Category: School Holidays

  • School Holiday Diary: Arden St / Melbourne Zoo

    Hey today I am going to be blogging about. Transport in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. In the morning I did not wake up to my alarm clock. Tried to have breakfast but we did not have any milk and the bagels were all mouldy.

    Left home at about 1005 hours and walked down to Warrigal Rd and waited 30 minutes for a bus. The even worse thing was that it was along the 903 Smartbus a route that is meant to have busses running every 15 minutes. SCREW YOU TRANSDEV MELBOURNE!!! I ended up arriving at Oakleigh at 1100 hours. I got on a train to Southern Cross where I would have to change for a Werribee train to go to North Melbourne. When I got of I had to look at the offline map of Melbourne that I  had on my phone.

    I met mum at the Arden Street oval. It is a local football oval that the North Melbourne football club use for training. The main reason that I went was to pick up the membership scarf for my family. The open training session was a bonus. My sister took photos of her and about half of the side.

    As suggested by my brother we went to the zoo afterwards. So yet again I was on a Comeng up the Upfield line (Bit of a tongue twister).

    We had rice for lunch near the elephant paddock. My sister wanted to see all the animals that were in Madagascar.

    Because I hate Comengs I decided to ride a B-class tram down the 55 route.

    I got on the train to go home to find that all platforms in the loop were stuffed but the one that the Pakenham/Cranbourne line runs on.

    Once I got to Oakleigh I was surprised that the bus that arrived was my favourite one on TRANSDEV. It is a volgren that they inherited from Invicta.