Australia wouldn’t be Australia if there wasn’t sea food for Christmas, New Year, Australia Day any other occasion where people get together. ‘Chuck a few prawns on the Barbie’ is a sort of a joke but it is also what happens. All summer in Australian households across the country, sea food is being ‘chucked’…
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There is a sustainability tour you can join and take with a leader to tell you the behind the scenes stuff or you can pick up a map and followed the route at your leisure. Sustainability covers everything: Stall holders supporting small farmers whose approach to farming and animal welfare they know and approve…
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A day out from Melbourne is rejuvenating. There’s the drive, the chat in the car and the arrival of the green fields with grazing animals as Melbourne slips away. At the moment the fields are lush with the autumn leaves falling and the world out there is clean and fresh. How’s that for the…
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Mordialloc is a place I usually drive through on my way to somewhere else. This time I stopped. I was with a friend who had an appointment nearby that brought us to lunch time. We were lucky. We found Main Street Cafe. I didn’t expect to find anything with a Brunswick or Chapel Street…
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The South Melbourne Market has been up graded over the years. I can still remember when it was the cramped and crowed market that I fell in love with years ago. Now there is more space and there seems to be more light. I’m not sure if this is true but I remember it…
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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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I have lived in Melbourne for a number of years and thought I knew the place fairly well. But there was one great omission in my knowledge of this great city. I have never walked along the north side of the Yarra, that is the Flinders Street Station side. I have spent many hours…
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I decided to have a rest from Asian food. Asian food is so good, and so easily available I tend to eat it most of the time. I ended the old year with dinner at Uncle one of my favourite Vietnamese restaurants, also in Balaclava. So far this year I have eaten yum cha,…
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“I could live here,” that was my first thought when I stepped into Guildford Lane. It wasn’t such a silly thought. People do live among the businesses that operate here. Guildford Lane is tucked away from the main tourist laneway-attractions. This makes it quiet and gives it a homey vibe. When I saw the…
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I miss-judged the Stonnington City Council and what they were doing with the changes to the Windsor end of Chapel Street in my post “Walking Chapel Street Early on a Sunday Morning” A few weeks later and the flower beds are flourishing. Workers are cleaning the rubbish on a regular basis and more importantly…
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