• Jo MayA Pre Christmas SojournTraveler
    Morning tea at pretty Euroa. It has a proper Main Street with many interesting little shops.
    Euroa also had a Big Magpie!1Flinders St StationMelbourne Town Hall by GrahamInside St Paul's Cathedral MelbourneThe food on offer in Lygon Street is to die for!First stop for coffee out of Melbourne sweet Woodend.Stopping by Daylesford on a sunny day for lunchLunch at the upmarket Daylesford HotelGraham wants a beer too.Gorgeous stained glass windowsMy vegetarian "sausage" roll with apple chutney; Graham has Eggplant Parmigiana with chips!Something in the soil makes the roses very bright and highly perfumed.Daylesford flowers pierce the eye with colour.On the road to Bendigo through this high country.We do love the road!A blue tree ...Mount Franklin

    To Melbourne and out again

    Dec 10–12, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    We decided that we would have lunch in Euroa, before heading into the southern megacity of Melbourne. I had a two day symposium at the University of Melbourne, so we were heading to Carlton and the Best Western on Drummond, one street back from the famous/infamous Lygon Street. We had a lovely time with the ANZHES crew, my papers were well received and we had a good time at this hotel. Recommended. I didn’t take many pictures because I was too busy, and our three nights there flew by. Then we were on the road again for our next destination- three full nights in beautiful Bendigo, detouring on the way through the Macedon range to Daylesford where we had lunch. The country around Daylesford is absolutely beautiful and we can see why folk want to live there, near Melbourne but out of it.Read more