While Victoria is the smallest state on the mainland of Australia, it’s capital city Melbourne is known as the sporting capital of the Australia.
Melbourne is Australia’s second largest city, providing many cultural experiences including a large array of theatres, concerts, museums and galleries.
Victoria is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, with the city of Melbourne recognised as a ‘must place to visit’. While the city itself can be a great holiday destination, check out these fantastic places within Victoria for your next holiday.
There are many great attractions in Melbourne for tourist and locals to enjoy.
As a school holiday destination, Victoria offers a large variety of activities for adults and children.
Melbourne is renowned for celebrating life through the conduct of many different annual festivals.
Midsumma Festival – This is a gay and lesbian festival that has a focus on cultural events and the arts. Usually held in late January each year.
St Kilda Festival – See a variety of music performances, outdoor cinema, children’s entertainment, exhibitions and workshops.
A holiday to Tarra Valley with the dogs Planning this road trip had a couple of ways of doing it – with or without the dogs. David’s back was still not up to the whole camping thing (packing heavy stuff and putting up and down a tent), so we decided to book a holiday in … Read more
A weekend at Warrandyte | Olivignia, The Yarra River and Pound Bend Reserve Warrandyte Sometimes we forget that we have the most beautiful places to visit so close to home. We had a friend visit from Perth and he has been to Melbourne many times over the years but had never been to Warrandyte. My … Read more
Summary of our Melbourne to Mildura camping trip We took the Friday off work for a long weekend trip to Mildura. We planned on staying four nights camping in the Buronga Riverside Caravan Park in NSW, and returning on ANZAC day. The Caravan park is located on the Murray River and Mildura CBD is close by, on the other … Read more
90% chance of rain We were meant to stay another night at the Buronga Riverside Caravan Park however after looking up the forecast for later on in the day and over night decided to pack up and go home a day earlier. Our campsite was a few meters from the river and quite boggy. A few … Read more
View from our tent window We woke in the morning and could see birds walking around the front of our tent. Firing up the Coleman cooktop we cooked up some bacon and eggs and toast and enjoyed breakfast overlooking the river. There seems to be lots of activity on the river with boats and people in … Read more
Mildura Visitor’ Centre We found the visitors centre in Mildura and got some local advice on activities for the day. On the list of things to do was to visit the Big Brekkie & Market at the Botanical Gardens, Orange World, Varapodio Estate, Gol Gol Hotel, Wentworth Gaol and the township of Wentworth, and Perry’s … Read more
The car was packed up with all our gear for camping in Mildura. Its always a bit of puzzle to get it all fitting in but Dave always seems to make it work. With the dogs on Dave’s lap and me driving we set off on our way to the dog prison ( kennel). We … Read more
For the long weekend in March 2017 we decided we would like to go to Daylesford and camp there. A few years ago we had stayed in a lovely self contained unit in Hepburn Springs. We had a swim in the hots spas, and ate at local restaurants. Camping in Daylesford with Chillout Festival Goers. … Read more
Tuesday and the day after the Labor day public holiday. Majority of the people packed up and left early yesterday. We had a fantastic sleep in a quiet campsite. There were no kids yelling and playing ball at 6am in the morning. We slept all night with the main flap open and woke up to … Read more
Being the last day of a long weekend it was pack-up time for most of the people staying at the caravan park. Where was lots of noise around us and doors opening and slamming and cars starting up and leaving. Starting with Eggs and Bacon We cooked up some eggs and bacon on the Coleman gas … Read more
We drove the car from the caravan park into town and parked it not far from where the Chillout Parade was going to be. The big wide road was already blocked off and getting ready for action. Breakfast at Larder Daylesford on the day of the Chillout Parade The Larder in Daylesford was busy with … Read more