{"id":310,"date":"2008-04-16T19:20:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T19:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/wp\/?p=310"},"modified":"2014-01-11T07:01:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T23:01:56","slug":"melbourne-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/melbourne-on-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"We had a late start today. It wasn\u2019t Emma\u2019s fault, and I maintain it wasn\u2019t my fault either \u2013 I blame the Esplanade Hotel from the night before. We spent the evening (and part of the early morning) enjoying The Espy in St Kilda \u2013 four live acts on a Tuesday night isn\u2019t too bad \u2013 and some of the acts were actually good! The others struggled though. It was great to catch up with Marcus again, and we swapped stories long into the night on the happenings of Melbourne and Fitzroy Crossing. Marcus suggested a \"\"great little caf\u00e9 on the main strip of St Kilda before venturing to one of the great venues for up and coming Australian artists. Top night, but lousy morning!
\nWe ventured off just before midday back to St Kilda to see the area in a sober state\u2026 and in the daylight! After sighting the mandatory \u201cmouth\u201d to Luna Park, and sighing over not being able to see a gig at the Palais Theatre, we wandered into Rare Records for \"\"a look. Wow! Apart from having all the You Am I singles from over the years, there were also vinyls from Metallica dating back to the early 80\u2019s, and a Nirvana CD Single for Pennyroyal Tea\u2026 which I assume was very rare, because it was on sale at a mere $750! After dragging Emma around that store (but staying strong and not buying anything), we then went up the road into another record store \u2013 quite unremarkable, except for the fact that it is owned and run by Bon Scott\u2019s son.
\nWe jumped on the tram again straight back into the city, and began the (what turned into a) long walk to Docklands and the DFO store \"\"(Direct Factory Outlet). DFO is like HarbourTown on steroids. But like HarbourTown, we walked around and actually visited very few stores. Emma bought a new pair of trendy sneakers and some tops, and I tagged along, slowly recovering from the obvious drink-spiking that had occurred the night before.
\nFrom here we walked towards Docklands itself, past the majestic Telstra Dome (the retractable roof is amazing! Unfortunately the sun was in a horrible spot, and no photos turned out).
\nBy this time, it was getting close to dark, so we caught the tram back to Bourke Street Mall and met up with Azba and Brad. They took us to a lovely bar on the edge of Chinatown (which claimed to \"\"be the \u201clongest bar in Melbourne\u201d. It was long), where I discovered that my taste for beer had finally returned. We also enjoyed a wonderful meal, and Azba even put a tiny piece of squid in her mouth. She then proceeded to pretend to like it. We were all very proud of her!
\nWe said our goodbyes to Az and Brad, and on returning home, pretty much crashed and burned. So far it\u2019s been flat out, but fantastic. Interesting to see what tomorrow brings!<\/p>\n

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We had a late start today. It wasn\u2019t Emma\u2019s fault, and I maintain it wasn\u2019t my fault either \u2013 I blame the Esplanade Hotel from the night before. We spent the evening (and part of the early morning) enjoying The Espy in St Kilda \u2013 four live acts on a Tuesday night isn\u2019t too bad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-kids","tag-melbourne","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/last-import-6.jpg?fit=275%2C206&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8sUAc-50","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}