Apartment Alkira – Boutique Melbourne Short Stay Accommodation

One of the best things about the silly season in Melbourne is the Wednesday night late night market at the Queen Victoria Market.  Renowned for quality fresh produce, each Wednesday night the market also offers a fabulously vibey ‘hawker-style market’.  Great music, food and the odd bargain to be had. Not far from Apartment Alkira [...]

Mirka Heide Museum of Modern Art 7 Templestowe Road Bulleen ‘I can’t say I am courageous, but I think courageously’ Mirka Mirka needs no surname.  Not in Melbourne anyway.  She’s quite the icon, personifying everything we’d rather like to think we were – liberal, artistic, sensuous,  bohemian, creative, independent, edgy and just a little riskee. [...]

If you’re visiting Melbourne and anxious that you won’t be able to track down your favorite magazines, then put your stress ball down. From the obscure “Government News”, “The Gentlewoman”, or “XLR8R” to the groovy “Wallpaper” or “Monocle”, the magazine emporium, Mag Nation, caters for all fetishes.  The CBD’s Elizabeth Street store is just around [...]

There is nothing quite like that virutous, self satisfied feeling you get when you’ve got a good looking basket hanging off your arm.  Chockers with all things wholesome, dripping with vitamin A, swarming with antioxidants and overwhelmed by micronutients, your health invariably improves by mere proximity.  And the monthly Melbourne Farmers’ Market ensures you can still get your [...]

…and now you can.  The recently launched Melbourne Bike Share scheme has these spunky cobalt blue two wheelers dotted all over the CBD, just waiting for your bottom – plump or boney – to nestle itself on the amply comfy seat. Over the next few months, the roll-out plan will see 600 bikes available across [...]

Melbourne is a city of many things. Coffee. Excellent Food. Prized Grafitti. Sport (yawn). Trams. The ‘Yellow Peril’ (don’t ask, it’s a long story). Shopping. Daggy cruises down the Yarra. Arty precincts. Laneways. And Laughs. Well at least in April. For almost the whole month, very funny people from far and wide (and some from [...]

Gluttony.  Yes, most of the time I feel bad about it.   Not, however, during one fortnight in March, when the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival consumes the city and insists upon its wholehearted worship. A little-known fact about the festival is that food and wine consumed during it’s fortnight reign has absolutely no calorific [...]

A terrific resource for any visitor to Melbourne – be it for a “short-stay” or “long”, www.threethousand.com is a fab website profiling off-beat and slightly obscure Melbourne happenings. They don’t do advertorials so you can be sure what’s recommended hasn’t been tainted by the lure of advertising pennies. For a good guide to what’s on [...]

A five minute meander from Apartment Alkira, along the banks of the Yarra and over to the other side brings you to an odd space that is the Victorian Arts Centre’s “Blackbox”. This dark cavernous space seems to have multiple personalities – theatre venue for the odd fledgling production, cabaret venue from time to time, [...]

A summer-time only pursuit.  Kick back under a velvety back sky atop  Melbourne’s iconic “Curtin House” and watch that movie you’ve always meant to catch.  The eclectic program offers something old, something new, something borrowed and sometimes something blue.  Comfy deck chair seating and food and drinks available.  Viewing Melbourne’s urban landscape from pidgeon position is offered at [...]