Fishing when you visit Melbourne. Have you thought of it? Instead of idling away the hours at the beach, do something useful. Fish. Fishing is not my thing, I’m afraid I’ll hurt the fish if I catch one. But I am tempted to give it a go on these lovely still mornings we are…
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Sweetpeas! That heady scent means the beginning of summer to me. The time of the year when the days start to get hot, the heat intensifies the scent. This year I have had the best blooms I have ever had. They are by the back door and the heady smell wafts in when the…
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The 2013 edition of the The Age Good Cafe Guide is now in the shops. At publication date a promotional coupon in The Age allowed you buy a copy for $5.00. Excellent value. Still extremely good value at the retail price of $8.99 and since publication the guide has popped up everywhere. It is…
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Middle Park – preserved Old Melbourne Tourists to Melbourne often see this city as the CBD and Lygon Street in Carlton. That was the way I saw Melbourne when I first visited here. I came a couple of times a year re-newed my friendships with these spots and of course the cake shops in…
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Brumby’s Bakery in the Albert Park shopping village has taken street art to a new level. This is a unique way to enter their shop – a couple of hops, a couple of jumps and you are there. It is a way for the kids to entertain themselves after they have finished their Baby-Chino…
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The Local Pub is a sports pub and on the evening we were there they had the Rugby world cup on every screen. There are a lot of screens. This is a plus if you are there to watch sport. We had a smallish screen on the wall beside our table. The Rugby…
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These hamburgers are so good that I would drive across town for one. But it is not just the hamburger that appeals. It is the the experience of watching the team at Andrews cooking them. They make it into an art form. Order your burger from the blackboard menu then hang around and watch….
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Albert Park and Albert Park Lake have moved into spring with the cutest and most beautiful baby swans (cygnets) sifting through the grass and gliding around on the lake. Some are very young – just balls of pale grey fluff and it is amazing to see them staggering about on their little legs. One…
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I had not intended to go to the Cricket Club Hotel in fact I have never thought of going to the Cricket Club Hotel. It is one of those Melbourne places that have never entered my consciousness. As a by-product of local advertising I found myself there on a cold winter night because a…
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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…
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