From May 3 to 5 2005, we had David’s host sister from Japan Eriko, her husband A-San, and baby Hiroto stay with us. We had good fun showing them around Melbourne. Being a tour guide in your own home town is a great way to appreciate the city in which you live.
Together, we visited Southbank, Victoria Market and spent a great day visiting Puffing Billy and some wineries in the Yarra Valley.
This week, I visited a superbly curated exhibition at the Melbourne Museum. It was a display of artifacts, stories and reproductions from the RMS Titanic that famously sank on her maiden voyage when she hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912. Of the 2,240 passengers and crew on board, more than 1,500 lost their lives […]
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There is something to say about being immersed in art. That’s what happened to us this morning when we visted the Lume in Southbank. The Lume is Australia’s only electronic art gallery. It’s an enormous space where images are projected onto the walls and suspended screens in a wonderful display of action and colour. We […]
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“Just One More Thing” was the phrase that Steve Jobs used at the end of an Apple World Wide Developers Conference to announce somthing important and significant before the end of the event. We finsihed our Tasmanian adventure on Saturday, staying in Geelomg overnight as the ferry was almost teo hours late in arriving. Driving […]
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