Apartment Alkira – Boutique Melbourne Short Stay Accommodation

No one will believe you’ve been to Melbourne if you go home without caffeine stains on your teeth. Go on, ask anyone. The two things that symbolise Melbourne more effectively than the cheese sticks at the entrance to Tullamarine Freeway, are 1) laneways and 2) cafes. If you’re not sure where to start your caffeine [...]

If you’ve stayed at Apartment Alkira (and if not, why not? hmm?) you’ll know we have a penchant for the odd piece of quirky retro furniture.  We’ve often been asked where we source our treasures from (we usually whisper this part, so shuffle in close).  One of our favourite haunts is the fabulous Chapel St [...]

If you’ve visited Melbourne during April you’ll know it’s important to have a few gloomier weather indoor options on standby.  You might not need them, but as Melbourne’s blue sky days turn on their heels and head north it’s important to have appealing Plan B activities.  Fortunately Melbourne throws on a myriad of festivals at [...]

If you like your comedy to come with a side order of jazz and your cleverly scripted repartee to come with an accompaniment of off-the-wall improv, then the The Horne Section will be the highlight of your 2012 Spiegeltent line up. Cheeky and quirky in equal measures,  Alex and his five-piece band of merry men [...]

The peeps at the Victoria’s ‘virtual’ tourist hub – Visit Victoria – have just released a nifty wee app aimed at giving you an ‘iphone window’ into the soul of our fair city. Winding down the infamous laneways and weaving through hidden rooftop bars and quirky cafes, the app takes you on a whirlwind tour of [...]

    You know it’s time for Melbourne’s best comedians to show their spotty faces when the weather slides from shimmery sunny days into heavy grey skies and the world takes on a decidedly glum hue. That’s when the deities decided we’d most need some cheering up and bestowed upon us the Melbourne Comedy Festival. [...]

We’re always on the look out for great resources to recommend to Melbourne visitors who are keen to find out what’s on during their stay. There’s the usual weather and day-by-day calendar but also a cute ‘Curiously Melbourne’ section which has slightly off-beat and quirky stories about the city of Melbourne. Definitely worth a squizz. [...]

I concede that Persia and Melbourne don’t really have a great deal in common. And that may well be why we’re so fascinated by the other, seemingly more exotic world, of Persia and Beyond, the new exhibition at the State Library of Victoria (SLV). Love and Devotion is a rare and unusual exhibition of more [...]

Weather-wise, March is usually still quite nice in Melbourne, but the odd rainy day can pop up out of nowhere and bite you on the bum. If you’ve analysed every 20th century artist the NGV has on offer and have drunk so many lattes your wee smells faintly of caffeine, then consider the rainy day [...]

If you’re visiting Melbourne over the next few days you may find yourself tripping over an unusually large number of anorexic waif-like beauties. It’s only fair to let you know however, that they are not a fair representation of the city’s population. March in Melbourne sees an influx of pastey faces and high cheek-bones as [...]