As with any prequel, it's nowhere near as exciting as the original but the morning just before I decided to hop on that tram to Vermont South, I feel really captures the perfect snippet of my daggy little adventures around Melbourne.

My original plan for that day was to go to the Melbourne Tram Museum. Trams are a pretty awesome mode of transport and I have an ever growing collection of tram magnets which used to live on my boiler back at home, before I packed everything in boxes to go to the storage of Dad for the year.

My current collection of tram magnets.
It may be a lot larger by the time I get back from my travels!

The Melbourne Tram Museum is only open on the second and forth Saturday of the month and I've been wanting to go to it ever since I found out about it. So I went off to the suburb of Hawthorn on Saturday morning to learn more about the trams of Melbourne. The museum has 20 vintage trams in a warehouse and regular guided tours led by enthusiastic volunteers. You're encouraged to hop from tram to tram and you can even ring the bells if you're able to find a driver's compartment that doesn't have small children already doing just that. 

I'd like to think this is the tram all the residents of Ramsay Street get on when they're going to the city.

After spending far to much time and money in their extensive gift shop, I finally left the Tram Museum in search of some lunch when I stumbled across this butchers shop. I may not have found any Cannings when I went to Frankston but at least I found some here!

Eventually I found a nice little cafe to satisfy my poor hungry belly and as I was eating lunch I was trying to decide what to do for the rest of the day...which is when I discovered that I was actually on a direct tram line that would take me all the way to Pin Oak Court!

You can read all about that part of my day here.

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