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Friday, October 7, 2011

Melbourne Weekend

We have just returned from a wonderful five days in Melbourne - yes - it was Grand Final weekend, and no - we didn't go, although we got caught up in the parade on Friday after visiting the National Gallery of Victoria  (wonderful exhibition - the Viennese Secession  - Klimt, Schiele etc).
The reason for the trip was that Bob was invited to speak at an International Forum - "Climate Change: Social Change" which had attracted the likes of John Bellamy-Foster from the US and Ian Angus from Canada, along with numerous speakers from movements such as the Arab Spring and so forth. We learned a lot, but we also had a bit of playtime.
This is what I saw when I looked out of the hotel window on Sunday morning:


We took a tram down to St Kilda on Monday before we flew home - just to walk on the beach and also check out the cake-lovers pornography shops in Acland Street - we were only window shopping!






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4 comments:

  1. UnknownOctober 7, 2011 at 9:44 PM

    You are a stronger woman than me if you resisted those cake shops

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  2. Susie McMahonOctober 8, 2011 at 5:07 AM

    Well............we did have sinful iced chocolates and chocolate sundaes! After that, we were too full to contemplate cakes.

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  3. Apple Island WifeOctober 10, 2011 at 5:02 PM

    Will look forward to hearing more about that conference and the Klimt expo at the next Tanya class...

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  4. bubOctober 30, 2011 at 10:03 AM

    I would have done much more than look.

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