Melbourne impressions: clean, broad streets, trams everywhere, huge choice of eating places. Downtown is grid system, with free tram touring the perimeter and several other tram services around the downtown area. Everyone looks so young, I’m the oldest person I’ve seen since we’ve been here.

Federation Square is the centre of the action, so Sunday afternoon we walked down there. We found Melbourne’s diversity being celebrated. There was a craft fair, with stalls representing a huge number of ethnicities. There was a performance stage, with big video screen, where an Indian dance troupe were performing energetically to some loud Indian disco music. There were about six girls and four blokes dancing. It was the sort of dancing that breaks out in a Bollywood movie when you were hoping for the sex scene. After the Indians had finished their act, a Mexican mariachi band took their place. A cue to leave if there ever was one.

There is a sign up saying that in Melbourne there are 230+ languages spoken [editorial note: the UN recognises 195 countries in total] and 130+ faiths, but only one community - Victoria.

Had a stroll down to the Yarra river for a while, and afterwards hopped a tram back to the hotel, but it was so hot we got off and walked.