My Melbourne - LittleWanderingWren

I have loved living in many places, but for the moment we call Melbourne home!

Somewhere along the journey of life
I morphed from a country lass
growing up in the UK,
into an Aussie city girl.

I imagined that moving to Australia

would involve spacious living with huge gardens.
Wrong!
Well maybe for some people, but not for us…

A typical house in our neighbourhood

Instead I live squashed in,
in prime real estate in the leafy suburbs.
Our area is one of weatherboard houses and cottage gardens.
I’m not complaining.

Melbourne’s reputation as one of the
world’s most liveable city is well deserved.

I love the convenience of city living.

Most things I need are within a ten minute drive

school – kids sports – yoga – writing class

My son’s school sports fields

Somethings are on my doorstep

shops – post office – parks.

A decent coffee
is always just around the corner.
Melbourne’s cafe culture
is part of the fabric of life here.
‘Let’s meet for a coffee’

City trains run every 10-20 minutes

I can walk five minutes to two train stations
and the tram is a ten minute walk.

Trams are part of the fabric of Melbourne’s transport system

If I walk one way out of my front gate I get to a park

If I walk the other way I get to another park
and a bike track into the city.
(there are 670 Km’s of bike tracks in Melbourne)

In fact walk in any direction
and you will generally find a park in Melbourne
with kids playgrounds, sports fields and tennis courts!

Melbourne is renown for it’s parks

We are a twenty minute drive into Melbourne’s CDB

It’s easy if we want a foodie’s night in town.
Melbourne is so multi-cultural you are spoiled for culinary choice.

Or a visit to the theatre,
or perhaps have a laugh at the Melbourne Comedy Festival

or even attend a concert, all the big Pop stars come here.

Grace Min in action at the Aussie Open January 2014

If sports your thing, as it is for us, then it’s non stop action
when it comes to big sporting events.

Melbourne is home of the Australian Open Tennis in January
we can hear the dim roar of the Formula One racing cars
racing around Albert Park
for the Australian Grand Prix in March,
and so the year goes on…

We can support Australia and sometimes England

playing cricket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
The Boxing Day test match is a Melbourne must do.
The MCG can fit a cheering crowd of over 100,000 people

Cheering Australia on at the MCG January 2014

Of course the first thing you need is a footy team to barrack for
We cheer on our favourite AFL Footy Team, Hawthorn.

They don’t call Melbourne the Sporting capital of Australia for nothing!

We’ve got – Rugby – Soccer
Basketball – Swimming – Hockey – Golf etc etc
Or if horse racing takes your fancy,
then the Spring Racing Carnival and Melbourne Cup Festival is a must.