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Melbourne Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Melbourne, Australia
The Great Ocean Road.
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Melbourne and some superb scran!!
This is a top pick! ... Tom 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 ...
Melbourne
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Remember, Remember
This is a top pick! ... impressed by how it was busy but not too much. I had found Brisbane a bit quiet, I had found Sydney too much, but Melbourne does quoting Goldilocks "seem just right". I like it. A friend of mine Steve compared it to Manchester as being the reason he ...
Everything But The Girl
This is a top pick! ... on the mend, and although I still have a hole in my back that leaks blood and pus, things are fine and dandy. The Australia Healthcare system rose to the challenge and performed at least as well if not better than our own welfare state. It was helped ...
Melbourne
This is a top pick! The city lights of Melbourne meant the end of our dreamsome 9,000km drive around Australia together. Getting to the campsite was our final chance to show off the skills we'd picked up en-route. While Rob sat in his chair very well, and fended off some ...
Hitchhiker's Guide to Victorian brass bands
This is a top pick! ... $108 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 ...
Great Ocean Road trip...YEAH!
This is a top pick! Having spent a week in St Kilda, a cool beach suburb of Melbourne heavily populated by backpackers, I felt it's about time to leave the city for a long weekend road trip. Route: The Great Ocean Road Destination: Apollo Bay Transport: Paul's station ...
Final Destination
This is a top pick! ... Ocean Road itself is just a road like any other, that starts somewhere near Adelaide and ends up in Melbourne. Apparently it's the most bendy road in all of Australia. And the views are nice. Koalas and such can be found in the gum trees that line the ...
Melbourne Grand Prix,.......... GO, GO, GO!
This is a top pick! ... city, before catching the train back to go to Flinders Square for the F1 build up. We'd missed the cars racing around the Melbourne streets in the morning, but there was still a few things going off and we managed to get our pics taken with the Ferrari ...
Resting and relaxing
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Home Again
This is a top pick! Good flight home on Thai (good airline to fly with- leaves Qantas for dead) and both of us had 4 and 5 hours sleep so all good for getting home. Lia and Lenis there to meet us and then reality was back in a flash as the freeway was jammed with the ...
Eastern Living
This is a top pick! ... available and cheap. I've been astonished that many times those three things do not coexist in this country. However, Melbourne is the exception with excellent food, a lively arts community, fun night life, historic buildings, interesting museums and an ...
G'day Possums
This is a top pick! Saturday 1st November Well I was looking forward to getting to Oz but sittng on our flight from Christchurch I opened our Australia guide (which we have been carrying around for the last 3 months) and turned to the "Flora and Fauna" section. Well quite ...
Wise philosophies from Bhutan and the Thai King
This is a top pick! "I think it would be a good idea." Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization First some news from Thailand and neighbouring Burma: "Landmine maims elephants Two young female elephants, aged six and two years, were ...
Touch Down in Melbourne
This is a top pick! We arrived in Melbourne at the rather silly hour of 3:30 Perth time (6:30 in Melbourne), so we didn't get much sleep. Martin kept watch (and went for smokes) while I passed out on a bench in the transit area. Despite announcements every few minutes, I ...
Uluru back to Melbourne
This is a top pick! KEEP AS DRAFT!! Used to reset pin to right place on the ...
A Tale of Two Cities at War
This is a top pick! ... . Maybe it's because we've lived in London so long we can relate to Sydney and its more urban feel compared to Melbourne's villagey atmosphere. I'm sure the majority of people who visit both may well opt for Melbourne's overall positives and ask us in ...
Back to the Rat Race
This is a top pick! ... pay on our new apartment, it's good that we are both actually quite enjoying the return to the rat race (although we are in Australia) Getting a job was not actually as easy has we had thought and been told that it would be, with most employers wanting ...
Sunny Melbourne
This is a top pick! As predicted, I didn't get much sleep on the 8 hour Greyhound journey. On arrival in Melbourne I was expecting cooler weather but was pleasantly surprised - it was actually nice and sunny, even warmer than Canberra during the last couple of days. I ...
One dangerously friendly city
This is a top pick! ... came out. It was about 20 years ago when I pained this on my walls. I guess I've been dreaming Australia for a long time.... *** WORLD CHANGE STARTS WITH EDUCATED CHILDREN! Give a girl the life long gift of education! ...
Melbourne is cold but cool!
This is a top pick! Get our Jetstar (another cheapie) flight to Melbourne. Weather similar here unfortunately but have been v lucky in the last few days. Get bus into town and our hotel 'The Miami' which is more like an old people's home than a hotel! Wander down Victoria ...
One for next time....
This is a top pick! ... – yes people not only did we detour to Brisbane we flew in and out of different airports! So we got to spend 40 minutes in Melbourne in between buses! Once we finally picked up the van we had no time left as we had to motor on to Sydney. We drove ...
Thai coup - media and comments
This is a top pick! In 1978 whilst the Thai King was visiting and helping a remote area in the North East a Western journalist mistakenly thought the King was trying to influence the communist insurgency. He asked "Do you think your visit and support to these people will ...
Shelia's Diaries part 4: Sydney and Melbourne
This is a top pick! ... been offered so much food for breakfast. Whereas my impressions of Sydney were a city almost trying too hard to show off, Melbourne seemed more reserved and content. It had such variety and the narrow lanes of the centerer oozed originality. If it ...
The 12 Apostles and The Great Ocean Road
This is a top pick! ... ; We hike down to a few vantage points and a beach which we enjoy without seeing any other tourists. We head back to Melbourne via the Great Ocean Road which provides amazing views as well as my first meat pie at a bakery in Lorne. ...
Australia Part 2 - melbourne +
This is a top pick! ... amongst them and there is also plenty of bird life in the cities. More so than I see in Bangkok. In Canberra (Australia's capital city) I went for a run early in the morning and saw lorikeets and rosellas (colourful birds) and kangaroos within 10 ...
Go West!
This is a top pick! ... how long we'll be on the road for, but we are all looking forward to another trip together. I'm a little sad to be leaving Melbourne; it is a great city and I am leaving behind some really good friends again. But this is part and parcel of travelling; ...
Last Days in Melbourne
This is a top pick! G'day everyone! Well after reaching the pinnacle of our Melbourne stay so far (neighbours tour), there really wasnt much else that could have impressed us! haha. Thats just another way to say that we didnt reall get up to that much! However, we were ...