Melbourne - Ideal place for a city break.
Lovely riverside location, great weather in November, fabulous coffee and excellent food. Only real downside - it’s a 21,000 mile round trip from the UK.
I got to spend a week there - and it did involve an awful lot of time spent sitting in economy-class seats on very large planes!
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| Bit big these Airbus 380s |
Central Business District
I was staying in the Melbourne CBD near the banks of the Yarra River - an ideal place to stay if you want decent coffee, good restaurants and a splendid choice of skyscrapers.
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| Yarra River Footbridge, decorated ready for Christmas |
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| Federation Square from the top of the Eureka Tower |
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| Evening by the Yarra River |
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| Skyscraper Melbourne |
Monash University
My excuse for a few days in the heat (and it got up to 33C one day - which is rather warmer than I like) was to spend time talking with folks from Monash University. This meant that I got to spend time around the Monash Campuses at Clayton and at Caulfield.
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| Caulfield Campus, Monash University |
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| Clayton Campus, Monash University |
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| Clayton Campus, Monash University |
St Kilda
My one day of escape from work (or the city centre) was to head out to the seaside suburb of St Kilda - partly to see if I could see any similarities with it’s Hebridean namesake (I couldn’t) and partly to see if I could spot a few of the Little Penguins that lurk in the St Kilda Breakwater (I could).
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| Little Penguins in the St Kilda Breakwater |
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| St Kilda boats with the Melbourne skyscrapers behind |
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| St Kilda pier |
And at this time of year there really is no escaping the approaching holiday season - although I gather the odds on a White Christmas in Melbourne are pretty long.
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| Seasons Greetings at Flinders Street Station |
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