Melbourne Places

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 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. [...]

The head office of a company I worked for was in Park Street, South Melbourne, across the road from Chimmys.

Chimmys was the place to grab a coffee before racing to a meeting or a training course.  The Head Office moved and I forgot about Chimmys until recently when I was in Park Street and wanted [...]

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 [...]

The Hotel Nest in Albert Park is an ideal place for Sunday Lunch.  I’m not talking brunch here.  This is a place for lunch.

It’s an old Pub on the corner of Victoria and Page Streets that like so many pubs in the area has taken on a new lease of life.  It has taken on [...]

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.