Category Archives: Melbourne/GAC

For me our trip to Melbourne was perfectly bookended by these two excellently (but accidently) mirrored pictures of Jess (on our first day) and Emily (on our last):

On our last morning in Melbourne, Jess, Emily and I walked up to the Victoria Market to check out the acres of clothing and crap plastic junk. Then we walked to Smith St, a funky place full of small interesting … Continue reading →

Emily flew over to join us for a few days after GAC. We spent the first day of her trip wandering around the Botanical Gardens, and then walking out to St Kilda to take in the famed chocolate dens.

I spent the Friday morning happily pootling up and down the river on a Williamstown ferry. Then in the evening Jess and I went to the opening events of the Global Atheist Convention. You can read my report on GAC … Continue reading →

Jess and I took the train out to the Dandenong moutains to do a little hiking. It was a lovely two-hour loop through a thick Eucalyptus forest, with the extraordinary racket kicked up by the cockatoos in the canopy above … Continue reading →

My friend Jess and I are in Melbourne, primarily to attend the Global Atheist Convention. But the Convention only lasts the weekend, and we have arranged to be here for several days on either side. We spent our first day … Continue reading →