I have few complaints about the city of Melbourne and neighbouring towns. I think the services are really great, the lifestyle is good, and by and large, the people are generally open minded. However, there are two things that really suck about this part of Victoria. One is the Melbourne weather, and the other is the public transport system. Both the train system in Melbourne and the rural lines are erratic, with delays and cancellations occurring daily. It really isn’t acceptable in a world class city and one of the richest nations in Oceania.
Anyway, the reason I bring this up is before we had our clinic in Ballarat, I had to travel to Melbourne to get my anti wrinkle treatments. I thought parking would be expensive and inconvenient so I decided to take the train. Big mistake. Public transport is not something you and to be riding after getting your dermal fillers. Ballarat to Melbourne and back is about an hour on those rural trains, and that’s a long time to be sitting in full view of strangers with slightly reddened lips after treatment. The redness faded very quickly and was hardly noticeable but I still felt a little self conscious because I was afraid of bumping into someone I knew and having to tell them why I’d gone to Melbourne.
On another occasion I was traveling to Melbourne again for cosmetic tattooing. Ballarat didn’t have it’s own clinic at the time but it does now, thankfully. So during this trip, the trains were majorly delayed and I had to call the clinic to tell them I was going to be slightly late. I felt really bad for inconveniencing them but what could I do? I’m sure those Melburnians are used to this sort of thing. No wonder their society doesn’t run smoothly, it all comes down to the public transport delays.
Like I said, Ballarat has its own clinic now at last, so we don’t have to worry about travelling long distance for beauty treatments. Never again!