Tag: Australia
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 […]
First Weekend Back in Melbourne
Posted: August 23rd, 2010 by Courtney
We spent the first week back in Melbourne readjusting to the winter cold and time change. So when the weekend came around we were ready to have some fun. We started the weekend with some good yum cha (or what we would call dim sum) in Chinatown. After dim sum, we walked over to Federation […]