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Melbourne Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Melbourne, Australia
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 ...
Melbourne... an exquisite city.
This is a top pick! ... be interested to hear of other travellers' views on this. In a nutshell, Melbourne offers world-class multi-ethnic cuisine, exquisite fashion, Australia's best sporting events (Australian Tennis Open, AFL, C'wlth Games in 2006, formula 1 ...
"All together now...Neighbours, everybody needs.."
This is a top pick! ... you can! What we found funny was 'Erinsborough High, was actually a school for all the non-english speaking immigrants that come to Australia! (as you can see from the sign in the photos) The other thing we found out was the school has never been paid a ...
Welcome to Australia
This is a top pick! ... to my relief. If you think I was exaggerating about the rain I was later to find out that this was the worst weather Melbourne has ever experienced - at least since records began 150 years ago. In 31 hours we had a quarter of the annual rainfall. I ...
Anarchist Vegans
This is a top pick! ... cousins happy. Leaving Fred and Jackie to the joy of Christmas shopping I went for an aimless wander around the center of Melbourne in no particular direction just to take a look around. What I found though was a fantastic city, nothing remarkable as ...
The Cities
This is a top pick! ... Australia. I didn't have a lot of time and only managed to get a taste of what each city has to offer. Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney. Each had their particular charms. I have decided to tell the story of my time in these cities through the ...
Impossibly humiliatingly awfully arse-achingly bad
This is a top pick! ... and booked months in advance in the likelihood that the series would still be alive it was not surprising to see the streets of Melbourne awash with fat, bald, white - but soon to be pink - Englishmen wearing football shirts and singing. Maybe I'm a bit ...
Day 225-231: Melbourne to Adelaide
This is a top pick! ... number so we could hook up for a drink in the evening. I chose My Place coz of the glittering reviews it received on Bug Australia. However upon arrival we suspected that the hostel had paid people to put the reviews on...we were given a 6 bed dorm which ...
Melbourne Melbourne, My Kind of Town.
This is a top pick! ... culture of Victoria's finest city was one of the finest cities in the word, and also that anyone caught going into a Starbucks in Melbourne should be shot. True enough, I had such a relaxing time, taking it easy that I almost forgot to get out and do the ...
Australia - Melbourne
This is a top pick! ... to the library to see the Ned Kelly armour (PIC), only to find that the helmet was on a tour of Australia and wouldn't be back in Melbourne until mid 2007. The impressive view of the grand reading room in the library made up for the slight disappointment ...
Melbourne
This is a top pick! ... /06 Another driving day for Scott. Today is the reason we got the convertible - to drive along the Great Ocean Road. This is Australia's equivalent of PCH in California. We had a very sunny pleasant day - it was about 75-80 degrees out. Which we were ...
Another trip... due to commence.
This is a top pick! Being on holidays has really increased my appetite to travel again... so much so that I'm in the early stages of planning my next trip... not a long one, a 6 week trip at the end of the year. I'm thinking of going to Mexico and Central America. ...
Day 218-224: Prahran/Melbourne
This is a top pick! ... the end decided to meet up for a drink in the real world. Name is Pete, really nice bloke from Kent, a paramedic who's been in Melbourne for a couple of weeks staying with a friend but decided to spend his last night in a hotel in the city. Spent a couple ...
AFL and Parking Tickets!
This is a top pick! ... in wasting the morning. Met up with Dave for breakfast and he informed me that we had a parking fine! The traffic wardens in Melbourne are even more over zealous than the ones in England! We had parked in the correct place but received a ticket for ...
Melbourne, 12 Apostles and The Yarra
This is a top pick! ... to see him, and there were tears al round when we realised he had a 300 pound expense budget. Matthews in Melbourne for a design conference entitled "Futureground", where somewhat bizarrely he's presenting a paper on '1950's London coffee shops". With ...
Much closer to home!
This is a top pick! ... a different Australian city. I always said when travelling away that when I came home I would try and see more of Australia so this is my start! Melbourne seems nice so far and I have very little memory of the place. I have been here years ago for ...
Eb's Almost Leaving...
This is a top pick! ... , so my test message will be immortalised for ever more in the annals of time. So just in case, I'll stop now ;) Keeping you posted. Eb PS. The map thinks I'm in Canberra. I'm in Melbourne. I'm itching to see where it thinks I'm in next! ...
ppppick up a penguin
This is a top pick! Not having much time in Melbourne until we leave Australia for Asian shores we decided that we needed to prioritise and visit the most important sites of the city. Therefore we hopped on the "neighbours tour bus" and went to Ramsey street!! It was one ...
Day 204-210: Melbourne
This is a top pick! ... up Swanston St to the Half Tix box office which as you can probably guess sells half price and discounted tickets for shows. It's Melbourne International Comedy Festival time at the mo so there's loads to go and see, trouble is I haven't heard of most of ...
Melbourne
This is a top pick! ... to March is a good time to visit the city. Lots going on and the place is Sports mad. The Moto GP, The Melbourne Cup, this year the International Rules is on in Melbourne (and Perth), Spring Racing Carnival, The Australian Open and the Grape Grazing ...
Masters of Melbourne!
This is a top pick! ... Dan, Matt, Pat and I flew down to Melbourne on the most uncomfortable flight ever for a guy whos 6 ft 1! Anyway, we got to Melbourne with the intention of exploring the more cultural side to it, so thats exactly what we did. That was except for the ...
Hitting the road
This is a top pick! Executive Summary: I've been travelling through southern Australia. It's cold here. Unexpurgated version: Wow, it seems a long time since I wrote from Alice Springs. I had one more day there and walked to the Old Telegraph Station, the building of ...
Platypus Lust
This is a top pick! ... of space between rail ends. We pass through Woodend, Riddells Creek, Clarkefield. English sounding names and landscapes. Melbourne, too, evokes a younger, warmer London. People walk briskly and purposefully through the business district. We immerse ...
PS from Melbourne
This is a top pick! ... 5. The flight from Melbourne to Perth lasted nearly four hours and covered 2700 km. Perth is two hours ahead of Melbourne in time. and yet I'm still in Australia - it's a big, big country. 6. I managed to have a couple of hours in Melbourn's Royal ...
More Melbourne
This is a top pick! ... with sport. Just my luck then, that the only sporting event of note taking place while we're in Melbourne is a womens netball international between Australia and New Zealand. Pensioners basketball doesn't dp it for me, but they love it here, and the ...