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Take a Ride on the Puffing Billy

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

If you’re looking for something special just outside of the city of Melbourne, why not come to the Dandenongs and go for a ride on the Puffing Billy.  Probably Australia’s most famous steam train ride, the train leaves from Belgrave and travels through many of the small towns in the Dandenong Ranges.  A great ride, fantastic scenery and lots of fun.  I love that we now live near where this train travels daily and love hearing the whistle blow throughout the day.

Crossing the famous trestlebridge

Return trip on the trestle bridge

Autumn in Melbourne

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

This is my favourite time of year. Still some warm days, but cooler nights, the leaves are turning colour and everything looks lovely. We have green, yellow, gold, orange, red, brown and many other variations in between.

Kallista Tea Rooms

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Now we live in the Dandenongs we decided to go to the Kallista Tea Rooms for Sunday morning breakfast.  Something we’d promised ourselves before we even shifted. It only took us 6 weeks to go.

We were disappointed that even with a booking they didn’t have a table for us when we got there and they had to rearrange other customers to fit us in. This was partly because the MG Car Club had increased their booking just that morning and the windows where I hoped we would sit weren’t available. So I wasn’t able to take bird photos at the feeder – one of the special things about the Kallista Tea rooms and also one of the reasons why I wanted to go there.  I had brought my camera prepared.  However when the MG Car Club people turned up, I was able to content myself instead with some photos of their cars.   If you click on the image below you’ll see more of their cars in the gallery at Flickr.

MG Car

MG Car

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My name is Kathie and I'm an avid blogger. I also write books. You can visit more of my blogs in the blogroll below.

The original blog for this is at Blogger but I've now purchased the domain and shifted it to Wordpress on my own server.

If you're from outside of Australia I hope this blog will give you some insight to life in Melbourne, Australia - one of the best cities in the world to visit!

The photo above was taken from a window high up in the Crown Towers and overlooks the Yarra River towards the Flinders Street Station.

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