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March 29th 2012
Our last day in Melbourne. Yarra Valley Winery Tours We met across the street from the Federation Square at 9 am for some wine tasting. Yarra Valley is about 25 minutes from the city. Unlike many of our tours, this tour was filled with many young people who were ready to drink and mingle all before lunchtime. We visited three wineries and every vineyard owner was extremely nice, fun, and full of jokes. We sipped wine with two English people, one which had recently moved to Melbourne, a Korean couple on their honeymoon, and a German girl who was in town for a wedding. After two wineries we had a delicious 3 course lunch and chatted some more. After our wine tour, we headed back to Melbourne to catch the season opener Footy game. This game ... read more
Melbourne: First Destination in Oz
Published: February 7th 2012Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » South Yarra
February 6th 2012
The flight to Oz was more or less uneventful (minus the fact that I had a cold and my right ear wouldn't equalize...ended up working out). We managed to find a camera at the NZ duty free that was about $100 cheaper than it would have been back home. Despite Rene's camera biting the dust, we decided to get this type of camera again because it's supposed to be a good camera and we're still not exactly sure what happened with it. Rene also had 3 extra batteries and a North American charger that we could use when we get back home. Only glitch so far is the video standards in NZ are different than in North America so we may have to download a new codex or some video conversion software back home. Hopefully it ... read more
Off to Cairns tomorrow
Published: February 6th 2012Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » South Yarra
February 6th 2012
hey everyone, so we are off to Cairn tomorrow for some much needed relaxing away from the busy city life, have been surving on the 'free food' cabient in the kitchen....you wouldnt believe how amazing a bowl of crunchy nut and some yoghurt tastes when you been eating noddles and pasta for the last week haha. we had a leaving dinner with all the lovely aussies on friday in a japanese tea house and had some yummy food. on thursday we booked our east coast trip, which includes: Fraser island, a great barrier reef cruise, a whitsundays sailing package, a dolphin feeding and motor bike ride in the sunset and a spot x surf camp haahh so we are defaintly gonna be busy for the next 6 weeks. have had some rather amusing people in the ... read more
October 17th 2011
Arrived in Melbourne after 20 hours in the air. The last time I was that high for that long was in 1975! Anyway, Melbourne is a fantastic city with a lot of life and character. Great cafes, restaurants, shops. They have an excellent transit system - you can get almost anywhere reasonably quickly on trains and trams via an intricate network of multi-directional routes- unlike Toronto- which gives tourists a great opportunity to visit the multitude of various neighbourhoods. Also met some really wonderful people, made some new friends, and hooked up with some relatives that I haven't seen in over 40 years. Have a look at some of the photos. From here we're moving on to Tasmania. Stay tuned for those photos as well!... read more
Great Ocean Road Trip Day 8
Published: October 2nd 2011Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » South Yarra
October 1st 2011
Today was our final day on our trip to the Great Ocean Road. After a restful night in our accommodation, Greg, Annette, Nesan and Cheryl headed off for some sightseeing in the city on the tram. We found a nice cafe for some morning coffee and then walked to Flinders Street Station to catch the free tourist bus for a trip around the city. We got off at Queen Victoria Markets for some shopping then caught a tram back to Flinders Street Station and a train back to the car in South Yarra. we had some much needed lunch and caught up with Peter who had had a relaxing morning in South Yarra Coffee shop. We were ready to leave at about 1:30pm and arrived home at 11:00pm. What an awesome ride and we look forward ... read more
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Great Ocean Road Trip Day 8
Published: September 30th 2011Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » South YarraSeptember 30th 2011
Today was our final ride of the Great Ocean Road trip. It was a very wet afternoon yesterday in Lorne and their was discussion about missing today's ride if the weather was too bad. When we woke up this morning there was patchy cloud cover and not raining so the decision was made to finish our ride. It was a great ride and the weather was fabulous, in fact 3 out of our 4 riders were sun/wind burnt. We can all now confidently say that Big Hill just outside of Lorne is defnitely not a big hill when compared to Lavers Hill. We finished our ride Anglesea and drove to Melbourne. Arriving in Melbourne it was very wet and we spent the afternoon hopping on and off the free tram visiting Queen Victoria Markets, South Bank ... read more
August 8th 2011
Hello from Melbourne. What a nice city - although it has been a bit chilly today. Had to wear a jacket for the first time. It was still sunny though - bit like a crisp autumn day in the UK. We had a great day today with Darren and Lauren - one very old friend and one new one! they took us around their Home town of Melbourne and we saw much, much more of it than we would have on our own. Had a lovely lunch in Chinatown - Dim Sum, then went to a fabulous cafe for afternoon tea - what amazing cakes!! Luckily, we did plenty of walking so I don't feel too guilty about the cakes.... Did a river cruise and drove down to St Kilda, which is a lovely place. Tomorrow ... read more
Sydney to Melbourne
Published: March 6th 2011Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » South Yarra
February 28th 2011
So after seeing Gav in Sydney we made our way to Tamworth for the Country Music Festival. We didn’t really know what we were in for, but it was definitely an experience. The festival runs for 10 days and there are various country music acts that play at numerous pubs throughout Tamworth. The main street in Tamworth is more like a festival atmosphere with buskers lining the street and various stalls selling knick knacks and what not. We spent 2 nights at the festival, the first day we saw a few buskers. Some were terrible but others were great. We also went to a few pub acts. The following day was much the same but we bought tickets to a Johnny Cash impersonation act at the Long Yard Hotel. They were really good except for his ... read more
FIRST DAY OF FALL (OR SPRING)
Published: March 22nd 2010Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » South Yarra
March 22nd 2010
First day of spring (fall) in Melbourne was cool and cloudy. It was perfect weather to visit Healesville Wildlife Preserve and check on the critters. Last year, the endangered species here were sent to the Melbourne Zoo for R & R as the bush fires threatened. Everyone was thrilled when three Tassie Devils were born. Guess the parents thought they were on a second honeymoon. We visited the usual suspects, three varieties of kangaroo, the devils, emus, wombats but the platypus was a no show. The best part for me was the wild birds that came to feed at the emus’ feeder. There was a Rainbow Lorikeet and a Gullah (a variety of cockatoo) and a wonderful, colorful parrot. The Sulfur Crested Cockatoo screeched overhead. After two hours strolling the grounds we left for the Rochford ... read more
Reka Yarra tece skozi Melbourn
Published: December 5th 2009Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » South Yarra
December 5th 2009
Sprehod po parku Owen naju je odpeljal v naravni park ob Yarri - Yarra Bend Park. Spremljala nas je njegova psicka Gipsy. Kosilo smo imeli v nenavadni indijski samopostrezni restavraciji na robu parka, kjer si placal toliko kot se ti je zdelo, da je hrana vredna. Denar smo metali v skrinjico. Hrana je bila vegetarijanska, a zelo okusna, malce bolj pekoca. Nacrt najinih prihodnjih izletov prilagajava studentki, ki ima se studijske obveznosti in sestri, ki ima delovne obveznosti. Pred odhodom v Sydney (12.12.) imava v nacrtu oceansko voznjo, pingvine in apostole. ... read more
