If you have ever been to Australia before, you would probably agree that Melbourne is one of the best places to visit in the entire country. The city is always alive with activity and the people there are energetic and enthusiastic about everything. You can find something that interests you with ease, so you never have to worry about being bored. You can bring your kids along with you for the trip and you can keep them occupied all day, every day for the entire trip and you will never run out of things to do.
It doesn't help to tell you that there are plenty things to do there, without actually giving you some physical examples, so here are some of the exciting things available between now and the end of the year. It is already quite late in the year at the moment, and the whole southern hemisphere is getting ready for the long hot summer. Before they do though, they still have to get through the spring. Fortunately, that is nowhere near as tough as it sounds because spring is the time for big events and festivals that are suitable for people of all ages.
Your kids can enjoy the Lantern festival where they can enjoy a flurry of lanterns to light the way and they can even catch one or two Chinese dragons that are on display for your enjoyment. You can take your kids on puffing Billy, and ride on the only working steam train in the whole of Australia. The train itself heads out toward the Dandenong range, where it goes past an old mining town that still has some of the original buildings. They have restored some of the houses and turned them into lifelike displays of the old prospectors to give you an idea of how life was back in the day.
If you are leaving the kids back home or it is just you and your partner travelling together, you can enjoy a romantic dinner for two at Docklands, where the entire areas has been refurbished and upgraded to get rid of the riffraff that used to terrorise the place. You can walk on the promenade, enjoying the fresh sea air and the beautiful ocean view. Before you hop on the plane to get there though, you will need to have a room booked somewhere like hotelurban.com.au/Melbourne where you can stay in a fully serviced apartment and have easy access to all the places you want to go, by simply hopping on one of the trains or buses to get you to where you need to be.
Martin Wynn
