Lots of stairs to get the heart pumping as we made our way to Joanina library. The bushfire smoke did not help the cause either. It’s considered one of the most beautiful libraries in the world and it definitely is gorgeous. The fun part for the kids was the level below it as it was the Prison academy, students were prisoned here for their wrongdoings. You make you way up to the library with its ornate walls and ceilings. It’s divided into 3 sections. In the olden days they had bats inside the library to prevents insects from eating the books and they have leather rugs over the tables and books to protect from bat droppings. Two colonies of bats still reside.
Then we headed to the chapel and the palace, roamed through the many rooms on display. Outside the courtyard there were still many freshers being welcomed to university life. It felt a lot like Hogwarts with all the cloaked students walking around.
We then headed to the botanical gardens where you can se the old aqueducts. Unfortunately the gardens were closed due to the bad weather so we decided to head to lunch uch and back to our apartment for the afternoon.
We ventured out in the evening as the smoke had settled a bit and walked around the river with the kids doing more cartwheels and we were all in stitches with our wheelbarrow races. The full moon was out and it was nice way to finish the day.
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