Next up, older buildings in the CBD.
I'm always fascinated with the different eras of buildings when they are mixed up throughout a city centre, particularly older cities that have had a recent building boom, as buildings that are hundreds of years apart can end up being right next to each other.

I had the Monday March 2nd to myself, and spent a few hours wandering around the inner heart of Melbourne City. Despite being in Melbourne every year for over a decade, staying on the outskirts of the CBD (Spencer St) almost every year, it has probably been at least 10 years since I wandered into the centre of the city where the mall is, which I thought was really strange. There isn't a lot of things in the city centre that I wanted to do or see, but there are some things in there that I now find odd that I haven't been checking out each year (mostly because I am usually only able to be there for just one or two nights for the Toyfair and meeting up with friends, which doesn't leave me any time to do anything else).

Funny thing is, I walk past this building (opposite the Southern Cross train station), several times every year, and yet I never noticed that it was Batman's lair... complete with the Bat-Signal on the roof.


A little gothic church among the tall buildings.


The old and the new...











Town Hall.


St Pauls Cathedral.


Flinders St Train Station.


A small laneway opposite the train station, with lots of little (expensive) food outlets.


Random old building near my hotel (an Irish named pub).



Next time, I might do up the rest of the photos I took from inside the Toy Fair (of exhibits that weren't Hasbro).