Get In the Hot Spot

"What's Melbourne like?" I asked everyone who'd ever been there before my visit. "Oh, it's fantastic. Amazing culture, shopping and cafes. Melbourne's great. You'll love it." That was the general consensus. I visited Melbourne last year for a blogging conference but I didn't see anything apart from a conference room and 150 bloggers. Much as I love bloggers (and I do!) when I went back for another blogging event I was dying to see Melbourne properly and experience it myself. You see I just didn't really get the concept of Melbourne or what everyone got so excited about. As Australia's second largest city there are the inevitable comparisons between Melbourne and Sydney. Of course, ... read more

This post has been adapted from one I wrote at my main blog, In the Hot Spot, during the Easter Holidays I had family visiting from England, giving me a grand total of four adults and six kids, aged from two to ten, to entertain. And that includes me. Phew! A thoroughly enjoyable time was had by all but I had to take a week off after the rellies left and my kids went back to school to recover from all the excitement and readjust back into my old friendless and beerless existence. So, here's a quick run down of kid friendly stuff to do during a two week holiday on the Sunshine Coast or in the Noosa area. This is the list of things I thought we should do that I emailed my brother, to ... read more