Melbourne

I absolutely love Melbourne! I spent 5 nights with Eimear in her gorgeous apartment and it was like we have never been apart! She had activities planned for every day and the sun was splitting the stones for my entire visit!

Eimear lives in Toorak, a lovely suburb of Melbourne with a string of boutiques, shops and cafes right outside her door. It’s a really lovely place to live.

Day 1:

We walked from Eimear’s place to Chapel Street, and had some lunch in Prahan Market, a gorgeous market with the most delicious food and cakes. Melbourne has some of the best cakes I have seen and there are coffee shops literally everywhere!

From here we strolled along Chapel Street, window shopping. We stopped along the way for a coffee of course, and spent many hours catching up before taking the scenic route to our next destination!

Milk the Cow!

We spent hours tasting cheese and wine, so we were really in our element here!

We continued the evening in an Irish Bar would you believe, called ‘The Fifth’. It was the closest I have felt to home since leaving for travelling, and the first time I heard Christmas music this year!

Day 2:

It was a perk to be able to cook my own breakfast this morning!

Fully fuelled, we headed off to visit some local beaches, starting with Brighton beach.

From here we went to Jimmy O Neill’s to have a turkey and ham dinner to mark the Christmas together. We both agreed that Mary Fleming would have been satisfied with the portion sizes here!

Full to the brim, we strolled along St Kilda’s beach then and perched ourselves up in ‘Republica’ for sunset. After that feed, this was all we were able to manage for the rest of the day!

We headed for home then and when we got back to the apartment, this was the view from the balcony!

Day 3:

Day 3 started with a walk to ‘Lune’ to get some croissants.

From here we went to ‘The Botanic Gardens’ for a walk around.

Obviously we had to reward ourselves with a drink after our strenuous efforts! So we headed into the city, to Southbank and perched ourselves up in ‘Arbory Afloat’ for a cocktail. As you can see, it was a real chore being in Melbourne!

That evening, we ordered pizza from ‘Small Print’, which was delivered to us in Victoria Gardens park across the road. We brought some beers and the restaurant gave us a blanket. We were once again in our element soaking up what was left of the sun as we waited for two very delicious pizza’s!

Day 4:

A city day. We started off with the South Melbourne Markets where we got the best cookies of all time. In our excitement, we didn’t take a picture, but I did get some snaps of the market itself.

From here, Eimear and her housemate Steph, took me around to see the Street art in Melbourne before stopping on Degrave Street, a quaint alley packed with cafe’s and restaurants.

We decided on an Italian, washed down by a glass of wine obviously!

We finished out the day at ‘The Breslin’ on Southbank, where I got my new favourite cockatil of all time – Lemon Meringue.

My time in Melbourne was quickly coming to an end. However, Eimear insisted my visit would be incomplete without a visit to ‘Yo-Chi’. We stuffed our faces with some frozen yogurt, packed with as many toppings as could fit in the tubs (at least that what I did!)