Australia is a football crazy nation. I was just going around the city as usual on a friday afternoon and I notice the roads all around federation square are filled with people and traffic has been diverted. I had never seen so many people in Melbourne till this day.
Turns out the AFL final that was to happen that weekend always precedes with a parade of the players and mascots etc. There was hardly any place to stand for me and I had to go pretty far to get a decent view of what's going on. The entire of federation square had different stalls for things ranging from face painting to kids section for playing football.
This is a structure that was quite mindblowing. I had seen this under construction a couple of days earlier and it made no sense at that time. I could just see a couple of Australian footballs hanging. Now it all made sense.
There was media everywhere. There was even a helicopter covering the parade. It was really a big deal here. It was fun to watch an entire city coming to stop on a Friday afternoon.
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