If you’re looking for a free outing in Melbourne, pay a visit to the National Gallery of Victoria in the city. The NGV houses an extensive collection of art from Europe, Asia, America and Oceania. It has permanent displays as well as a large ground-floor space and other areas used for temporary exhibitions.
We’ve recently returned from a weekend family get together in Melbourne and as per usual it was a head spinning few days of discovering trendy places to shop, relax, eat and drink, packed into just a few short days. And no visit to Melbourne would be complete without being on the lookout for street art… Read More Melbourne Wanderings 2023
We always love visiting Melbourne to visit family and for someone like me, who rarely ventures near a city, it feels a bit like being set loose in another universe. No matter what time of day or night, there are crowds of people in the suburbs and where we stay in Fitzroy North, this seems… Read More Doing Melbourne like a Local
Goldy’s Tavern in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood is a little gem of a traditional style pub in the burbs which is a must see for the retro fans out there, or for those of us that lived with this décor the first time around.
Here’s a unique venue to try in Melbourne city. Arbory Afloat, as the name suggests, is a floating bar and restaurant on the Yarra River, in the heart of Melbourne. Each year for the past five, this floating casual bar has been operating on the river and this year the décor has been altered to… Read More Arbory Afloat – Melbourne
You shouldn’t miss a stroll along Lygon Street when you visit Melbourne. This leafy tree lined street in the heart of Carlton is known as ‘Little Italy’ mainly due to the Italian families who populated the area when they migrated in the 1950s and it’s the place where Melbourne’s cafe culture was born. History names… Read More Johnnys Green Room Rooftop Bar & Lygon Street Carlton
