Lara Dunston

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Name: Lara Dunston
Date registered: December 30, 2009
URL: http://cooltravelguide.com

Latest posts

  1. The Best Melbourne Markets — April 27, 2012
  2. How To Make A Mojito — April 7, 2012
  3. Afternoon Tea at The Hotel Windsor, a Melbourne Tradition — March 26, 2012
  4. From Taste of Melbourne to Melbourne Food and Wine Festival — March 17, 2012
  5. Eating Out In Melbourne: from European to Asian and Back Again — March 8, 2012

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Apr
27

The Best Melbourne Markets

Melbourne is blessed with brilliant fresh produce markets and we toured three of the best Melbourne markets, the Queen Victoria Market, South Melbourne Market, and Prahran Market, on our recent trip. Why do a tour of a market? Isn’t it enough just to shop the market and soak up the atmosphere? To take in the …

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Apr
07

How To Make A Mojito

Sensology Art of Cocktail Making classes at the Taste of Melbourne festival. Run by Bacardi in conjunction with Longrain Melbourne.

Cocktail time. A class on how to make a Mojito was one of the highlights of the Taste of Melbourne festival. Out of all the events we went to, the cocktail making lessons were the ones that seemed to excite festivalgoers the most. Long lines, packed sessions, and lots of locals taking their cocktail educations …

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Mar
26

Afternoon Tea at The Hotel Windsor, a Melbourne Tradition

Afternoon tea at The Hotel Windsor is a quintessential Melbourne experience for many, and for locals as much as tourists. While afternoon tea may currently be in vogue – it was inevitable it would follow on from the cupcake fad – the Hotel Windsor has been serving its traditional afternoon tea continuously since 1883, and …

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Mar
17

From Taste of Melbourne to Melbourne Food and Wine Festival

Like all good foodie cities, Melbourne in Australia is home to a handful of delicious food festivals, from Taste of Melbourne to Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. It was Taste of Melbourne, held in September, that we used as an excuse to travel here last year and get to know the city’s food scene, and the …

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Mar
08

Eating Out In Melbourne: from European to Asian and Back Again

You can take a culinary trip around the world, eating out in Melbourne – from Europe to Asia and back again – and that’s virtually what we did on our recent foodie trip, eating everything from Italian, French and British to Japanese, Thai and regional Chinese. To Australians, this kind of eating isn’t unusual. Like …

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