Tag: Melbourne
Move to the Beach
Posted: October 24th, 2010 by Courtney
It has now been a couple of weeks since we moved from our apartment in the City to Elwood, a beachside suburb on Port Phillip Bay. Â Elwood is about a 40-minute tram ride to the CBD and is right next to all of the action in St. Kilda, Melbourne’s most famous beachside suburb. Over the […]
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 […]
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 […]