Travel

Street ARt

In Bogota, Colombia and Valparaíso, Chile, we toured the local street art. Since Melbourne is a big city, I guessed that there would be street art somewhere. I asked any dinner guest we dined with about street art and they all said to google it. Lanes are popular enclaves of specific things e.g. restaurants, covered

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AU Food

There are many food options here in the Central Business District. We have a passing verbalization about “hey let’s go eat,” take the elevator 34 floors down, and then we have a whole world of cuisine to choose. The first night, BF was attracted to the ducks hanging in a Chinese restaurant but the star

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Coffee

I drink 2 cups of coffee daily and rarely after 10am so I can sleep at night. In quarantine, I had Nescafe packets which weren’t great but it was what I had and I took it in stride with everything else that was awful in quarantine. I was told wonder stories about “magic coffee” in

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Melbourne Weekend

This was Labor Day weekend complete with a 3-day weekend and a Moomba Festival. We walked by the festival but didn’t partake in the festivities. On Saturday, we surveyed for trains, trams, and coffee shops. In the afternoon we took a tram to the beach, walked along the cold and windy shore, and ate fish

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I am an extrovert

The last time I took the Myers-Briggs test was maybe 10 years ago and at the time, I scored 50/50 introvert/extrovert. We went out for a night on the town with the folks from our sponsoring company and I can confidently say that after a year of pandemic, I’m an extrovert. First we had cocktails

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