Tag: australia

Dolce Vita: Cake Decadence at Brunetti Oro, Melbourne
On our short visit to Melbourne, Australia, my (Chris) relative CL kindly led us on a walking tour through the central business district and along the Yarra river. We paused for a break at this famous Italian coffee and-cake spot on Flinders Lane, one of the city’s key “eat streets”, with a high concentration of

Exploring the State Library of Victoria: A Melbourne Institute
This is the second of a series of 4 posts on public libraries, three of the libraries are situated in Europe and this one is in Australia. Like some music to accompany you ? During our 10-day stay in Melbourne, we often found ourselves drawn to the State Library of Victoria, just a short two-block

Looking back at our trips in 2023, Part 1
Happy New Year ! It is a tradition on this blog to take a look back at some of the places we visited in the previous year. Let’s kick off with some tunes by Australian artists (4 songs) and see where we went in 2023. Click ▶ to play Because of our move to a


