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Melbourne
Travel Blogs from Melbourne, Australia
One Year Later
This is a top pick! ... to 'Chav') and 'Root' (to perform the act of lovemaking). But I'll save the language guide to the much anticipated 'Australia... A Retrospective' entry. So in the short term things are pretty much as was. There are changes a brewing, but until I know ...
22 hours on a plane, you can stick Xmas up your a*
This is a top pick! ... be reading this journal entry and it should be after December 25th 2003, by this stage I should be in my home town Melbourne, Australia. See for about 2-3 months I had this plan to do the whole surprise the family and friends thing back home. Ahhh ...
Everybody needs good Neighbours
This is a top pick! OH Dear, behind in the blogs again and have to through my mind back to Melbourne...... ..right last blog was the grampians...so...argh yes back to Melbourne and Xmas. So we arrived back in the city on Christmas Eve, crashed out when James returned about ...
Deja vu....
This is a top pick! ... week getting Larry set up for our big trip, including some very expensive new shoes........ Nitty Gritty: Touched down in Melbourne around 9am on Sunday after an uneventful red eye flight from Bali, on which we were feeling seriously overdressed ...
Off we go
This is a top pick! Our trip started with a pleasant jaunt down to Melbourne. We left our house in the safe hands our the wonderful Kate and Doug, and off we went. We reached the airport with plenty of time to spare and had an uneventful flight to Singapore. Although it ...
" Its 5 Greens, its Go, Go, Go...."
This is a top pick! ... a shame the latter couldn't be said about the actual race day on Sunday. It was freezing, cloudy and occasionally rained - typical Melbourne weather! We got up early, hoping to beat the crowds, but it seemed everyone else had the same idea! Luckily ...
A strange and hectic last few months in OZ
This is a top pick! ... their company. It was of much distress to leave our lovely apartments, for the inevitable drunk ridden pits, that are.... the east coast Australia hostels. This however didn't last for long, as only 3 days after the folks went home, we had to have, just ...
St Kilda Festival
This is a top pick! ... somehow managed to lose Priscilla. We listened to Xavier Rudd, a one man band who is making a name for himself in Australia playing didgeridoos, guitar, harmonic and drums. He was fantastic. We then watched the Cat Empire who are also beginning to ...
Kangaroos and Emus...
This is a top pick! ... her food & drinking all her wine, only redeeming ourselves by feeding the cat, doing lots of cooking & cutting the grass! Melbourne is great fun with lots of beautiful old shopping arcades and thousands of great restaurants and cafe bars.. not unlike ...
Melbourne
This is a top pick! ... are pubs?!! There was dinner with the Grechs including Anna Grech who has questioned why she hadn't featured in the Melbourne part of the blog thus far! There you go Anna Banana! Heeee! PS: Lots more to come on our ...
First day in Oz and its bloody raining!
This is a top pick! Ever since I was young I have wanted to visit Australia, partly to follow in my parents footsteps (they lived here for 3 years in the seventies), and also because I wanted to experience the sun soaked surf life - Newquay just doesn't cut the mustard! ...
This place is AMAZING!
This is a top pick! ... on that and then use the remaining cash for fun and frolicking. Well I moved out of Lou's on Friday and into the Melbourne Connection Backpackers. Carsten and I went out on Saturday with $20 dollars (8 quid) between us. Carsten's $20 dollars that is. ...
4 Seats each in Economy-who needs 1st Class seats!
This is a top pick! So holiday over... just a 19 hour trip and well be back in oz... but first an "almost drama" - one that could have been the big story of the holiday.. but then again could have been nothing... luckily, we'll never know which...... We arrange for a car ...
Long Walk Round Town
This is a top pick! ... hours reading I decided to have a wander along the Yarra a bit further and went to take a closer look at the famous Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). Pretty impressive stadium and hopefully I'll get to see some sporting event in there sometime. If I'm still ...
