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HOT: Jungle Juice, 20 Centre Place, Melbourne
Blog: MEL: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Melbourne - 10 November 2009
When you type ‘friand’ into Microsoft Word, the spellcheck automatically turns it into ‘friend’. Rather appropriate really – friands and I are definitely friends. Recently my human friend B informed me that Jungle Juice made the best friands he’d ever had. I thought that this was definitely a claim worth confirming…. …and wowsers! My banana and strawberry [...]
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Inside the Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas
Blog: Hackpacker - 8 November 2009
This weekend I went to the first workshop at Melbourne
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HOT: Proud Mary, Cnr Stanley and Oxford Sts, Collingwood
Blog: MEL: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Melbourne - 7 November 2009
Lena: Do you really not drink coffee????? Jetsetting Joyce: Um, that’s right. I’m not a true Melburnian. Can you and James please come to Proud Mary with me? It’s reputed to have the best coffee in Melbourne and I’d really appreciate your expert coffee-drinking opinion. James: Sure. I have been coffeeing a bit at Brother Baba Budan and [...]
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HOT: When the Rain Stops Falling, Sumner Theatre, 140 Southbank Boulevard, Southbank
Blog: MEL: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Melbourne - 5 November 2009
Out of the three plays I’ve seen at the MTC this year, Brink Productions and Andrew Bovell’s When the Rain Stops Falling, is an absolute standout. That really says something when you’re comparing it with Tony Award winning, Broadway and West End hits August: Osage County and God of Carnage. When the Rain Stops Falling is [...]
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HOT: TOFWD The Organic Food and Wine Deli, 28 Degraves St Melbourne
Blog: MEL: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Melbourne - 3 November 2009
TOFWD is a mouthful of a name, but at least there’s no second-guessing what’s on offer at a place called The Organic Food and Wine Deli. This Degraves Street café and mini-health food shop serves organic food to the lunch masses, with pies, rolls, sandwiches, bowl food and sweet things on offer. I had a pumpkin [...]
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HOT: Point & Shoot Camera Basics, Centre for Adult Education, 21 Degraves St, Melbourne
Blog: MEL: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Melbourne - 2 November 2009
My trash TV confession – sitting through 12 cycles of America’s Next Top Model. But now it appears that all those hours have been time well spent! I’ve absorbed quite a bit of knowledge on photography and light while watching ‘fierce’ Tyra Banks and a bevy of model wannabes. That’s not to say I didn’t learn [...]
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HOT: Shocolate, 3/296 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
Blog: MEL: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Melbourne - 31 October 2009
It appears that Melbourne’s appetite for artisan chocolate just keeps expanding – Shocolate is a shiny new chocolatier that has just opened in my hood, near the corner of Brunswick and Johnston Streets. On a steaming hot Saturday the outdoor tables in the teeny front area where all occupied, but anyway we wanted to escape the [...]
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HOT: Peko Peko, 199 Smith St, Fitzroy
Blog: MEL: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Melbourne - 30 October 2009
The strip between Johnston and Gertrude Streets on Smith Street is takeaway heaven. Slowly RM and I are taste-testing our way down the street as our workloads increase and cooking-energy levels decrease. Peko Peko is billed as a Japanese cafe and it seems to be a popular local haunt. The small, relaxed place is decorated with a [...]
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HOT: Migo’s, 289 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Blog: MEL: HOT OR NOT - The decisive guide to Melbourne - 30 October 2009
I normally bring my lunch into work so that I have time to fit in a gym session in my lunch hour. However, when I’m disorganised about my lunch, I tend to use it as an excuse to be disorganised about the gym too. So today, lunch-less, I abandoned my gym gear for the second [...]
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Cheap Holidays / backpacking:Cheap flights: Saving $500 or more flying Melbourne to Egpyt
Blog: Backpacking on the Cheap - 9 October 2009
CHEAP BACKPACKING/CHEAP FLIGHTS:Stick your tongue out at high flight prices Everyone wants a cheap backpacking experience, and getting a cheap flight is obviously an important part of doing this.
