A long weekend in Melbourne

Laneways

Degraves Street

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Centre Place

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National Gallery of Victoria


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City Scenes


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Shopping


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Nice one. In my three days in Melbourne I did:

Laneways (as above)
National Gallery of Victoria
Eureka Tower skydeck
Bars at Federation Square
Shopping at Melbourne Central
Eat at Chinatown

Any particular cafe in Degraves you like?

@Miliux - Nice one - I was also there for 3 nights from Thurs and just got back this arvo.

I was amazed at the queues each day for H&M - always looped around the whole length of GPO - crazy!

Loved Emporium - great design and layout and enjoyed Muji. Also some great food in the mall - had excellent Vietnamese at Pho Nam.

Chapel St was really dead (Sat arvo) but city centre heaved.

Our best meal was at Pabu on Smith St, Collingwood.

Wow, that street level activity is extremely impressive. Reminds me allot of London in that shot. Also that museum, not sure if I liked it, not a fan of that carpet?

Burden said:

Wow, that street level activity is extremely impressive. Reminds me allot of London in that shot. Also that museum, not sure if I liked it, not a fan of that carpet?

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That was actually the queue to get into H&M!

Don't have a problem with carpet at NGV - it is a great purpose built art gallery that serves it's purpose very well. Overall it is more appealing than our AGNSW - IMO it suffers from a lack of vision and subsequent ad hoc additions that have lessened the appeal of the original building. Whether the planned $400 million expansion and upgrade can rectify this remains to be seen.

Sky_Is_The_Limit said:

That was actually the queue to get into H&M!

Don't have a problem with carpet at NGV - it is a great purpose built art gallery that serves it's purpose very well. Overall it is more appealing than our AGNSW - IMO it suffers from a lack of vision and subsequent ad hoc additions that have lessened the appeal of the original building. Whether the planned $400 million expansion and upgrade can rectify this remains to be seen.

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Offtopic - but I'd like to see AGNSW do something similar to the ROM in Ontario -- demolish all but the original building, and then construct a seamless extension on the rear that contrasts the original. Something like this could work well at AGNSW...