I
have been lucky enough to call Melbourne my home for the last two and a half
years. While it’s not always perfect I have never regretted my decision to live
here and now proudly declare my Melbourne status, and my coffee snobbery, to
pretty much anyone who’ll listen.
One
of the best things about Melbourne is its fantastic CBD. With my house just
20ish minutes away by train I spend many happy days walking it’s grid. I love
that each time I can still find new coffee filled alleys, underground shops and
old world arcades.
This
week I was able to spend the day hanging out with my beautiful cousin (friends
that are family are a real win) who loves Melbourne just as much as I do. Lucky
for us Melbourne is far better in the winter then in the summer and its old
buildings and rather grim skyline actually suit its moody nature.
So
many people ask me what the very best weekend in Melbourne might look like; my
answer is always pretty much the same. JUST WALK. Get a train into the city and
walk down Swanston, on a sunny day walk across the Yarra, if it’s cold and wet
grab an umbrella and a coat and off you go. S and I did just that, no really
plan and a willingness to walk means that you aren’t in danger of missing all
of my favorite parts of Melbourne. The Burke Street Mall, Degraves street (a
small ally that you’d recognize from anything about Melbourne’s ‘coffee
culture.’ But the very best thing of all is the Paris end of Collins Street. I
can’t get enough, the buildings are big, old and beautiful, the churches are
plentiful and calm and because they are mainly banks and other offices it’s
pretty quite on the weekend. Its also home to what feels like the worlds
biggest Dymocks where S and I spend a happy couple of hours reading and sipping
latte’s.
If
you love books and bookshops as much as I do then just one block over on Burke
you have Hill of Content for the best new releases and The Paperback Bookshop
for secondhand gems, sandwiching Pelligrino’s for the best coffee and
anti-pasto plates known to man.
I’m
lucky I have Melbourne, and I’m lucky that I have friends who enjoy it as much
as I do.
TRIP RATING: 5/5 STRONG SOY
FLAT WHITES
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