Melbourne, Australia Travel Blogs

... 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 day ...

A travel blog entry by rich
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...  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 ...

A travel blog entry by paulandciara
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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 of ...

A travel blog entry by themurphys
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... 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 Melbourne ...

A travel blog entry by mills-mcshea
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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 ...

A travel blog entry by thomaswguy
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... 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 Zealand in ...

A travel blog entry by paulandciara
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... grossed out with the death masks of convicts on show, including Ned Kellys! Then it was time to stop for a well needed late lunch at the Elephant and Wheelbarrow before taking a wander around Melbourne and enjoying the gorgerous builidings, old and new.

A travel blog entry by carolandthomas
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... 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 side)  ...

A travel blog entry by thomaswguy
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by paulandciara
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... . It was also Becky's leaving do, as she was finally leaving to New Zealand after having spent even more time than I did in Melbourne. So Fancy Dress was the call of the day. Becky herself came as Dolly Parton - can't think why, perhaps it's the blonde ...

A travel blog entry by foolsgold
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by foolsgold
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by paulandciara
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... , 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 before ...

A travel blog entry by loudan1979
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... , 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 ...

A travel blog entry by foolsgold
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... 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 Antony ...

A travel blog entry by madman96
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... 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 were ...

A travel blog entry by paulandciara
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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 ...

A travel blog entry by tonyandsarah
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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 ...

A travel blog entry by jawad
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by cristinaw
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... 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 one- ...

A travel blog entry by wanderlustcat
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... the aid of an assistant. Suffice to say I now know some choice slang words in sign language. Today I ventured to the Melbourne Town Hall box office and "HalfTix" booth on Swanston Street with the sole purpose of getting tickets for either The Umbilical ...

A travel blog entry by jawad
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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 around ...

A travel blog entry by rich
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by rich
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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 ...

A travel blog entry by paulandciara
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... 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, ...

A travel blog entry by rich
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15th July 2005. We flew into Melbourne airport early in order to get a hire car ad to drive the great ocean road. We drove up to Warrnambool in order to walk Gibsons Steps and to see the 12 apostles at sunset. The sunset wasnt that great but we did et ...

A travel blog entry by tonyandsarah
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... landed on our feet for sure this week! We were staying with Tom's aunt Cathy and her family in a suburb of Melbourne called Mooroolbark. We got 5* treatment - trips out, dinner at home and restaurants paid for, free internet......... It was amazing, ...

A travel blog entry by hels_belles
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... per passenger (one way) and $10 for the vehicle. It costs as little as $59 inclusive to fly to Tasmania from Melbourne airport, but we'd rather do this road trip together from the start. Tasmania will be my forth Australian state / territory, only four ...

A travel blog entry by jawad
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A... Many people we spoke to in Sydney assured as that we'd find Melbourne has a much more English feel to it. This has certainly been true; it's been cold, windy and wet. Thankfully though we escaped the flash floods that struck a couple of days before ...

A travel blog entry by ad_n_caz
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I love Melbourne. My Mum lives in a fabulous place near Lygon Street and a walk away from the city centre. Fantastic. I love staying there. I miss having animals so another good thing about Mum's house is her two Jack Russels, Rupert and Jeannie ...

A travel blog entry by lucinate
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