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Melbourne Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Melbourne, Australia
The Living City
This is a top pick! ... the city and surrounding areas. After descending 55 floors in the elevator, I watched an informative 20 minute film on Melbourne's Attractions, although I'll remember it more for the cheesey theme music that accompanied it! Sunday was a fairly quiet ...
Melbourne - culture, sport and trams 23-28 April
This is a top pick! ... Melbourne and would definitely come back again it’s got culture, theatre, museums, art galleries and sporting venues - Australia Open and the Melbourne Grand Prix - so a pretty cool place to live. So the Australian leg of my travels has now ...
A New Year Means New Beginnings
This is a top pick! ... have now spent our first Christmas Day away from the nest and it was a totally different experience. Christmas in Australia is like a completely different holiday altogether (or maybe that was just our experience of it! Our plans to ...
Halfway around the world in 36 hours
This is a top pick! Damn my fading memory, nearly cost me a flight. There was little fanfare in the lead-up given this trip's quite momentous underpinnings. A single journey of thickest of Lonely Planet's guidebooks, 8 weeks total travelling, over 20000 km of ...
Australia and the bloody Olympics!
This is a top pick! Only a quick one until we have been in oz for a while....... We arrived in Melbourne fine, and after deciding to declare some tea and wooden souvenirs we had brought with us we were subjected to a full bag search which lasted a little under 2 hours ...
In the Words of David Bowie....Ch-Ch Changes......
This is a top pick! ... have decided to finish work on the 30th March and then take 2 weeks to complete the few outstanding things we wish to do in Australia. We then fly to New Zealand on Friday 13th April and will spend just over 4 weeks traveling the whole of New ...
Off We Go
This is a top pick! And we begin! I've checked in and am waiting for my first flight. I've never seen the airport so empty though I have to say. Even last year when I flew to Jo'Burg it wasn't this empty. (I have to admit though it was Sydney Airport which, even ...
The Dream
This is a top pick! In just under 3 weeks we will fly out of Melbourne to Bangkok on our way to India and then Nepal...this is the first entry of our travelogue and why we decided on this trip as part of our Long Service Leave. The dream started 5 years ago when we were ...
So far in OZ
This is a top pick! ... on the horizon. I also loved meeting my cousin Rob after such a long time and his girlfriend Ivana. After sometime in Melbourne we took a 10 hour bus heading for Adelaide and caught up with my other auntie, uncle and cousin. (Dads ...
Oh we do like to be beside the Seaside!!
This is a top pick! ... first we though we would be in for a good match. Well, the last 2 minutes were the only good part of a woeful game. Melbourne scoring a last minute winner. But hey, its another tick off our list. We have also now got tickets bought for 2 concerts in ...
In The City
This is a top pick! ... time in three days we ventured out for a city stroll. With many modern towers overlooking polished older buildings Melbourne seemed quite an attractive city. The European style laneways lined with food stalls and patio seating combined with ...
What You Leave Behind
This is a top pick! ... called the Container Bar, which was basically a hollowed out cargo container serving drinks in a car park - but like most things in Melbourne this is a lot cooler than it sounds. Then back to the Pint for more drinks and poker. Tuesday we were given ...
The Anti Tourist
This is a top pick! ... Grand Prix, and some kind of International Swimming tournament that the details are hazy on, and then next week it's the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Although we couldn't see the Grand Prix track from where we're staying, what with their high walls, we ...
The beautiful city of Melbourne
This is a top pick! ... to the Victoria Market, Telstra Dome, Flagstaff Gardens, the Stock Exchange, Queen Victoria Gardens, and all the areas of downtown Melbourne. It's a very nice city and seems to be quite young, wealthy and happening. I meet up with Sarah and ...
The Pursuit of Happyness
This is a top pick! ... might not get to see anything. Well on the Saturday it did cool down - due to rain. Although, we arrived at Melbourne Park still optimistic. Mainly because we are used to Melbourne weather ever changing. We decided on placing ourselves in the Margaret ...
