This time, we put up with our son who has a rented apartment at the Maribyrnong, a suburb situated 8km north-west of Melbourne CBD.
The place is quite convenient as we could easily get to the city by tram. 
The nearest tram stop is just 2-3 minutes walk. Travelling time to Melbourne CBD is about 30-40 minutes.
Tram like this one come by every 20 minutes, providing an efficient public transport system.
As this was the first time we travelled by a public tram, we had some difficulty in using the ticketing machine on board.
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It was complicated as there were buttons to press to do a transaction and it could only accept coins. Eventually, after a few tries, we managed to purchase our tickets - the fare was AUD7.00 per person for a return trip.
It took us about 35 minutes to get to the city after stopping at 40+ tram stops.
It was much easier to use the City Circle services as no tickets are required. The tram services are provided free for tourists around the city.
There are many street musician and this old man was playing the country style violin.
As we were staying in a city's hotel on our last visit, we just "Jalan jalan" to see some of the familiar places.
We hopped onto the free City Cycle tram and headed for the State Museum which we missed last year.
Inside the city cycle tram.
The entrance is AUD8.00 per person. As a senior citizen, I was exempted.
There are so many state's scientific and cultural collections in this museum. It was good to see the exhibitions of the past.
The magnificent fossil of dinosaurs on the ground floor of the museum.
Our next stop was our favourite pie shop "Pie Face" It was good to have a steak pie and a cup of skinny flat white coffee.
The lemon and pecan pies were delicious.
This shop offered a variety of different pies, like steak, chicken, thai pies - you name it they have it. In my opinion, this is one of the best pie shops in Australia.
We took a 30 minutes break in this shop and headed for home with some of the selection of pies packed for dinner.
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