Apartment Alkira – Boutique Melbourne Short Stay Accommodation

The golden (haired) boy stops by Melbourne for a short stay on his world tour.  See what jewels and collectables the rich and famous of the 1300s BC couldn’t bare to be parted from. No need to rush though, he’s on show from now until November in suitably palatial accommodation at Melbourne Museum. More Info [...]

So, you have a vague fascination with classical music, but you’re worried you’ll need a mortgage extension, a penguin outfit and/or a taffeta frock to front up to a performance?  Well think again.  For the next two weeks all you need is a picnic, a rug, a BBQ chicken and some plastic champagne glasses. For [...]

Now before you start yawning at the title of this post alone, this is no static display of dodgy maps and line drawings of men in wigs.  The Polly Woodside is a 125 year floating merchant ship which forms the central focus of the museum, with associated info and documentation around different areas of the [...]

A fabulous Melbourne institution, The Butterfly Club is one of the quirkiest and most highly original performance venues in the city. Think clutter.  And lots of it.  Three teensy rooms or ‘salons’ are bedecked with every kitch item from a battery farm of 1960′s nanna’s homes.  Porcelain dolls rub shoulders with plastic tack-a-rama, mirrors with [...]

We love this fabulous urban artsy/cultural venue in the centre of Melbourne’s gorgeous city. There’s always something thought-provoking on the walls or treading the boards. Part gallery, part performance space, Fortyfive Downstairs is a cultural hub providing not-for-profit  support to the city’s emerging artists. The 19th century brick building at the top end of ‘alternative’ [...]

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. [...]

Craft once belonged to Nanna.  Crocheted paddington bears, twee little doileys, patchwork quilts that induced epileptic fits at a fifty paces. Well move over Nanna, cos Craft’s just got sexy.  And the best place to check it out is not too far from Melbourne Short Stay Apartment Alkira, on Flinders Lane.  Flinders Lane is part [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]