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Melbourne City cold windy

Melbourne City cold windy

Melbourne City cold windy 2014

Melbourne City cold windy when I visited in 2014 after driving from Adlelaide via the Great Ocean Road. It was so cold I only spent two days before heading to the Gold Coast.

Queenscliff to Sorrento

Road Trip Port Fairy Phillip Island

After the Great Ocean Road I caught the ferry from Queenscliff to Sorrento on the way to Phillip Island before staying at Dromana & Melbourne. 

Melbourne City cold windy with a beautiful blue sky

Melbourne City cold windy 2014

Looking at this photo it’s hard to believe how cold it was. 🙂 

These two girls must have been cold

Melbourne City cold windy 2014

I guarantee their teeth were chattering. 🙂 

The famous Yarra River

Melbourne City cold windy 2014

The Yarra River or historically, the Yarra Yarra River, is a perennial river in south-central Victoria, Australia. The lower stretches of the Yarra are where Victoria’s state capital Melbourne was established in 1835, and today metropolitan Greater Melbourne dominates and influences the landscape of its lower reaches. Wikipedia

Starbucks

Melbourne City cold windy 2014

Located in Swanston Street Melbourne, I don’t ever miss a day visiting a Starbucks branch somewhere. 🙂

Prince’s Bridge Hotel

Melbourne City cold windy 2014

Young & Jackson’s (Princes Bridge Hotel) is one of Melbourne’s best-known hotels. The hotel has stood beside Melbourne’s busiest crossroads for nearly 140+ years emerging from humble origins to become an icon for the city. Young & Jackson’s is famous for many reasons, not just its landmark status, on the corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets, or its past early openings and riotous 6pm closing when hoards consumed as much as possible prior to the closing bell.

The horse & buggy guy

Melbourne City cold windy 2014

You gotta love that wastecoat. 🙂

Her Magesties Theatre

 Melbourne City cold windy 2014

Her Majesty’s Theatre is a 1,700 seat theatre in Melbourne’s East End Theatre District, Australia. Built in 1886, it is located at 219 Exhibition Street, Melbourne. It is classified by the National Trust of Australia and is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register. Wikipedia

Federation Square 

Melbourne City cold windy 2014

 Located on the corner of Swanston Street and Flinders Street, Federation Square is at the hub of Melbourne’s CBD, arts and sports precinct. With so much to see and do here, it’s no surprise that Federation Square takes up the entire size of a city block-that’s 38,000 square metres to be precise.

Burke & Wills

Melbourne City cold windy 2014

The whole monument, at the corner of Collins and Swanston streets, will be moved to avoid damage during the tunnelling works. More about Burke & Wills HERE.

Inge & Geoff 

Melbourne City cold windy 2014

Had dinner at Lupinos with very nice old friends. Lupinos is rated 4.5 of 5 on Tripadvisor and ranked #21 of 4958 restaurants in Melbourne.

Thanks for visiting my Melbourne City cold windy photo blog.

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Author: David Herd

My history, particularly over the last 30 years is dominated by overseas travel. I sold my home in Australia October 20th 2011 and have have been living in Thailand since then. I don’t know where the time has gone? It seems like you go to sleep one night, wake up the next morning, and 20 years have flashed by. Not sure how many years I have left, however I have enjoyed a wonderful charmed life, and if it all ended today I would leave this world with no regrets. I was born in Sydney halfway through the last century, started my travels in the 60s with the usual U.K. Europe adventure at the age of 20, back to Australia and worked in Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide in Sales & Marketing with multinational companies including Sanyo, Canon & Remington. Engaged to be married 3 times and never quite made it to the alter, finally realized by the mid 90s I was not cut out for "long term relationships" so I moved to the Gold Coast in Queensland in January 1987, worked for a couple of banks as a Financial Planner, I took a year off work in 1998 to travel and never went back to full time work again, after 25 fun filled years on the Coast I packed up and moved to Thailand. What is the purpose of this blog? Well I really want to use it to record my travel experiences & to display my photographs, give and receive travel tips, comment on places I visit, restaurants I eat in and use it to replace the autobiography I intended to write, apart from all that it helps me fill in my day. :) I moved to Thailand mainly because I wanted to keep travelling while my health allowed me to, there are huge advantages being closer to all the places I want to visit. Cost of living in Thailand is around 35% of the cost in Australia, plus flights are 50% cheaper because you are much closer to everywhere. ???? Consequently I am able to travel to many more places compared to living in Australia. Having said all that, it is & has always been my intention to return to Australia when my travelling is finished, I predict this will happen around 2021.

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