When friends visit from interstate, where’s your favourite places to take them sightseeing around the city?
Share around your ideas – then none of us will be stuck for interesting ideas when friends come to stay in town!
Thanks to @rorybaust for today’s suggestion.
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Depends on the weather – I like to have a contingency plan in case it rains
St Kilda beach & pier
The Edge / Skydeck @ Eureka Tower
Great Ocean Rd
The Aquarium
NGV
Victoria Markets
The Supper Club
Eureka Skydeck/Edge, Queen Victoria markets and Skyhigh mount dandenong for sight seeing :)
In Melb: State Library, lane ways, NGV, zoo, St Kilda
Near Melb: Mt Dandnong, markets, Sorrento for the back beach/front beach combo
As we always have kids in tow:
*Fed Square is our favourite meeting place – ACMI Lounge is kid friendly or get an outdoor pizza, there’s ACMI, the Ian Potter gallery (my kids were fascinated by the great collection of Australian paintings) and the fantastic Birrarung Marr playground. If it’s a Sunday we park at Fitzroy Gardens and walk down past the MCG and over the sound bridge. Might have a walk along the Yarra in either direction.
*Observatory Cafe and the children’s garden or the Botty Gardens
*State Library
*Art gallery – love to lie on the floor and look up at the rose ceiling
*St Andrews market (since that’s where we live but worth a day-trip)
*Heide – excellent cafe and environs – you can get a lunchbox from the cafe to eat in the wonderful gardens. The museum is fascinating but can be a little hard to manage for the elderly and with young, rambunctious kids – once when we went there was a labyrinth made out of textured fake fur and a huge tree made of plastic toys with a very inviting illuminated cubby hole, but the kids weren’t allowed to touch anything, which just about broke my children’s brains. Not that I’m complaining – it’s art innit? – but it was fairly fraught. Still, it’s a fantastic day out even if you don’t go inside.
*I haven’t been since I was a kid visiting Melbourne myself, but I remember loving Ripponlea.
To the Footscray Community Arts Centre of course! :)
Something sport – AFL, Cricket, A-League
The Dandenongs (not Dandenong!)
Torquay is brilliant
Sorrento & Portsea
Southbank (Pubs, restaurant, etc)
Skydeck seems to be a fave
Chapel Street if they’re into that type of thing
Pubs
Dandenong mountains
St Kilda beach, the Espy, bathrooms on the 35th floor of Sofitel for great free panoramic views. Apart from that – depends on how much time they’ve got, what they’re into and the weather.
HA!!! RUMI FOR DINNER. NO CONTEST THERE.
Bohemia Cabaret Club, South Melbourne.
The venue is gorgeous, like stepping back into the 1920s, and the performances are all burlesque, cabaret, circus, and comedy.
There’s a different show every night, 5 nights a week I think. Some are dark and gothic, others are fun or sexy.
Here is their website: http://www.bohemiacabaretclub.com/
Oh, they do dinner and fancy cocktails there too, and show tickets are surprisingly really affordable!