Melbourne Places

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 Beach Night Market has become an annual event on the St Kilda  calendar.

I love night markets.  The first one I explored was in Yogyakarta in Indonesia. There was magic in the air with the music and colours but I felt uneasy being in such a crowded place with so many dark corners. [...]

Weekend biking around the Eastern Bays  is a Melbourne tradition.  On Saturday and Sunday mornings hordes of bikers, in the very best lycra and helmets,  form packs and peddle furiously along Beach Road to Marine Parade in St Kilda and then on to Port Melbourne.

Those of us who drive have to keep a keen eye [...]

Get away from the crowds at St Kilda Beach and take the train to Sandringham Beach.

The Sandringham Train Line takes you right to the beach. The station is literally two minuets walk from the beach.
Grab the train at Flinders Street, sit back and relax while you gaze at the passing parade [...]

St Kilda is a great place to see some of Melbourne’s population of Rosellas.  They sleep in the palm streets around the tram stop at Luna Park.  In the morning you can see them flying off and at dusk they head for home in great flocks swooping into the palms and yelling to each other. [...]

There is no better place to be on a still, sunny, autumn day than St Kilda Beach. Take the light rail – tram 96.  It runs from East Brunswick through downtown Melbourne to St Kilda and past some interesting backyards.