Melbourne – Part 1
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
By the South bank of the river Yarra, Melbourne
It’s strange when a city you’ve never been to before reminds you so much of a place back home. It’s even stranger when you assume, before arriving in that city, that it will be just like somewhere back home, and that ends up being the case. Melbourne and Manchester are, it seems, closer than you’d think. Although you’d never hope to get a picture this nice standing over the Manchester Canal or Salford Quays, Melbourne is as vibrant, artistic and eclectic as England’s ‘capitol of the North’. Even stranger(er) is the amount of Northern placenames Melbourne borrows for it’s suburbs – you’d never guess where I am just looking at this picture alone:
That’s right – I’m in Southport. In fact, there is a suburb named Southport round these parts too. Excellen-tay. But this picture wasn’t taken in Southport, or indeed Preston. Moving on… [read on]
J