Melbourne pictures. One of the largest cities in Australia (population 4 million) with great architecture, friendly locals and a beautiful setting (with a seaside, rivers, parks and leafy avenues).
Brighton Beach, Melbourne
Life on St Kilda beach
The Capital City Trail/Yarra River Trail bike paths along the Yarra River
Chapel Street is the busy high street of Prahran, Melbourne
St Kilda Pier
Chapel Street Precinct on a windy day when you couldn't walk down the street without wiping sand from your eyes
Date
The beach in the Port Melbourne neighbourhood
Street clutter
Hosier Lane is a patchwork of graffiti
Narrow Hosier Lane (straddled in the middle of the Central Business District, just like nearby AC/DC lane) is full of fairly creative graffiti
The Australian Dream - the affluent neighbourhood of Hampton
Industrial leftovers a stone's throw from the CBD
Melbourne (just like the rest of Australia) seems like a rather car-centric society, but cycling infrastructure is remarkably good
Albert Park - the road that runs around the lake is turned every year into Formula 1's Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit
Lookout point along the seaside promenade in Elwood
'Caution! Students with long boats crossing'
Melbourne has many excellent cycle paths and bike lanes, including this route that runs for tens of kilometres along the seaside
Escaped balloons
The entrance of Luna Park (a theme park) in St Kilda
'Meat is murder', says the self-eating sausage (with madly grinning children's book character Mr Tickle next to it)
Middle Brighton Beach
Middle Brighton Pier
The CBD as seen from Brighton (about 10km away)
Boulevard of Broken Dreams - perhaps an appropriate decoration in this milk bar in Balaclava
Movida tapas bar uses graffiti-like self-promotion as it's right next to graffiti-filled Hosier Lane
No slippers
A heritage number 30 tram in the Southbank Tram Depot
Terraced houses in the Carlton North neighbourhood of Melbourne
Melbourne people
Southgate pedestrian/cyclist bridge in downtown Melbourne connects the CBD (Central Business District) with the Southbank
Pickles Street
Power kites (kites strong enough to pull a person on a surfboard/skateboard/buggy) on St Kilda Beach
The seaside promenade in Elwood on a hot summer day
Melbourne has a fairly extensive public transport network of trams and commuter trains
Resting in Studley Park (Abbotsford)
View from the top of Curtin House
Melbourne seaside
Bayside bike path
Bayside
St Kilda beach
Sitting on the bank of the Yarra
Space invaders in Australia
This is probably art.
The donkeys are on a strict diet at Collingwood Children's Farm in Abbotsford
Busy Swan Street in Richmond
Tai Chi on the beach
Victorian terraced houses in Melbourne's Cremorne neighbourhood
The Albert Park neighbourhood is full of Victorian heritage buildings like these
Summer in Albert Park
Terraced houses (rowhouses) in the Albert Park neighbourhood
Melbourne is crisscrossed by a tram network
The keeper of the trams (various generations can be seen from the historic W6 type to modern, 21st century Combinos)
A less flattering view of the CBD from Curtin House on Swanston Street
The Skipping Girl, an iconic neon sign in Abbotsford formerly used to advertise a brand of vinegar called 'Skipping Girl'
Tenant directory in eclectic Curtin House (with a rooftop bar and cinema on the 7th floor)
Summer
Waiting for the tram
The Webb pedestrian and cyclist bridge in Melbourne's Docklands (large chunks of which being transformed into a business district)
A probably once simple utility pole that got more and more complicated over the years
The Capital City Trail/Yarra River Trail cycle path running along the Yarra River
Yarra Promenade
Southgate Bridge and the CBD (Central Business District)
Posh houses along the Yarra River