Our Trip to Melbourne

It is a funny thing how things happen to end going to a place even though you weren't even comtemplating going there in the first place.  While my husband and I were on a bus to go to a celebration at a place called  "Currawong"  there was a lady sitting in front of us, she asked if were going to it, we were, her name is Marie.  She started to talk to us and amasingly she had been in the same group very similar to my husband had been in (she lived in Melbourne and he lived Sydney in the 50's), she named some people and he knew some of them, she then invitied us to go to visit her in Melbourne, lovely lady.  We had a great celebration even though it rained quite a lot, she stayed the night there.

So when we got home we decided to go to Melbourne for 4 days.  We stayed in a great hotel the "Intercontinental", it has the old and new building designed together like the one in Sydney. 

We went down to Melbourne by train "CityLink" overnight.  I would not recommend it to anyone as it was so noisy and also scary with rocking very quite a bit, we arrived in Melbourne about 7-35am, we went straight to the hotel and we were in  luck no one was previously staying in our booked room so we were able to go there straight away, it was really good to relax and shower and the off we went for the day, we decided to go to  Frankston on the train.  We had to look for a chemist as my husband had blisters from new boots, and yes he did wear them before going there, but sometimes it take a bit longer to wear them in, anyway we got to have a good look there, I wanted to see the water so off we went looking for somewhere to eat on the beach, there was a resturant called "Waves" the only eating place there.  The lunch was really good I would recommended to anyone and also view of "Port Phillip Bay".  Outside the Hotel there were statues of a family, looks like they are happy to see their father and husband.

  

 Frankston & Waves Resturant

Melbourne Street Mosaics

While we were there we decided to see "Tutankhamun", what a great exhibition, we took ages to see the lot, my husband just loves ancient history so he was in his element.



 We also went and saw the "Vienna Art Design", I wasn't that impressed with although I learnt something about a group of artist in Vienna  around early 1900's.  A little over 100 years ago in Vienna, Austria, a group of radical young creators and thinkers overturned all the rules and created a brave new world. Vienna: Art & Design explores this extraordinary period.

Below Melbourne Museum



We then went and stayed with Marie (Currawong lady) and her husband for the weekend, they took us about and 1hours drive to place called "Camp Eureka" which has being going since the 1950's.  It is near the Dandenongs lovely bush land, the wild flowers just coming out.

Great Idea

Bush Huts where you sleep

The weekend was a great success by all.



Enjoy your day
Dizee