Melbourne Travel Blog

  A great way to get to know some Melburnians is to share a meal with them. EAT WITH ME is a website that allows people in your area to organise and attend events that share meals together. No more eating alone when travelling! More information can be found at www.eatwithme.net  

This week “Love Never Dies” opened in Melbourne, the eagerly awaited follow up to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom of the Opera”. It will play at the historic Regent Theatre for a limited season. More information can be found at http://www.LoveNeverDies.com.au

For three days this expo showcases the best produce, wine and beer Melbourne has to offer. There are also presentations by celebrity and/or highly respected chefs. Don’t forget all the food tastings! For more information see http://www.goodfoodshow.com.au  

Mountain Goat Brewery is open to the public on Wednesday and Friday nights. It offers all their beers on taps as well as pizzas, music and guided tours of what used to be a tan factory. A quintessential Melbourne experience, minutes from the CBD. More information can be found at http://goatbeer.com.au/  

While thousands flock to Phillip Island everyday to see the penguins, many locals don’t even know that a colony of penguins live near St Kilda. Unknown to the public until 1993, an environmentalist established  Penguin Water Cruises which has sole permission to visit them. Tours depart every...

Mountain Goat Beers In celebration of Australia and abroad’s best craft beer, Good Beer Week will showcase a variety of beer related events at venues all through Melbourne. This is a great chance to sample some quality brews and meet the people who make them. The event goes from May 16th-21st....

Melbourne’s newest district, the Docklands, often gets a bad rap. Some say it is too sterile, while others say there simply isn’t any life in the area. While this might have been the case a few years ago, in recent time the Docklands have sprouted many new dining, accommodation and event...

For first time visitors to Melbourne, going to see a game of Australian Rules Football is an absolute must. There is no more quintessential Melbourne experience than walking with thousands of others to the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), buying a pie with tomato sauce and seeing one of the most exciting...

Melburnians are crazy about their chicken parmas…and I mean crazy. Just about every pub in town has its own interpretation and often rightly or wrongly a venue is judged by this dish alone. That’s where the folk at www.parmadaze.com come in. They travel around town writing detailed reviews,...

The Melbourne Comedy Festival is considered one of the best of its kind in the world (up there with Edinburgh and Montreal). In April hundreds of venues are taken over all across the city as professional and not so professional performers and comedians do their best to make us laugh. The Festival website...