Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
I reckon our family is at a point where it’s not easy to find appropriate accommodation when we’re visiting urbanized cities for vacations. Basically, our kids are too young to be in separate rooms from us. For our Melbourne stay,
The 10 days vacation – not 9 on account that we left Singapore on 12 Jun SUN and landed on 21 Jun TUES – was really our family (with Peter)’s fourth vacation in the last 1.5 years. The previous three
Our last day of our stay in Melbourne. Pretty much free and easy for the day, and after four days of rain, the weather was decent and sun out for good parts of the morning too. Our activities were planned
Day 8 in Melbourne saw more round the clock rain throughout, with low mist layers occasionally blanketing the city up till the late morning. We still had a few more items left in the relatively busy itinerary – including going
Yarra Valley Chocolaterie & Ice Creamery was just a couple of minutes drive from the Fergussion Winery & Restaurant, and we stopped here for a short 25 minutes before continuing on. As is fashionable in many Chocolateries these days, the
For our two kids at least, the day they were most looking forward to ever since we talked about the itinerary was the Puffing Billy Train ride, included in our third and last day tour for Day 7. The historic
According to our planned itinerary, Day 6 was to be our Gardens and Museums day where we’d visit the Melbourne Museum, Royal Exhibition Building, Cook’s Cottage, Carlton, Parliament, Treasury and Fitzory Gardens and finally St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Lots of walking
We went with A Tour With a Difference for our Great Ocean Road trip, and here are some comments about them. In mind that Great Ocean Road visit is extremely popular with visitors, we were expecting to see hordes of
After enjoying three days of sunny weather and one of half-half, on the fifth day and second of our day trips out to what visitors to Melbourne routinely note as a ‘must do/visit’, it rained non-stop and the sun was
One of the most important landmarks in the state of Victoria that isn’t just a place for tourists to look and gawk but is actually a working business place is the Queen Victoria Market, reportedly the largest open air market
After four days of wonderfully sunny days, our fifth day in Melbourne finally saw inclement weather. Not quite to the extent the state experienced a week before we arrived, it did mean a somewhat more chilly morning. We returned to
The original itinerary I drew up for Day 3 really had just one item – Melbourne Zoo in the morning, and that’s it. It was a fine day though with a wonderfully blue sky, and the weather wasn’t as chilly
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