Hey guys,

Today I went on a little adventure, the first of it's kind this time round, to one of my favourite places in Melbourne, St Kilda. I mainly did this because I have a photography assignment due this coming week and thought St Kilda would be a good place to take photos. But the main reason is because I love it there.

I took with me my trusted bag, full of things to explore with, and my camera loaded with 35mm film, yes that's that old school stuff. And ventured off into the sunshine.

Armed with my bag I hopped on the tram and hoped not to get lost. This was my first time going to St Kilda from this direction of Melbourne, so I figured that I would most likely get lost. Which I did. I had to switch trams half way, and didn't know which side of the road the other tram stopped at. So I missed it. But the good thing was that this was the only hick-up of the day.

Eventually I got to St Kilda and got to enjoy it in the sun. 

I walked along the beach and slowly made my way along my favourite markets, gazing at the wonders that were being sold, but not being able to buy much, besides a ring from a stall I love and some carmel fudge.

I managed to get everything I needed for my assignment, as well as enjoy being back there, for the first time this year.

I then had to meet up with  my cousin in the city, so I hopped on another tram and headed into the city, stopping at south bank. I walked along the river and enjoyed the sun and the general atmosphere of the area. And met my cousin at a cut little restaurant under a bridge, where we ate food and caught up.

This is one thing that I love about living in Melbourne. Things like this, and days like these.

xx Kat

Four days of a Melbourne adventure

I got a mini vacation during the past week from my normal life and my studies, to beautiful Melbourne. The main reason was to see my cousin get his PhD in Philosophy. But also to have a small holiday with my family.

 

I love Melbourne. It's an amazing place of colour and culture, with many different events and festivals on all year round. I had only recently discovered the wonder that is Melbourne at the beginning of the year when I went to visit my cousin there and house sit for a friend of his.

 

I can tell you that i was instantly in love with the city and being able to go back was exciting for me.

Not only did I get to go back to a place that I love, I also got to have a few days from my life in Sydney.

 

So on a sunny wednesday afternoon in Sydney, my mum, aunt, uncle and I hopped on a plane to Melbourne.

 

Whilst Melbourne was cloudy, cold and raining the whole time we were there it was still rather magnificent.

 

Beautiful door handles to a amazingly designed building.

 

A chuch on Fitzroy St St Kilda. I don't actually know what the name of it is.

 

 

 

 

Melbourne lights up at night. From our hotel room we could see the entire of the Melbourne city sky line.

Albert park.

St Kilda beach and Wharf.

 

One of the many interesting intersections in Melbourne. Taken from the inside of RMIT university of Swanston St.

 

We were also lucky enough to see the hollywood costume exhabition, at ACMI(Australian Centre of the Moving Image). Which is a exhabition that has gathered an amazing bunch of costumes from A ton of movies. If you have the chance to go and see this exhabition, do so. Its amazing and the costumes are in stunning shape. I was a little excited about this because they had two costumes from Tim Burton(who is one of my favourite directors) movies. That of a Sweeney Todd costume, and the Catwoman costume from one of the Batman movies he did.

 

While it was only four days, it was a major adventure, as I got to see more of Melbourne than I did last time. This certainly won't be the last time I will visit the lovely city. And even though it was super cold down there, I still had a blast seeing some parts of Melbourne that I missed last time.

 

xx Kat