Melbourne Places

Tarlo and Graham at the Windsor end of Chapel Street offer a great visual feast with their windows.

Strolling around the Windsor end of Chapel Street is always fun but what draws me back time and time again are the windows of Tarlo and Graham.
I find I’m drawn on a weekly basis just to check them [...]

The Wayside Inn is a stylish Gastro pub in South Melbourne.  When I travel around South Melbourne and Port Melbourne I’m  staggered at how many old hotels/pubs  have  been moved into the modern age with a makeover. It is also astonishing, if you keep your eyes open, just how many  you see that haven’t had [...]

This stunning piece of urban art is a work by Frank Malerba.

You can see it yourself as you head along Cecil Street away from the South Melbourne Market.

It is wonderful to be able to see such eye catching pieces of art during an every-day shopping excursion or a walk around the local streets.  Frank Malerba [...]

The St Kilda Botanical Gardens are in winter mode.  It is a lovely time to visit and see the gardens preparing for spring and summer.  Occasionally you see a sign of things to come with clumps of bulbs sending up their first spring shoots.

The ambiance in the Alistair Clarke Rose Garden is different at this [...]

Melbourne is a city of public gardens and parks but sometime it’s nice to soothe the soul in a  Melbourne place that is more like our own courtyard;  if we are lucky enough to have one.

The Garden of Eden Nursery in Albert Park is a Melbourne place where you can recharge your batteries and dream [...]

You don’t have to be a railway buff to enjoy a stop at the Victorian Railway Arts and Antiques – the place that is like a museum.
Ride the 96 tram that’s the light rail, to St Kilda and get off at the Albert Park Station.
From the platform you walk into the old, red, brick station [...]

Sunday. The sun is shining and the part of the world that is South Melbourne is buzzing.  A good place to take in all this buzz is at an outside table at the Red Star Cafe. On a cold day a window table inside would do just as well.

This cafe is right opposite the main [...]

For the next few Sundays life in St Kilda and particularly on Acland Street is going to get more vibrant.  St Kilda is in the middle of holding the Busking Festival.   The actual location for the buskers is being shared by various street venues.
Fitzroy Street have had their turn and last Sunday, April 18,  it [...]

The news report that  Rocco “Rocky” Pantaleo died in a road crash at St Kilda Junction gave me new insight into my favourite La Porchetta  restaurant in North Carlton.  I have written about it on this blog – see the link  to that post at the bottom of this page or here.
I knew nothing of [...]

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 [...]