The Holy Trinity of Travelpod
This is a top pick! ... , tell you about the time Vinny and his [some text missing] were coming to visit me and my [some text missing] in Melbourne but they got their flights messed up and when they thought they had seven days to prepare they realised they actually had two hours ...
Everybody Needs Good Neighbours.....!!!
This is a top pick! ... place, very cosmopolitan and lots to do. The main highlight was the volume of vegetarian restaurants. Apparently there are more in Melbourne than overall Australia! Well Oz was just about coming to an end so we made our way back to Sydney a few days ...
"Untitled" or "The Melbourne Walk"
This is a top pick! ... MCG and towards Cooks Cottage. We were a little rushed for time and so decided we would come back to the cottage. It is Melbourne's oldest building. This is a cheat though. It was built in England a long time ago, but wasn't moved to Melbourne until into ...
Melbourne & The Great Ocean Road
This is a top pick! ... the Twelve Apostles on the Great Ocean Road and to watch penguins returning home in the Phillip Island. Melbourne is the second most populous city in Australia, and is the state capital of Victoria. Located around Port Phillip Bay in the south-east of ...
We're getting over these long flights!
This is a top pick! Setting the travelogue up.. with the hope that the internet connections in South America dont send me into melt down with their speed! Heading into our last week at home - lots of stuff to do (or is it just in my mind?!) The biggest problem ...
Happy Christmas
This is a top pick! ... will be something to look forward to, and I am sure it will go on into the night. I am not even going to consider congratulating Australia on winning back the Ashes, as they are more smug than England when they win, and to be honest, most of us over here ...
Last day in Oz and a blast from the past.
This is a top pick! 17th July 2005 Our last day in Australia!!!!!!!!! We decided to go to an Aussie Rules football game at the MCG for our last day. We wandered the streets of Melbourne in the morning. We also met up with Andrea Shemwell, a colleague who I used to ...
At the Pokies
This is a top pick! ... day and the gardens just aren't doing it for us like the suggestion of gambling is. So we head over to the Crown Casino, Melbourne's gigantic ode to tacky. Al and I watch, lulled into another hypnotic trance, as a gentleman plays the dealer on the ...
World Cup and Uni Cities
This is a top pick! ... waste line. Last week, we completed the odd job around the house and fatted up some more.... On Thursday we headed down to Melbourne, no cheap busses like Asia, but still the 15 hours of enjoyment and crooked neck, I know poor us! The trip to ...
The Comedy Channel 2005 Short Film Festival
This is a top pick! This evening I attended the free outdoor evening show at Federation Square, as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's conclusion. It was well attended and the quality of acts very high. Out of the many performances my favourites were Dado ...
Ramsay Street!
This is a top pick! I didn't see Harold Bishop. In fact, I didn't see any of the 'stars,' but I really enjoyed the day out regardless. I think this was mainly due to the fact that we went on an 'unofficial' tour, which basically meant a guy from the hostel drove us ...
Phillip Island
This is a top pick! ... one particular one, so Kim and me went there and overfaced ourselves with huge medium sized ham and pineapple pizzas! Kim was leaving Australia on Saturday, as it was only a short trip for her, and she admitted to being a little homesick. She was a very ...
Money Running out... Must get job !!!!
This is a top pick! We had a 300k drive down the Hume Highway and we arrived in Melbourne. We already had decided we were going to stay in Melbourne for a while and get a job to fund the next stage of our travels. Plus we knew we would need accommodation as we would not be ...
Teenage Fanclub
This is a top pick! ... of talk about the Ashes series, and we both agreed it's good for the game to have such a close contest. I mentioned that Australia will struggle when Warne and McGrath retire in a couple of years! There's no doubt that the guy was very knowledgable, ...
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
This is a top pick! This is the last week of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and I have been frantically trying to catch as many acts as possible before it is all over. Yesterday I saw two shows: Julian Wilson in "Not My Rules" and the Comedy Knockout Comedy ...