{"id":1496,"date":"2011-06-25T20:57:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T12:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2011-06-25T22:25:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T14:25:58","slug":"a-room-with-a-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=1496","title":{"rendered":"A Room with a View"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Room with a View<\/div>\n
My hotel is well located within easy walking distance of buses, trains and trams not to mention all manner of food.\u00a0\u00a0 It is in the block immediately behind the late 19th<\/sup> century Windsor Hotel which itself is opposite Victoria\u2019s Parliament Building.\u00a0\u00a0 I have an opening window which is directly opposite a multi-story car park.\u00a0\u00a0 My room is small but comfortable.\u00a0 However, my window not only allows in fresh air but the also the sound of 3am revellers closely followed by the disposal of reveller\u2019s bottles by municipal garbos.\u00a0\u00a0 Given a lane and a pretty substantial carpark is between me and the\u00a0 first of a couple of drinking holes sound travels very easily.<\/div>\n
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Windsor Hotel<\/p><\/div>\n

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Windsor Hotel tower<\/p><\/div>\n

This was taken through the window of a tram.<\/div>\n
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Parliamnet House Melbourne<\/p><\/div>\n

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View from my window<\/p><\/div>\n

I started the day at Federation Square where I filled in time viewing the exhibition Man Style http:\/\/www.ngv.vic.gov.au\/whats-on\/exhibitions\/exhibitions\/manstyle2<\/a> containing a gorgeously embroidered 18th<\/sup> Century French silk suit and other exhibits demonstrating the subsequent development of men\u2019s suiting.<\/div>\n
I was then expecting to meet a guide to lead a free 2 hour tour of art in alleys. \u00a0The guide never arrived so I went to the Eureka Tower, a 92 level building which has a section which slides out into space which visitors can enter for an additional price.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t. The glass on the top 10 floors is covered with 24 carat gold.\u00a0 The viewing room certainly was a room with a view.<\/div>\n
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Eureka Tower Melbourne<\/p><\/div>\n

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Port Phillip Bay & Melbourne<\/p><\/div>\n

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Albert Park & beachside suburbs<\/p><\/div>\n

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Circus Oz is in town<\/p><\/div>\n

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Federation Square, Flinder St Station, Princess Bridge & St Pauls Cathedral<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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CBD<\/p><\/div>\n

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More CBD<\/p><\/div>\n

After leaving the tower I headed for Flinders St Station via Ponyfish Island, a tiny island attached to the leg of a pedestrian bridge over the Yarra River.\u00a0 One of my nieces recommended it and it seemed an appropriate time to stop for a coffee.\u00a0\u00a0 According to the blurb on the web it\u2019s a hip place not destined for longevity due to rising river water. \u00a0\u00a0Most seats were occupied, the coffee was good and I enjoyed sitting in the sun even if I didn\u2019t appreciate my trendiness.<\/div>\n
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Ponyfish Island from tower<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ponyfish Island from Southbank<\/p><\/div>\n

Flinders Street Station soon had me on a train and off again 3 stations later at Prahran, the home of my father and his parents a very long time ago.\u00a0 My grandfather, a dentist, dead long before I was born, lives on in Prahran with his profession inscribed into stone on his old doorstep.\u00a0 His building is a 2 storey duplex.\u00a0 The adjoining property has had the downstairs fa\u00e7ade radically modernized into a beauty salon.\u00a0 A hairstylist\/graphic designer\/architect have their names on the old dental surgery and home. It was well located opposite the original Town Hall, court house, fire station, down the road from the train station and close to trendy Chapel Street which still contains remnants of mercantile wellbeing.<\/div>\n
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Previously my grandfather's dental surgery & home<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dentist on step of 175 Greville St<\/p><\/div>\n

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The neighbours, old courthouse & old fire station<\/p><\/div>\n

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Other neighbours, tower of original Town Hall, now library & sign for a clothing shop<\/p><\/div>\n

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Old buildings nearby in Chapel St<\/p><\/div>\n

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Another old building in Chapel St<\/p><\/div>\n

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Another<\/p><\/div>\n

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A row of old cottages in a street on the other side of Chapel St<\/p><\/div>\n

These have gates reminiscent of my childhood and the cat was very friendly.<\/div>\n
After returning to the city I sought out a couple of famous alleyways.\u00a0\u00a0 One was practically covered in graffiti but light was limited and photos are patchy.\u00a0 I have included a couple of photos of street life in Melbourne.<\/div>\n
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Knitted squares on the triangular structure in Federation <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
This was part of a festival of illumination in Federation Square<\/div>\n
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Playing hack sac in Federation Square although with a smaller bag than that used in China<\/p><\/div>\n

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Street artist<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n

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Grafetti Greville St<\/p><\/div>\n

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in Hosier Lane CBD<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Room with a View My hotel is well located within easy walking distance of buses, trains and trams not to mention all manner of food.\u00a0\u00a0 It is in the block immediately behind the late 19th century Windsor Hotel which itself is opposite Victoria\u2019s Parliament Building.\u00a0\u00a0 I have an opening window which is directly opposite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[98,93,84],"tags":[14,85,15],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-china","category-melbourne","tag-architecture","tag-art","tag-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}