Tag: Melbourne

Day 165 – Farewell, Melbourne. You’ve Fed Us Well.

Risa was up early (7:45 is a sleep in to most people, but this required the use of an alarm and loads of willpower) to meet some friends…

Day 164 – Eating, Eating, Eating in Melbourne

We haven’t really done the usual tourist things in Melbourne, like visiting the zoo/aquarium, or exploring the lanes with street art around Collins Street, or whatever else it…

Day 163 – Akimi’s Kitchen

We wanted to go to the Queen Victoria Markets today, but for whatever reason, it’s shut on Monday and Wednesday (today is Wednesday), so that kind of ruined…

Day 162 – Yarra Valley

One of our friends from Japan is visiting Melbourne for a few days this week, so we have worked on being here at the same time so we…

Day 146 – Mrs Parmas (and The Spirit of Tasmania)

Due to the start of daylight savings time in Victoria (and most of the other non-backward states – I’m looking at you, WA and QLD) we effectively ‘lost’…

Day 145 – Mountain Biking at You Yangs

Our friend that we are staying with just bought a new mountain bike (and quite a nice one at that). He was itching to take it for a…

Day 144 – A Sunny Day on Mornington Peninsular

Since we’ve been travelling in the southern part of Australia, I’ve been paying more attention to the weather (the northern part was quite reliably sunny, sunny, sunny, sunny…

Day 143 – Melbourne with Dad

The number plates here in Victoria proclaim, ‘Victoria – The Place To Be’. Judging by the number of people that we know who happen to be here at…