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Australia Forum Threads for the week of October 23, 2006

Date: October 27th, 2006 | No Comments

Check out these topics currently being discussed on the Australasia forum at BootsnAll:

Boo70007 has been traveling around Australia, and now that she’s back in Sydney, she wants to know - why is the Melbourne Cup such a big deal? And where’s the best spot to watch it in Sydney?
ChristineHind is looking for advice on the [read more]

Second to none, mate

Date: January 25th, 2006 | 1 comment

People always say that Melbourne is in Sydney’s shadow, but really, does anything thing it is anymore? Sure, more people may fly into Sydney, but it seems like most make it 8 hours south to Australia’s ’second city’.
Second to [read more]

Melbourne edges closer to Sydney as Australia�s top tourist destination

Date: August 18th, 2005 | 1 comment

Watch out Sydney! The city’s southern sister is making a move on Sydney’s dollars. According to Tourism Research Australia, Melbourne has 12% of the combined domestic and international spending while Sydney has 15%. The commonwealth games in Melbourne next year should help the city boost numbers even higher. Perhaps now Sydney won’t [read more]

Melbourne’s Brunswick Street

Date: December 7th, 2003 | 5 comments

I didn’t do much sightseeing while I was in Melbourne for a couple of days. Just met up with a couple of old, old friends. One from high school and another from my drunken days in merry England. But before I left I’d asked an acquaintance who had lived in Melbourne for a few years [read more]

Eternal flame put out by vandals

Date: April 13th, 2006 | No Comments

In a bozo, stupid move by inconsiderate teenagers (likely) or idiotic adults, the Eternal flame in Melbourne has been extinguished.
Guards found shattered beer bottles around the flame, which has gone out a number of times since 1954, although rarely due to vandalism. Eternal flame put out [read more]

Melbourne’s the new black for Sydney fashion shoppers

Date: October 4th, 2005 | 1 comment

Numbers are finally backing up what Melbournians have known for years: their shopping is better than that of their northern neighbor. With almost 50% of New South Wales residents ranking Melbourne as the place to shop in Australia, the focus seems to be on ’strip shopping’ versus mall shopping. Melbourne’s the new black [read more]

Melbourne, Victoria

Date: April 17th, 2004 | No Comments

Australia’s second largest city is only an 8 hour drive from its first, but it has a very different feel. The baret-wearing artist’s answer to Sydney, Melburnians are fiercely protective of their cultured city of 3.4 million. Often ranked one of the most livable cities in the world, Melbourne has an array of [read more]