We have walked past the entrance of this little laneway many times, but never thought to check it out till I discovered the Presgrave Place Street Art feed on Instagram. To find it, you head to Little Collins Street and turn into Howery Place…you will see the street sign just a short way down on […]
I have had a rough week due to a stomach bug, but unexpectedly, it has all has ended up really well! Started on Friday when we went back to the school to do another talk about organ donation and my husband’s liver transplant story to another approximately 200 boys. I wrote about our first one […]
We found this lane purely by accident…we were walking towards Melbourne Central from the QV Shopping Centre and noticed some graffiti on the wall… So being the curious people we are, we wandered through to see where it would lead and discovered what is now one of my favourite laneways in Melbourne! Drewery Lane runs […]
I love this city, and in the last year or so, I have discovered there is so much hidden away that you don’t see unless you know where to look. And that has led me into wanting to explore…to find what is behind, beneath and above the buildings. As a result of my urban curiosity, […]
Nestled into the Dandenong Ranges in a little town called Sassafras, is a little shop that is packed to the rafters with all things tea. Tea Leaves has over 300 different types of tea, as well as tea pots in every size, colour and shape imaginable. We were there during the holidays, and the shop […]
As seasoned tea drinkers, we always scan the shelves at the supermarket in case something new appears to try, and this is how we came across the Melbourne tea label, the delightful Tea Blossoms. To be exact, we found their Green Tea Strawberry, which quickly became one of my favourite green teas, especially over the […]
This week, we ticked another must do off our list…the Kokoda Track Memorial Walk…and I have to admit that it nearly killed me! This Kokoda track is not the one in Papua New Guinea…it is located in the Dandenong Ranges National Park at Mt Dandenong….about a 45 minutes drive from the city. The track was […]
Today was another first for us…we went to an official cycling event! Held over four stages, the Mitchelton Bay Cycling Classic is now in it’s 27th year! The stages started in Geelong over two days, before heading to Portarlington and then finishes up today in the Melbourne seaside suburb of Williamstown. An event such as […]