Entries in the ‘St Kilda’ Category:
filed in Albert Park, Cafes, Food, Melbourne, St Kilda, Tram Route 96 on Feb.07, 2010
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 [...]
Tags: Albert Park, cakes, coffee, St Kilda
filed in Beaches, Markets, Melbourne, St Kilda, St Kilda Beach, Tram 16, Tram Route 96 on Jan.19, 2010
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 [...]
Tags: artists, craft, market, shopping, St Kilda
filed in Gardens, Melbourne, Parks, St Kilda, Tram 16, Tram Route 96 on Jan.10, 2010
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 [...]
Tags: Art, Carlisle Street, Parks, St Kilda
filed in Markets, Melbourne, St Kilda, Tram Route 78, Vintage, Windsor on Dec.28, 2009
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 [...]
Tags: Carlisle Street, collectables, Funky Retro, market, shopping, St Kilda, Windsor
filed in Beaches, Food, Markets, Melbourne, St Kilda, St Kilda Beach, Tram Route 96 on Dec.15, 2009
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. [...]
Tags: beach, market, Night Market, shopping, St Kilda
filed in Gardens, Melbourne, Melbourne Botanical Gardens, Parks, St Kilda, Tram Route 67, Tram Route 96 on Nov.10, 2009
October was a wet month for Melbourne and the roses loved it. They’re in flower all over the city. It was time for a visit to The Alister Clark Memorial Rose Garden in the St Kilda Botanical Gardens. (See my previous post)
I went this week in the relative cool of an early morning when the [...]
Tags: Garden, Roses, St Kilda, St Kilda Botanical Gardens
filed in Cafes, European food, Food, Melbourne, St Kilda, Tram Route 67, Tram Route 78 on Sep.01, 2009
A cold evening, showers and a chill wind, your heading home and the big question is what to eat. Take-a-ways seem a good idea and you want something quick.
How about The Hearty Hungarian, in Carlisle Street East St Kilda?
The food is ready to go – no waiting around. All you have to do is make [...]
Tags: Balaclava, Carlisle Street, Hungarian, St Kilda
filed in Beaches, Cafes, Food, Melbourne, St Kilda, St Kilda Beach, Tram Route 96 on Jul.17, 2009
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 [...]
Tags: beach, bikes, coffee, St Kilda
filed in Cafes, Chapel Street, Food, Melbourne, St Kilda on Jun.13, 2009
Carlisle Street in East St Kilda was the Melbourne Place I got to know well when I first came to Melbourne. It was here I became familiar with Russian and Eastern European food for the first time.
The St Kilda Library in Carlisle Street has a large selection of Polish and Russian books in their foreign [...]
Tags: cakes, Carlisle Street, coffee, Eastern European food, Russian food, shopping, St Kilda East
filed in Gardens, Melbourne, Melbourne Botanical Gardens, Parks, St Kilda, Tram Route 67, Tram Route 96 on Jun.07, 2009
One of the attractions at the St Kilda Botanical Gardens is the Giant Chess Board.
There is an area set aside especially for Chess near the pond and the conservatory. It has built in bench-seats and tables. The tables have regular chess boards set into them so you can bring your own set, sit in the [...]
Tags: Chess, St Kilda, St Kilda Botanical Gardens