Melbourne Wednesday

FINALLY, the day of the talks arrived. Chuck has been obsessing about them because he has never used PowerPoint before and had visions of everything going wrong. I waited with him until Moshi cam to pick him up. Waved goodbye and wished him luck. I went off to see some more of the city. Some interesting things that I observed:

Street signs pointing to public restrooms. This is something I can really appreciate.



A “hook sign”. This is a special traffic sign for Melbourne because of the trams. To turn right, you must pull all the way to the left, wait until the light turns yellow and then make your turn.




You can learn to be a professional level coffee maker. At Gloria Jean’s they have their certificates on the wall – just like the doctor’s office.



I stopped and had a bowl of soup for lunch. Moshi called to give directions about where to meet them. The first talk had gone very well and now we were all off to the second talk which was at Moshi’s campus, out in the suburbs.

We drove by Moshi’s house. Stopped to have a beer at his community center, which had slot machines, a bar, and all kinds of other activities. He says that when a new community is built, they always have schools and these centers. They think of it as their local pub. Then we drove to a reservoir. They don’t get the drinking water from rivers, but from these large manmade lakes.



As you can see, they have had a dry spell and the water level is quite low.

The second talk went well and an enormous weight has been lifted from Chuck’s shoulders.

We went Fawkners, near the hotel for dinner. For starters we shared a bruschetta with goat cheese and dried tomatoes, baby squid on a greek salad and twice baked crab puff. Each was about 2 bites. Then, we both had coq au vin pie.




For dessert we shared a blood orange tart and apple rhubarb crumble.