These posts will be about the tours we do.
Apr
29
That we needed to provide you with a local guide to vintage shopping in Melbourne quickly became apparent after spotting some Melbourne locals in beehives, cats eye glasses and bobby socks. After meeting vintage princess Danielle Pumo on our Hidden Secrets tour, it was obvious she should be our vintage expert. GT: Tell us what …
Apr
29
Discovering Melbourne’s ‘hidden secrets’ on a Lane and Arcades tour wasn’t high on our list of priorities, I have to admit. But Paris has its boulevards, Venice has its canals, Barcelona has its ramblas, Sydney has its harbour, and, well, Melbourne has its lanes. We half-suspected all the chatter about Melbourne’s famous laneways was simply the result of a successful tourism campaign. And by …
Apr
28
Today we’re meandering the Masala Trail in Dandenong in Melbourne, to get a taste of ‘Little India’ in Australia, one of the world’s most cosmopolitan countries. Nowhere is Australia’s ethnic diversity felt more than in multicultural Melbourne, the capital of its southern state Victoria, and Melbourne’s outer-suburb Dandenong, where 55% of residents are foreign-born, from 156 different countries. The …
Apr
27
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 …
Feb
08
It’s safe to say that Lao cuisine is not known very well outside South East Asia – unlike Thai and Vietnamese cuisines. Lao food hasn’t reached the level of popularity – and ubiquity – that other South East Asian cuisines have in the West. The cuisine of Laos has stayed as mysterious as the country itself – which …
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