Pancake Parlour Dancing and Public Transport Woes

Erica getting her boogie on in The Pancake Parlour, South Yarra............

Both kids were in remarkably good spirits (I guess pancakes will do that), given we had just spent two hours taking a train journey that should have only lasted 10/15 minutes! We were caught in this mess - Train Chaos as Man Runs Through City Loop.

On top of that we had already sat on the platform at Parliament Station for 45 minutes waiting for a delayed train before the crazy person decided to go for a walk on the tracks. Ordinarily in Melbourne if I know a train is delayed by a large amount of time I will head back out onto the street and catch a tram. However announcements kept coming over the speaker system indicating that the train was only delayed by 9/10 minutes (of course 9/10 minutes later there would be another announcement of a further 9/10 minute delay). Not very happy!

I should mention though that when we lived in Melbourne I regularly caught the train between Clifton Hill station and the city without any problems like those mentioned above. We were probably just highly unfortunate to pick that morning to catch the train.