One Super Supreme Melbourne with the lot
A tangle of ribbons outside the Arts Centre. (It was part of the summer holiday program – an installation/performance piece by Polyglot Theatre.)
The Indigenous Galleries at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. This is one of our favourite places to take visitors to Melbourne (whether they want to go there or not…)
Cakes shops on Acland Street, in St Kilda.
St Kilda’s iconic Luna Park…
…where the girls bravely rode the Scenic Railway. It is a roller-coaster encircling the Park, and was first opened in 1912. Yes, that’s right…it is 100 years old. It creaks and rattles like you’d expect a centenarian to.
We headed out of town to Healesville Sanctuary to introduce Britannia to some native fauna, including this very cute baby wombat who insisted on getting her tummy scratched.
I know taking an English girl to see Captain Cook’s Cottage may seem akin to taking coal to Newcastle. I think Britannia was somewhat bemused at the thought of visiting a cottage no different to thousands of others she’s seen dotting the countryside at home. But when we explained that this cottage is where Captain James Cook (one of the first explorers of Australia) grew up in Yorkshire, England, and how it was dismantled in 1934, shipped to Melbourne and reassembled brick by brick in the Fitzroy Gardens, effectively making it Australia’s oldest buildings…now, that’s interesting.
Nearby is the Fairies Tree, made by artist Ola Cohn in the 1930s…
…and the Model Tudor Village which was a gift to Melbourne from the people of Lambeth in London after the Melbourne folk sent food packages during the Second World War.
I can remember visiting all three of these sights during my first trip to Melbourne as a 12 year old. Generations of children will share that memory.
No visit to Melbourne would be complete without admiring some of the street art.
And an Artists’ Market is always fun to wander through.
However, I think one of the biggest highlights for all of us, was Britannia’s reaction to the concept of pizza home delivery.
As she is from a rural area in England, she doesn’t have the opportunity to have pizza home delivered and was very excited about the process. The pizza delivery guy was most bemused when we asked if he’d mind if we took his photo. Once we explained it was Britannia’s first ever pizza home delivery, he happily grinned for the camera and posed handing over the boxes to her.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good photo opportunity.
