Archive for 'Australia'
A Night Out For Scott’s Birthday
Posted: October 7th, 2010 by Courtney
For Scott’s 29th birthday we went to a restaurant called Attica for a fancy night out.  So, I’ll warn you: this blog will mostly be about food. We had been wanting to go to Attica for a while since it has been winning a number awards including most recently the 73rd best restaurant in the world by San […]
The Great Ocean Road
Posted: October 3rd, 2010 by Courtney
Since the weather was sunny and warm we decided to get out of the city and take a trip to the Great Ocean Road with friends, Rachel and Carl.  The Great Ocean Road is one of the most scenic and well-known stretches of coastline in Australia and its just south west of Melbourne. We headed out after work […]
Footy Finals Week
Posted: September 23rd, 2010 by Scott
Melbourne is all about Australian Rules Football or “footy.”   Some 10 teams out of 16 teams in the league are from the Melbourne area. Last weekend was the footy preliminary finals (or semi-finals) at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).  Thats right, they play footy on a cricket ground or “oval.”  So to join in […]