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Fragments of the Titanic
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 27 August 2010
This week's guest blogger is fantasy novelist Narrelle M Harris, author of the acclaimed vampire novel The Opposite of Life. I’ve always had a penchant for the personal when it comes to history.
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Introducing... The Warburton Quarter
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 16 July 2010
I've been back from Poland for two weeks, the jetlag has mostly gone, and I'm getting used to the icy winter we're having this year in Melbourne. Winter aside, what I'm enjoying most is the coffee. Beautiful, delicious, flavoursome espresso coffee, mmmmmm.
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Tim Burton, The Exhibition
Blog: Oh, the places you'll go! - 27 June 2010
Although this is a blog devoted to travelling with children, this post begins with a disclaimer: Tim Burton, The Exhibition may not be suitable for your small children. Even our Natasha, who has a dark sense of humour for a four-year-old and often plays games involving monsters, witches and red-back spiders, declared the Tim Burton, [...]
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The Great Ocean Road to Adelaide
Blog: Wanderlust - 19 May 2010
The 12 Apostles on the Great Ocean Road Surprise surprise, I’m posting less than a week since my previous post. I’ve spent more time at McDonald’s in the past three days than my entire life. More on that later. I left Melbourne a day earlier than I had planned when the two French guys I [...]
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Cafes of Melbourne 4: Southern Exposure
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 23 April 2010
Here's the final part of the online Melbourne cafe guide I wrote a few years ago, which I've reproduced here with a few tweaks and updates. This week, I head south to inspect the cafes between Melbourne's city centre and Port Phillip Bay...
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Cafes of Melbourne 3: East by Southeast
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 20 April 2010
Here's part three of the Melbourne cafe guide I wrote a few years ago. It's since been removed from the website it was written for, but I've reproduced and updated it here for your coffee-drinking needs. This week, I visit cafes of the inner east and southeast...
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Melboune…waiting waiting…
Blog: arnika round the world - 14 April 2010
After all of 2.5 hours of sleeping it was time to get up and get moving, drove in the dark already exhausted. After farewelling mum (not many friends see you off at that time of the morning), I jumped on the short haul flight across the tasmen on some budget airline codesharing with about 4 [...]
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Having a Laugh? Melbourne International Comedy Festival Venues Reviewed
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 2 April 2010
Every year in March-April, central Melbourne falls under the mirthful influence of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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Phillip Island
Blog: Oh, the places you'll go! - 1 April 2010
Roo and I visited Phillip Island during our first winter together nearly 20 years ago. We returned when Tash was 18 months old, braving the cold to see penguins and koalas, neither of which impressed Tash nearly as much as the magpies. And the rocks. Last weekend we went back, this time with another family [...]
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Roadtrip: The Great Ocean Road
Blog: Snaps and Flip Flops - 29 March 2010
Left Melbourne at 9 AM, returned at 2 AM. Hundreds of kilometers traveled with plenty of stops along the way. I can see why this is one, if not the most, popular drive in Australia.Surfer at Bell's Beach
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Melbourne Historical App: A Day on the Rails
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 26 March 2010
On Australia Day, Tuesday 26 January 2010, the rest of Australia had a day off. I worked, catching trains all over Melbourne's suburban rail network in order to take photos to accompany the text in my iPhone app, Melbourne Historical.
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Cafes of Melbourne 2: Northern Lights
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 18 March 2010
Coffee = Melbourne = coffee, OK? Here's the second instalment of the Melbourne cafe guide I wrote a few years ago. It's since vanished from the website it was written for, but is still of caffeinista interest. This week, I visit cafes of the inner north...
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Daily Travel Photo – Victoria, Australia
Blog: Everything Everywhere - 10 March 2010
Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog. Follow me as I travel around the world. [...]
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Cracking Up On the Coast from Victoria to NSW
Blog: Away Together - 6 March 2010
“Oh no,” Morgan said in a voice suppressing deep, demented giggles. We had just checked into a “deluxe cabin” at the Anchor Belle Caravan Park on Phillip Island and were thumbing through visitors’ brochures. “It says here that Phillip Island has so much to offer, it’s worth a whole day!” He unleashed his manic laughter.
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The Phillip Island Penguin Charade
Blog: Away Together - 3 March 2010
I told my family we should drive to the bottom of Australia and spend several days on Phillip Island mainly because of its star attraction: the Penguin Parade.
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Finding the Best and Worst in Daylesford
Blog: Away Together - 26 February 2010
Daylesford is a charming little community about an hour and a half north of Melbourne. Set around a lake and ringed by forests, it’s an oasis in the countryside where miles of grassland and gum trees all start to look the same and the country roads seem to go on forever.
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Cafes of Melbourne 1: Caffeine and the City
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 11 February 2010
A few years ago I wrote a set of Melbourne cafe reviews for an online city directory, but cannily retained the copyright. The reviews seem to have vanished from that site now, but most of the fine cafes I covered are still doing a roaring trade.
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Melbourne Sign Language
Blog: Desperately Seeking Root Beer - 8 February 2010
When I go to a new city, I always take time to examine signs. There are interesting and sometimes funny differences in the way cities use signs, and Melbourne certainly kept me entertained.In most places around the world that I've paid attention to such things, pedestrians are shown on signs as gender-neutral walking figures (although in Berlin you sometimes get the guy with the jaunty hat). In Melbourne you get the full walking man on street lights, but you just get legs on signs:
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How to piss off an entire hotel full of people at 6:45 a.m.
Blog: Desperately Seeking Root Beer - 5 February 2010
Anyone who stays in hotels enough will eventually have the fire alarm experience: loud sirens, generally in the dead of night, confusion, fumbling with clothes, standing for ages on the street having forgotten some key item of clothing, the arrival of the fire department, and it's inevitably a false alarm. Someone was sneaking a smoke in room 215. Broken sprinkler from a thrown shoe in 422. Power cut out on the 5th floor.
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Screen to Stage: A Cinema Odyssey
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 4 February 2010
I've been working on a little undertaking lately that I'm referring to as Project X (more later!). Last week it required me to take photos of some of Melbourne's grandest old theatres. As I looked up their history I discovered an interesting thing - nearly all of them used to be cinemas.
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The Readers Strike Back
Blog: Aerohaveno: A Travel Blog - 15 January 2010
This week I'm featuring responses from Aerohaveno's followers to two recent competitions - one about travel disasters, the other about travel to movie locations.
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Entering an Aussie Craft Beer Void
Blog: thebeergeek.com - 29 December 2009
It was time to leave Melbourne for our trek up the Princes Highway back to Sydney. The Princes Highway winds its way along the coast and we were taking five days to traverse its length. While we had a brewery visit on Day 1 and Day 5 of this drive, there was nothing in between. [...]
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Victoria High Country Brewery Trail – Part II
Blog: thebeergeek.com - 20 December 2009
After a good nights rest, we were back on the Brewery Trail the next morning. Our plan was to visit the two northernmost breweries on trail before coming back to Beechworth for a hike. But before we sampled some beer, we had the one more piece of Hume Highway kitsch to see, the giant Ned Kelly [...]
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Victoria High Country Brewery Trail – Part I
Blog: thebeergeek.com - 18 December 2009
We left ‘bustling’ Canberra early Sunday morning for what I thought was going to be a three to three and a half hour drive to the Victoria High Country, the northeastern part of the Australian state. We were headed to the self-proclaimed “premier craft brewing region in Australia” and their seven stop Brewery Trail. The [...]
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Welcome to the Wheeler Centre
Blog: Hackpacker - 26 November 2009
A little while ago I wrote about being inside the mouthful that is the Centre for Books Writing & Ideas.
