Melbourne Day 2

I got up in the morning to my phone ringing from home had had a chat to everyone enjoying a party in my house back home (I hope you cleaned up – you know how I like my house spick and span!) I headed into the town again and then took a tram out to St. Kilda Beach to meet up with Jenny from the Vietnam Tour. We met at the 'big mouth' entrance of Luna Park (a bit like a mini Blackpool Pleasure Beach) In fact St Kilda was a little like Blackpool with a beech front promenade and lots of little shops and cafes, we took a walk along one of the streets which according to Jenny has been home to specialist cake shops for years, you name it if its a cake or sweet or covered in chocolate you could buy it here.
We had lunch at one of the restaurants here then walked up the promenade towards the other end of the town. along the front were lots of stalls which set up on a Sunday selling handmade arts and crafts of all descriptions, at the main part of the town we found out that it also happened to be the gay pride parade in town and we stood and watched the various 'groups' going past – some of which I had to wonder what their connection to the parade was and with other it seemed more of a protest march, however there were a couple of strange sights in the parade. We called in at a Gelati Bar for ice cream and spent the next 5 minutes sheltering under a tree trying to eat it before the heat got to it first. Walking back down past the Craft stalls the heat from the sun was now really intense. Jenny insisted on me having some hand-painted fridge magnets as a souvenir of my visit (my reputation in Vietnam was for not buying any souvenirs!). I had had a great day and we parted back at the Luna Park Amusement Park.
Since the last couple of days I had started with a spot on the back of my neck and it was starting to get bigger, I'm not sure the sun did it any good today and buy the evening my neck was very stiff. (more on this to come...)