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Melbourne Slideshow
Melbourne
Travel Blogs from Melbourne, Australia
Free tour!
... and we went to Tropfest, the world's largest short film festival. Hundreds of thousands of people gather in each of Australia's largest cities to simultaneously watch the festival's 16 finalists. It was pretty wild. ...
jittering our way down under
Hello everyone, this is Doyle, reporting from downtown Melbourne. The trip over was long, but uneventful. We stood in a few interminable queues; by the time we made it out of the customs queue, I was standing behind random people just out of habit. ...
Settling in, meeting Meat and Neighbours
... work out exactly like that, please forgive any jumping from subject to subject as I remember snippets of information. I've finally visited Melbourne City Centre, or CBD as they call it. Thinking back to GCSE Geography I can tell you that this stands ...
Wonderful people, wonderful place!!
... took so long was that they had to wait for an engineer to get out his bed to come and sign the paperwork!! Typical!! Arriving into Melbourne I was hit by crisp fresh air as I stepped off the plane. Tired, hungry and cold I plonked my bum down on the ...
around Melbourne
... and visitors by how pleased they are when it buckets down. It bucketed down last night! Tuesday I spent walking through Fitzroy into Melbourne and back. I did get on a wee tram ride - free! They do it well here for city transport - free circular tram ...
Melbourne
... . Luckily Chris hadn't forgotten Dan's love of curries, and had booked us in to the lively curry house in Camberwell (East Melbourne) for a fantastic curry, to satisfy our craving given it was our first curry in 4 months. Our days spent in Melbourne ...
Cricket
... the Realto tower for panoramic views of Melbourne and Port Phillip bay, which I didn't realise was so close. I also visited Melbourne Central which is a train centre and shopping centre with a difference. The shopping centre has been built around an old ...
Everybody needs good Neighbours!
Ramsey St here we come! Today we made the pilgrimage that all British backpackers make, to worship everything that is Neighbours. We boarded the neighbours branded bus and trundled off to meet and greet Dr Karl (autographs and photos....yipee!) then we ...
The best nights are the totally unplanned ones...
... meant to be a 5min walk straight down the road) We ended up at king street and while asking for directions, met some cute Melbourne guys just looking for somewhere good to go clubbing. They pointed us in the right direction (away from king street aka ...
Melbourne Aquarium
... Pacific Octopus Coral Cafe Aquarium Shop Level B1 Octopus display Kids Play area Level B2 Sharks Alive BHP Billiton Shark Conservation Project & Animal Nursery Oceanarium Ocean Theatre Melbourne Aquarium view from the Queens Bridge ...