Melbourne Places

The nice thing about doing this blog is that I keep learning more interesting information about Melbourne from the comments people leave on my posts.  I have written about this beautiful and tranquil garden before in the The Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden Post. Julie has left a comment asking about the  capsule that is underneath [...]

I joined friends for lunch at the Terrace Cafe in the Melbourne Botanical Gardens on a wet weekday morning.  It was a long standing date and we went despite the rain.
The easiest way to reach the Terrace Cafe that overlooks the ornamental lake is to enter the gardens from the corner of Anderson Street and [...]

The smell of food cooking leads you to the Suzuki Night Market.   The smell is delicious with the main ingredient being the aroma of barbecuing.  This is strange because when you get into the market there is an incredible selection foods – a chance to eat your way around the world with food from many [...]

The Myer’s Christmas window tradition in Melbourne is in its 55th year.   These window animations are always breathtaking in their skill and imagination.    As I viewed them I wonder how they did it?  How they kept the standard so high year after year?  I am glad they do.  The pleasure they to give locals and [...]

The Johnston Collection in Melbourne is secret.  Well, not really.  Although I heard about it only recently and was surprised no one had mentioned it to me before.  It is worth mentioning because the Johnston Collection is unique.
Because of its location in suburban Melbourne the address is a sort of secret.  This is so tour [...]

Last week I had lunch at the buffet in the Melba Room at the Langham Hotel, Southbank, for the second time.  It proved to be as good as my first visit about nine months ago.

The grand staircase leading to the Melba Room.
On this cold, bleak, winter Friday the dining room was almost full.  [...]

The camellia collection at the Royal Botanical Gardens Melbourne is planted in an imaginative way.  The area is a sort of square with a twisting path that wanders between the plantings giving a touch of magic – almost as if you were in a private room of camellias.

Turn right after this beautiful tree and  you [...]

This is an exhibition of frocks from 1855 to 1960.  It is interesting to see how design and fashion has changed over those 100 years.  Especially when you think it reflects enormous social and lifestyle changes for women.

Day dress 1865-1870 sold in Geelong
The exhibition focused on where the dress was made and sold – that [...]

The Sticky Institute was a great Melbourne Place to find.  I came across it one day when I was hurrying through the underpass from Degraves Street to Flinders Street Station.  I ducked into the subway under Flinders Street to speed up the journey and came face to face with the sign. I pulled up short, [...]

Rupert Bunny is an Australian Artist who having been born here in Melbourne left for the cosmopolitan world of London and Paris.  You can imagine how different life in Europe was at the beginning of the 20th century to life in Melbourne or any Australian city.  His paintings depict it.
Rupert had grown up in an [...]