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Getting to Ikea with public transport


So I went to Ikea today! This is fun having 2 apartments' worth of furniture (Geneva and Lyon) and trying to squish it into something approx 30sqm smaller... ummm not going to happen! So we'll maybe have to replace larger pieces with smaller ones...

Strange feeling going to Ikea in Melbourne... it's only 4km from the CBD . What the-? Usually they are in middle of nowhere industrial suburbs far from the city....

Also, this was the most emptiest store I'd ever seen! There were tons of staff doing nothing... and I saw probably only 10-15 people wandering the whole store...and most were Asian? So weird.

I got a real sense of nostalgia remembering how many times I went there in the past in other cities... it's my home away from home no matter which city I live in haha.. and once again I took painful public transport to get there.... as soon as I got on the tram a middle-aged Chinese woman was conversing with an Australian high school girl and she was showing the woman on her phone how to get to Ikea... the woman spoke into her translator app and translated Ikea... the schoolgirl was saying "Yes... Ikea..." I was going to try to help the woman out but I realised I didn't have a clue where I was going either.. but somewhere did eventually manage to find the right stop and then walk through a gigantic carpark to get inside the mall. It's one of the rare Ikeas located inside a mall...

Upon entering I promptly signed up for another Ikea Family card.

I had planned to eat lunch there but the stupid bus was 15mins late and then I had to take this tram which took forever so luckily I had the foresight to eat before I left otherwise I would've been starving...

This trip was nowhere near as eventful as my trip when I first moved to Lyon! Haha.. that was a huge adventure...

I was only there to do research though and measuring stuff and tried to come away without buying a single item! But alas, they got me at the exit... and once again for nostalgia's sake I bought a gingerbread house making kit, an almost annual tradition for me now... only 3.50euros (France) or 4.50francs (Switzerland) though... but $8 in Australia!! They've changed the packaging design too.

The bargain corner wasn't that great. Really disappointing as I usually find great stuff there- big or small. Not much stuff there... and unlike the Lyon one they didn't have random flat pieces from tables and shelves in all different sizes and screws at dirt cheap prices which you can use to make your own stuff.

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