Mantra Melbourne

... . Glad to have a bed, yet tired from our adventures, we had a roommate nap for three hours. That night, we walked around Melbourne and saw possums running around a local park. (Check out the pictures!) We went to eat in Melbourne's Chinatown, the oldest ...

... qui surgit, beaucoup de cafè français, des trattorie italiennes, gelaterie, grecques, polonais, portuguais etc. En effet, Melbourne est la 3eme ville greque au monde!   Melbourne compte 3 millions d'habitants. Elle était la capitale de ...

... sights and sounds of Melbourne, which is a much bigger city than either of us had initially realised. The markets of Melbourne, featuring earlier this week on MasterChef Australia (incidentally, tonight’s episode is just about to start and the whole ...

... dinner and then went for a short walk along St Kilda beach and watched a very nice sunset. St Kilda is one of Melbourne's liveliest and most cosmopolitan areas. It used to be a fashionable seaside resort until the 1960's when it declined to a pretty ...

... !  Since arriving in Melbourne we've driven the Great Ocean Road, swam with wild dolphins off the Mornington Peninsula, explored Melbourne Cricket Ground and all with only one minor traffic violation (speeding - whoops).  I've also rekindled my ...

... how to count... A Carefully Explained Observation, Treading a Minefield of Stereotype Before I provide this next observation about Melbourne, allow me, in being truthful, and avoiding of stereotype, expose the ridiculousness of effort required in being ...

... (Maud was expecting it to be 6 hours) from Christchurch we landed in a new country, Australia and the capital of Victoria, Melbourne. After the usual formalities at passport control it was nice to be greeted by the happy smiling face of Lauren Wills, and ...

... weeks trekking up the East Coast, it hasn't let us down. There were no adjectives left after our excitable description of Melbourne and Sydney -  2 cities that will be tough to beat on any travellers journey.  Unfortunately the weather blip in ...

No time to write about the busy day Brisbane with Melbourne Cup - but I don't want you to wait another minute to see the Famed French Fascinator - hot off the Cote d'Azure and already on its way home in a box.  I'll pull it out again for ...

... too. But you also have to get used to 3 ft monitor lizards  joining your picnic along with the deafening cicadas. So far no snakes have been seen, but lots of BIG spiders. Hilary Decker please note! The next blog will be from Melbourne. ...

... is to drive to Perth and on our way stop at some waterfalls, sail around the Whitsundays, visit Andy in Sydney,  shop in Melbourne, hiking in Tasmania and anything else that comes along. We have a 9000 km road in front of us and we are very excited ...

... where we have almost exclusively lived on sausages and chicken thighs with pasta. To quote Matt who we met in Melbourne he repeated a fellow travellers mantra “all you need to get around Australia are the two p’s: pasta and petrol”. We ...

... were now abandoning the refurbishment of our current transfer case and had opted to fly a whole new transfer case from Melbourne to Geraldton via Perth.  Despite "Jason" suggesting it might arrive on Saturday (wonder if he works for AAMI as ...

... inhibitions here and people are often categorized, including us as “foreigners”. Mark has a bilingual book at home in Melbourne that discusses, and has pictures of, each of the different ethnic groups, so we are looking forward to having a ...

... used to be a steep $20 for me, but are now a much more palatable $12 - arguably cheaper than the equivalent meal in Melbourne. Huge difference in the experience and so glad we are travelling right now! In a continuation of my good run since finding the ...

... . Who ever heard of that? Not the happy campers, that's for sure. But it's in Jervis Bay and that's where HMAS Melbourne sliced HMAS Voyager in half 30 or 40 years ago. The hordes go there from Canberra, Woollongong and Sydney for weekends and school ...

... ! I was ready to leave for Nepal, sickness-free and well rested. "Hey, this time tomorrow I'll be in Kathmandu, you'll be in Melbourne Ed, and you'll be... err.. back at work Cheang". We had passed a fun filled 4 days in Singapore with Cheang as our ...