Melbourne Friday 7th February

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A relaxed start to the day before 1130 departure.

The Shotover River
Arrowtown, an old gold mining town now existing entirely on tourism as far as I could see.
It grew during the 19th century gold rush.
The gold rush attracted both Europeans and impoverished Chinese.
The Chinese were unwelcome and lived in poor settlements in homes such as these.
The Chinese homes have been restored.
It must have been a very hard life.
Our good natured tour group,
Our good natures were sorely tested at Queenstown Airport. Check in by kiosk required a nonexistent tour guide code to allow us to check in.

We stood around for an hour with our tour guide trying to get help from Virgin staff. Some of them simply disappeared. One was finally persuaded to process all 42 of us singly by overruling the computer system each time.

First view of Melbourne’s South Bank of the Yarra River from our hotel.
Part of our massive suite.
Pizza and wine in our room to finish the day.

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