Almost Kilda
This is a top pick! ... flare it back up again. Just thankful it never happened in Alice Springs. I'd decided to check out St Kilda one of Melbourne's other well known districts down near the beach with the hot day making it seem the most appropriate place to go. Stepping ...
Sydney bound in Melbourne
This is a top pick! ... talk with tourists. Catch 22. Flying to Sydney in 2 days! Can't wait really, although I'm sure I'll be sorry I didn't check out the Melbourne museum (totally do-able alone) as soon as I get on that plane. I need to get going. Go for a run or ...
"Home sweet home..."
This is a top pick! They say moving house is the most stressful thing you do in your life, well after viewing 20 + apartments in Melbourne, i would agree. I spent the first 2 weeks staying in a recently built 'flashpackers' in the city, and although nice and clean, it was ...
The Great Ocean Road
This is a top pick! ... find here as well, and as we were only 1hr away from Melbourne, we decided to go straight there and check into a hostel in South Melbourne. So that ended our 2nd road trip and we have decided to give driving a miss for a while as we are both sick of ...
Finally in Melbourne
This is a top pick! ... to get lost on one occasion where the sign posting in some wild west town was a bit misleading. It was a breeze driving to Melbourne although on arriving at Dandenong on the outskirts it became total gridlock so we had to crawl our way along the final ...
I have bought a ticket and a suitcase!
This is a top pick! I have bought a ticket and a suitcase! The Browns - those extremely generous friends from long ago Monash days who have invited me along with them - are having farewell drinks. They are heading off to the World Cup cricket in the West Indies in the next ...
It's hot here..
This is a top pick! 'G'day Cobba!' The Aussie Adventures have finally begun. Stories and pics coming soon.. ...
Back to Oz!
This is a top pick! ... of Lassiders and, it brought a tear to my eye, but we also saw the drain that bouncer fell into and died! Whilst in Melbourne i contacted a friend whom i met in Nepal named Sally. We only met for a few nights at a place called Chitwan but had stayed ...
It's a beach of a day
This is a top pick! ... to a McDonald's ice cream sundae....we are bad people! We have found out that Andy Murray isn't playing at the Melbourne Open tomorrow, we think he is playing Tuesday. Therefore we aren't bothering getting tickets as we leave for Sydney on ...
Off to St Kilda - sounds like a TV Hospital show!
This is a top pick! ... also stuck in my fragile little mind - "Life is a waste of time, Time is a waste of life, Spend your time getting wasted, And you'll have the time of your life" Brilliant - this is what we shall do! Our last full day in Melbourne was ...
Hanging around for a bus to Sydney
This is a top pick! ... Street areas. Don't think I could live here, but it's still a nice place to visit. Sydney is still my favourite City in Australia. I never thought it would be, but it just seems to have everything - city life, beaches, harbour, parks, sports - really ...
Hot and bothered
This is a top pick! ... department stores and train stations to cool down. I actually book a haircut at Kings Hairdressing, part of the newly renovated Melbourne Central station. Without a firm grasp of distance in the city, I convince everyone we can walk and likely catch a ...
In Melbourne for the school holidays
This is a top pick! ... 't see out of the window. It made taking off and landing nerve wracking. The landing was quite messy. Melbourne is hosting the International Comedy Festival at this time. Last night, I spent several hours watching several outstanding ...
Ready for the cricket & the tennis
This is a top pick! Nothing much today. We got to Melbourne at 6.45am. We dropped our bags off at Greenhouse Backpackers and had some breakfast. We then went to the visitors centre to pick up some local maps. It was then time for a second breakfast for Simon - coz I'm a ...
Trying to get home
This is a top pick! ... Hong Kong airport, a 13hour flight and a national express coach I made it to my parents house in Preston 105hours after leaving Melbourne. Perhaps it was Karma's way of bringing us back down to Earth. And finally, Reasons why England's great #6 - Its ...