Melbourne – Part 3
Time flies when you’re having fun. It’s always the way. It’s nearly the end of March already, and I’ve been in lovely Melbourne so long now it feels like home. I’ve been working and trying to save up for New Zealand, although I’m finding it difficult to reign in what can be an expensive social life. Melbourne’s summer is coming to an end, but there are so many little festivals and and events held in and around the city that’s it’s hard to pause for breath.
In St. kilda alone there is a night market every Thursday throughout the summer which incorporates beaches-of-Thailand-style fire throwers, accompanied by tribal drummers – everybody sits on the surrounding grass whilst sipping on on few bevvies as the sun sets over the beach.
Mari has now left (again), this time to investigate the East Coast of Oz and sample what New Zealand has to offer. That didn’t stop a large group of people from Bev and Micks taking to the town, getting merry and facing the music –
The Moomba Festival took place on the waterside of the Yarra and featured performing waterskiers, a plethora of fairground attractions and a fireworks show finale which equaled any big-city New Years Eve celebrations:
The Crown Casino – in anticipation of the 2007 Melbourne Grand Prix, staged only 15 mins walk away from our hostel, and which was soooo loud we could hear it from the hostel itself – had an Ferrari exhibition featuring the iconic car in its various forms throught the decades. I didn’t go to the Grand Prix – it was too expensive, I had too little money and I was working that weekend anyway. Instead, I here pretend to be the proud owner of a classic 1990’s model Ferrari…
Also, I finally made it to Preston…
…well, okay – Melbourne’s very own Preston…
(NB: If anybody back home thinks there’s nothing to see/do in the ‘real’ Preston, you should try living here…!)
And of course there was good ol’ St. Patrick’s Day to look forward to…
…and if I could remember more about it, I’d surely tell ye!
Recently I took a walk on a nice sunny day around Melbourne’s Docklands area:
The area has been vastly redeveloped in the last 15 years, resulting in a number of vibrant buildings and architectual structures and art pieces –
All in all I’m well, happy and wishing I could live here forever right now. New Zealand still beckons in May, and I hope to be back in the UK around the end of July after squeezing in Fiji, the Cook Islands and a small slice of the USA on the way home.
(…there’s that girl again… keeps sneaking into my pictures…she’s gorgeous though, eh? 😉 – her name’s Hayley for those not in the know!)
More further down the line!
J.
Tags: Australia, Random Stuff, Travel
J
Great to see you back Joe! You’re making Australia sound increasingly appealing to me. I ripped an advertisement out of a magazine for the Cook Islands over the weekend – the water was this amazing blue – quite the inspiration to get there and see it first hand.
Thanks for adding a link to my Blog. I reactivated the one back to you, so hopefully you’ll have some new readers soon!
You just keep on earning yourself those brownie points, don’t you…?xX