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Who is Sam Knott?
Blog: Hackpacker - 25 September 2009
As you're driving from Melbourne towards Warburton, you might notice your health being toasted by a Father Christmas-like gent by the side of the road.
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Melbourne, Australia
Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 21 September 2009
For the most part we have hit the ground running when we've arrived in new places, but our start in Melbourne was a slow one. Our flight from Auckland didn't get in until almost midnight and the following day was a soaker.
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Southern Star dimming
Blog: Hackpacker - 17 September 2009
In 2008 Melbourne's skyline saw the building-up of a large Ferris Wheel in the re-vamped Docklands.
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Out of Luck
Blog: Hackpacker - 30 August 2009
When I had to write about definitively Melbournian experiences for Lonely Planet's the City Book I included this:
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MIFFed film goers
Blog: Hackpacker - 9 August 2009
As the line to 10 Conditions of Love sprawled out the front of Melbourne's Town Hall and ran a full city block up to Russell St, China's decision to oppose the film's screening was looking like the best publicity the could hope for.
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Melbourne Pt.2
Blog: Where is Rob? - 6 August 2009
My second visit to Melbourne was quite an eventful one involving 2 jobs, lots of Tennis, an art exhibition, as well as a 3 day stay in an Australian hospital with a suspected case of swine flu.I was staying back of the nunnery so was taking full advantage of the free food on offer there and stretching my budget as fair as humanly possible. Last time I was in Melbourne I was introduced to a [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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The Long Road to Melbourne
Blog: Where is Rob? - 19 July 2009
It all started when we got to Townsville and thought maybe we should head back to Melbourne for a bit. We saw an advertisement all over town asking if anyone wanted to join a guy who was making the journey to Melbourne on Friday and would very much like it if someone other people would like to join him to save on money as well as share the driving. When we first saw the ad, I didn't think much [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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Video Tour: Lonely Planet's HQ
Blog: REID ON TRAVEL - 9 July 2009
Interested in seeing Lonely Planet's Melbourne offices? Here's an Orson Welles-inspired single-shot sequence up the many stairs of the Footscray offices of Lonely Planet by this out-of-breath FlipVideoist.Warning: It's not an award-winning production by an means, but you can see where some super coffee's made -- and a knock-out view of Melbourne up top.
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On Platform 2: The 8.05 to Adelaide!
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 9 July 2009
In 2007 I underwent a journey of discovery regarding interstate train travel in Australia.
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Crocodile shows
Blog: Oh, the places you'll go! - 28 June 2009
Today we went to a crocodile show at the Melbourne Zoo called Crocodilia. Almost five months ago to the day, we went to a crocodile show at the Phuket Zoo in Thailand. Can you spot the differences? I know, I know, it’s easy to see: at the Melbourne Zoo, the keeper is handling a juvenile American [...]
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The Great Ocean Road
Blog: Where is Rob? - 25 June 2009
The organising of the great ocean road, road trip took just about the same amount of effort as the actual road trip itself. It was Wednesday evening and I was enjoying a rather stale bowl of cereal in the hostel kitchen when Tommy came up to me and said a random French dude was looking for some people to do the Great Ocean Road with. At this point I had never even heard of it and therefore was [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
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Three Melbourne Art Galleries
Blog: Hackpacker - 22 June 2009
If you ask any other Australian what they think of Melbournians, the word 'arty' comes up as often as 'coffee'. We're known for our black skivvies as much as our long blacks.
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Australia vs Japan
Blog: Where is Rob? - 17 June 2009
On one of my nights in Melbourne we all headed off to the MCG stadium as the Australian and Japanese football teams were in town for the final world cup qualifier of their group. I had never seen international football before so was looking forward to seeing some, even though it was just Australia and Japan hardly football heavy weights.At this point I had spent more time in Japan than I had in [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
