Rydges Melbourne

... knocking it for some reason. We have now moved on an as I write this I have a view from the 15th floor of our hotel , Rydges, in Melbourne, more on Melbourne in a minute but first a little bit about Merimbula and Lake Entrance. We drove to Merimbula on ...

... 5 kilos! ALREADY!!!!! Yeah I am jist droning on and on and on and on and on because I don't know what to say! Um well Rydges is pretty awesome I just wish I hade more time to explore. I am reading tomorrow when the war began! It's really good. I read ...

... we crossed the international date line, we celebrated the first night of Chanukkah on the plane with my homemade, battery-powered menorah.  There were presents and everything. We got to Melbourne ok.  I'll fill in details of all that stuff ...

... ) in the Traralgon McDonalds carpark while the young ones feed. Stop for coffee at the servo. Ride the Monash Freeway to good old Melbourne town. Upgrade the room & hit the shops for the all important sunglasses. Who knew it took a hundred try ons & a ...

... years ago.  All of these came quite late in the afternoon, unfortunately so did the rain.  Nice sunshine when we left Melbourne turned into hail at the gorge and near gale force winds at London Bridge. I guess after 3 nice sunny days winter was ...

If day 1 in Melbourne was blokey, and yesterday was cutesy, then the word to describe today can only be cheesy! Today I took a tour to see Pin Oak Court in Vermont South aka Ramsey Street, Erinsborough. The tour guide was fantastic - he embraced the whole ...

... The rest of the day I just wandered around the city’s main park and taking the free tourist bus around to get my bearings, seems a really nice city and everyone super friendly.  Now looking forward to the next few days in Melbourne and ...

... - the weekend before we left Melbourne in fact - was my cousin Jana's engagement which we attended at the Sloaney Pony in Port Melbourne.  Ray and I decided that we would take my Mum and my Sister out for dinner there (as they had a nice little ...

... meaning that we had to wait till after drinks for our victory. After all the celebrations had died down we walked with the crowds into Melbourne and had some lunch before taking a trip to nowhere and back again just so we had had a ride in them.  We ...

... I know Dayne is safe as his sister used the tagging function on Facebook to let the world know she was having a sleepover at Rydges Hotel with her brother. The joys of social networking... So this was yesterday and today I awoke early. Still no word from ...

Went to Philip Island today, home to the Little Penguins made famous recently by Rolf Harris. Their nightly sunset trek up the beach was made easier as it was high tide, but watching them close up wandering through the sands dunes was great – some ...

... .  We then found the tram stop and waited patiently in approx 8 degress for the tram! The tram is actually a Melbourne tram that has had a colourful past in Melbourne and Sydney before becoming Christchurch's dinner tram in 2000.  Terrible ...