Apartment Alkira – Boutique Melbourne Short Stay Accommodation

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 [...]

  If you feel up to a gamble, but the Casino’s not quite your thing, saunter off to the inner city suburb of Carlton and try your luck at one of Australia’s oldest fringe theatre venues – La Mama.  Set up in 1967, La Mama has been gracious hostess to an enormous number of new  Australian [...]

Now seriously, I challenge you to find a better value way to spend $3.10 than the all day Sunday travel card. Sen-sat-ion-al value!  If you’re at a loose end and can drag yourself away from the comfort of your Melbourne CBD accommodation, you can hop from moving vehicle to moving vehicle all day long and [...]

If you find yourself anywhere along the banks of the Yarra at night – keep walking. Not because of Melbourne’s oft overplayed ‘scary streak’, but because if you continue in an Easterly direction you’ll find yourself in the land of whimsy. – The oversized Ferris Wheel spins around most mild evenings with its coloured lights [...]

This great little outlet in the Melbourne Town Hall sells cheap tickets to the city’s current entertainment – shows, theatre, music- at half full price plus booking fee. It’s a great deal. The line up’s only available on the day of sale, so it’s a bit of a lucky-dip, but if your accommodation is in [...]