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Goodbye Sydney, Hello Melbourne
So, after almost 1 memorable and wonderful week, we finally bade farewell to the beautiful Sydney, checked out of our dear hotel which we have grown to love so much, and boarded the flight to Melbourne. That was the second leg of our maiden Australia trip, and promised to be a very different experience altogether. Something that we could not wait to embark on, especially given the fact that we had some relatives in that city as well.
The short flight was smooth and unremarkable, and in less than 2 hours, we set foot on Melbourne airport. Since we would be traveling more widely there, it made sense to rent a car. However, that was when the problem started. It took us a while to contact the car rental company and catch the shuttle bus that brought us to the rental bay. Then we found out that the car model we wanted to rent was not available, and they gave us another model that was supposedly equivalent, just that it was not equivalent at all. We would be having quite a memorable time with that car, which I will write about in more details later. For the time being, everything was okay, just that the car booth was quite narrow even though it was a SUV, so our poor kids had to share leg rooms with 2 pieces of hand luggage…