Melbourne Places

A summer’s day and the heat is up.  You pant a bit then fan yourself with your hand,  a light wind wafts around.  It is refreshing and with it comes an instant love of this movement of air.  It is easy to worship the wind on such a day.
In the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne there [...]

The yet to be named baby elephant is a Star.  Crowds are surging through the gates of the Melbourne Zoo daily and queuing to get a glimpse of this miniature elephant.   Yes that is what she looks like a tiny miniature of the grown-ups.

I couldn’t resist the urge to get my first look at a [...]

A day out at the beach can be expensive.  Everything along the foreshore is at a premium. It’s expensive Real Estate; the rents are high and  business hope to recoup from the patrons.  So it is a great surprise to come across Il Divo at Port Melbourne.  Il Divo has taken over the space that [...]

One of my favourite places to breakfast in Melbourne is the Mart Cafe at Middle Park – Middle Park tram stop for tram 96 to St Kilda.
This cafe is right on the tram stop – platform 2.  Notice the name – tram backwards.

In the summer I wander in early and make my way out onto [...]

Be startled, amazed, awed, moved or just plain gob-smacked.  This is an extra-ordinary exhibition.  Viewing twelve pieces of Ron Mueck’s work at one time leaves a lasting impact.
The pieces are either over sized or under sized.  For example there is the ‘Old Woman in Bed’.

A perfect representation of an old lady asleep – a tiny [...]

Summertime in  Melbourne is market time and markets spring up all over the place – Pre-Christmas I had great success with some Christmas presents at a market set up in the Elwood School grounds.
This flurry of summer markets led me to forget the markets that just keep-on-keeping-on.

The Esplanade Market in St Kilda has been keeping [...]

The St Kilda community has created a wall to bring people together rather than shut them off from each other.  They are calling it the Great Wall of St Kilda.
This wall is 11 metres x 5 meters and made of clay tiles, in total 807 tiles.

Two hundred and seven large tiles that capture characters and [...]

I had the luck to find myself at Blairgowrie Beach on the Mornington Peninsular for Christmas.  On Christmas Day it was amazingly quiet there.  I expected the little village to be filled with Christmas revelers.
It wasn’t.  It was closed and empty.
All these photos were taken on Christmas Day – when the lack of people was [...]

The Carlisle Street Bazaar opened just before Christmas adding another retail experience to shopping in the piece of Carlisle Street around the Balaclava Rail Station.
This Carlisle Street Bazaar replaces a store where I often browsed.  It was one of those stores that covered an eclectic range merchandise – clothes, furniture, home ware, jewelery, gifts.    All [...]

I was looking up the Olivia helps with Christmas story and came across this video of the Myer Christmas window. If you can’t make it down this year here is the next best thing.
The Myer Christmas window video, staring the book Olivia helps with Christmas