Rendezvous Melbourne

... in the USA. I'm bringing Inge with me across to Berlin to meet our other exchange friend Ufuk. After that I'm flying down to rendezvous with the family again for five days in Venice checking out the canals and history. That will end my stint in Europe ...

... walk but the city was really easy to get around, even at night and never having been here before. We're staying at the Rendezvous on Flinders Street, right across from Flinders St station (the one with the big clock). It's a really good location. It was ...

... Weg überquert hat. Man weiß ja schließlich nie. Dann mehr oder weniger auf direktem Wege nach Melbourne. Unterwegs noch eine Internetgelegenheit mitgenommen und eine Überraschungsunterkunft in Melbourne gebucht. Gar nicht so schlecht. Den richtigen ...

... langärmlig ganz dringend notwendig war. Dann einen Ausflug aufs Skydeck in den 88. Stock und eine herrliche Aussicht auf Melbourne. Gleich noch eine Karte für den Abend gelöst. Am Nachmittag noch schnell auf den letzten Touribus for free aufgesprungen ...

... resulted in walking a good 15 minutes with backpack on. Ideal. Negatives aside, we were joyous and gay, revelling in this unexpected rendezvous across the world. We were also excited for what was ahead. Neighbours Night! I’d sort of put my stay in ...

The Picturesque Yarra Valley. Wine and food tasting for ...

... to be sure, whose greatness might have come from its distinct and astonishingly good smell of eucalyptus trees.  We ended up at a rendezvous point of sorts, Lorne, which is the sort of summer town that rich high school kids go to, dress up, spend ...

... and started to check the toilet padlocks. It crossed my mind briefly that the worker and the guy may have had a secret rendezvous organised and the maintenance work was just a sexy ruse, but when beardy came out looking flustered I realised this wasn't ...

... to a 4 litre box of goon for $10. Unfortunately the weather is still pretty crap so the day is wiped out apart from a rendezvous with Patrick from the road trip for a couple of cold ones in the bar. The weather didn't improve much the next day either so ...

... her there either- the knackers yard was next door) but he did give us some useful info. cheers mate. this is going to be harder than we thought! later, back at base we get a promising phone call and we arrange a rendezvous for tomorrow in the ...

... . The last time we'd met Paul he had only just met Lisa and their mutual pleasure in this rendezvous was very apparent. Luckily, things had calmed down a bit. Melbourne put on a show for us with the St.Kilda festival. It's the largest single day music ...

Fortunately we were able to check straight into our rooms at the Hotel Rendezvous (lovely, in the old quarter, run by an Australian couple around our age) despite arriving at 4.30am so got a few more hours kip before breakfast. After opening birthday ...

... a nice little flat in Brighton?!) and achieved a couple of particularly practical results in the morning:  a) changed our flight tickets to Melbourne so now flying out of Kuala Lumpur on May 16th rather than April 15th. A big relief as we now won't ...

Addendum. In final Sydney News... After Melbourne most ex members of the edge (Chris, Renee, Mike, JK, me) and other pals rented a beach house in Woy Woy (what a funny name everyone!, anyone?). It rained for 3 days straight (apart from 15 mins) so we ...

... . From Flinders Street station we went looking up Elizabeth Street for a tourism place, but when we found it we were told the Rendezvous Hotel (our pickup point for the Go West Penguin Parade tour) was opposite the station we’d just come ...

... back to the Kiwi bus and we continued our way down the coast before cutting inland towards Wanaka. Well this concludes Part 1, part two will include my Queenstown adventures involving snowboarding and the Milford Sound as well as my Family rendezvous. ...

... bank teller damaged my Visa card so an urgent replacement was organised to be sent out and luckily I managed top rendezvous with it in Melbourne). I arrived safely in Melbourne after a lovely flight on a super flash brand spanking new Air New Zealand ...

... bus stop home. When the bus made an appearance we bade each other farewell, going our separate ways until our next rendezvous. The City Circle again took me back to Central from Wynyard, which I note was accessed by funky, chunky wooden escalators, and ...

... wagons ahead.  She was convinced I was asleep and would be heading to the Russian border so was pretty teary when we did rendezvous.  As luck would have it, this was our wedding anniversary.  We celebrated in style with a lovely dinner in ...

... .  Went back to cabin a couple of times to see if bags had arrived.  Lifeboat drill @ 4.45 – squashed into Rendezvous Lounge.  Three very obvious 'family’ members doing the demo. Don’t realise we’re pulling away from ...