Category: Melbourne
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Melbourne with Helen and Sue
On Halloween our dear friends from New Zealand, Helen and Sue, arrived. We met them many years ago in Bermuda and have remained friends despite now living halfway around the world from each other. They are the kind of friends that no matter how much time passes between seeing each other we always pick up […]
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Wandering Melbourne
We have been here for 11 days and decide to run a different direction this morning heading for Fitzroy Gardens which is east of us. The run starts out with three long blocks of uphill running. Fitzroy Gardens consists of 68 acres and are one of the major Victorian era landscaped gardens in Australia and […]
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Around Melbourne and The Great Ocean Road
This post is mostly about The Great Ocean Road but first a two day wander of Carlton Gardens and Fitzroy with Bill & Katiti. Carlton Gardens is a three block walk of long blocks east. Like NYC Melbourne has long blocks going east to west and short blocks north to south. Carlton Gardens is a […]
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Tasmania
Sunday, 20 October we are in an Uber on the way to Melbourne Airport before 5am when Jim sees a text from Jet Star saying that our 6:10am flight has been delayed until 8:10. Instead of turning around and going home for the wait we proceed on to the airport. We had deliberately planned this […]
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Melbourne Australia
We arrive Melbourne on 15 October 2019 at 8:30am having completely missed the 14th. It is springtime here with temperatures in the 50’s and 60’s and misty rain. Our Airbnb is atypical for us as we have booked accommodations in a high-rise on the 23rd floor with floor to ceiling windows overlooking the magnificent […]
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From Newport RI to Newport Beach CA
We left Newport RI October 10 and spent the night in Boston. Morning of October 11 at 5:30am we were heading back to Logan International Airport in an Uber for a flight to LAX. We had booked an Airbnb for two nights in Corona Del Mar which is a seaside neighborhood in Newport Beach. We […]