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Melbourne's laneways and coffee culture, the Great Ocean Road's Twelve Apostles, and the Yarra Valley's wine country.
Melbourne's laneways and coffee culture, the Great Ocean Road's Twelve Apostles, and the Yarra Valley's wine country. We're writing the full guide now — in the meantime, the related guides below cover the same trip from a nearby angle.
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Melbourne's real day and overnight trips, with real distances — the Great Ocean Road, the Yarra Valley, Phillip Island's Penguin Parade, the Mornington Peninsula and the Dandenong Ranges' Puffing Billy railway.
Queen Victoria Market, the Italian, Greek and Vietnamese immigration waves that shaped the city's food, Brunswick's Sydney Road, laneway dining and the modern-Australian, native-ingredients movement — Melbourne's food scene, properly covered.
Gariwerd's sandstone ranges west of Melbourne — genuine, documented Aboriginal rock art, The Pinnacle and Mackenzie Falls, kangaroos that graze the Halls Gap oval like it's their own backyard, and one of the country's great wildflower seasons.
Melbourne, Victoria's laneway-and-coffee capital — street art, a genuine sports obsession, the Yarra River, changeable weather, and the trams that hold the whole city together.
A day-by-day Melbourne plan — Day 1 in the CBD's laneways and Federation Square, Day 2 in St Kilda and the inner suburbs, and an optional Day 3 day trip — built from the rest of this guide's spokes.
The CBD and Southbank, Fitzroy and Collingwood, St Kilda, South Yarra and Prahran, and Brunswick — Melbourne's distinct inner suburbs, what each one is actually like, and who it suits.
Melbourne with kids — Melbourne Zoo's hands-on spaces, Scienceworks and the Melbourne Planetarium, Melbourne Museum's Dinosaur Walk, the tram network treated as a genuine activity, family-friendly laneway food, and Phillip Island's Penguin Parade as a full day trip.
Hosier Lane's street art, Degraves Street and Centre Place's café tables, the 1994 licensing change that built the laneway bar scene, and why Melbourne's coffee culture runs as deep as the city claims it does.
Two coastlines in one peninsula — calm bay beaches and wilder ocean surf, a cool-climate wine region, natural hot springs, a lookout gondola and a historic car ferry on to the Great Ocean Road.