Category Archives: Melbourne

Week in Melbourne

Monday Bloggers’ Dinner at Bhoj Indian Restaurant. Meet 5:30pm at VALA Rego desk, Melbourne Convention Centre. Bhoj is at 54 Promenade, New Quay, Docklands. Tuesday VALA begins. 1-2pm Primo demo. Bridge Room 1, Crowne Plaza, 1-5 Spencer Street 7pm OCLC Dinner Level 89, Eureka Tower 7 Riverside Quay Southbank Wednesday 12 – 2 ExLibris Strategic [...]

Coming up

We’ll be in Melbourne on Sunday, and this week has been incredibly hectic, with birthdays, cake making, Chinese New Year card writing, and all sorts of last minute tasks to do before the trip. I almost wish we were going to Sydney instead, because I know what I like to do in Sydney (and there’s [...]

Cup Day

Yesterday was the day of The Race That Stops A Nation. For my non-Australian readers, it was the Melbourne Cup, an annual horse race that falls every year on the second Tuesday of November, is a public holiday in Melbourne, and is generally A Very Big Deal all across the country. I don’t really know [...]