Melbourne
From Sydney it was off to two days in Melbourne, where Jim DeCorpo and Chuck had two sets of meetings.
There's a store here that claims to have the best ice cream in the world -- so we just had to check to see if their claim could be verified. In fact, we had to check it twice -- just to be sure. We decided we haven't tried enough different ice creams to be able to confirm it is the WORLD's best -- so we'll have to keep on tasting.
Melbourne has, over the years, become the new home to large numbers of immigrants. In fact it claims to have a larger Greek community than most Greek cities. So we had a great Greek dinner here. (Hmmm..... is there a "food theme" developing here?)
On the second day, while the guys were working, Kathi and Susan DeCorpo visited the immigration museum -- first time we'd seen one of those. They found it very interesting and worthwhile. The ladies also visited "Captain Cook's cottage", which purports to be the cottage the great explorer lived in in England, moved piece by piece to Australia.
The city has a great National Arts Center (or, Centre), including a very large, modern theater. We were able to get last-minute tickets to the musical "Dusty", based on the life of singer Dusty Springfield. Good show -- followed by a fine Italian dinner overlooking the river. (There's that food thing again!) While eating on the terrace of the restaurant we were entertained with a great fireworks display over the river -- we never did learn what the occasion was that called for fireworks. We decided to interpret it as a welcome display for us.
Then it was off to Canberra for the Calvanos and to Brisbane for the DeCorpos.
Some pictures of Melbourne are at: http://chuck.smugmug.com/gallery/1223952/1/57315702
There's a store here that claims to have the best ice cream in the world -- so we just had to check to see if their claim could be verified. In fact, we had to check it twice -- just to be sure. We decided we haven't tried enough different ice creams to be able to confirm it is the WORLD's best -- so we'll have to keep on tasting.
Melbourne has, over the years, become the new home to large numbers of immigrants. In fact it claims to have a larger Greek community than most Greek cities. So we had a great Greek dinner here. (Hmmm..... is there a "food theme" developing here?)
On the second day, while the guys were working, Kathi and Susan DeCorpo visited the immigration museum -- first time we'd seen one of those. They found it very interesting and worthwhile. The ladies also visited "Captain Cook's cottage", which purports to be the cottage the great explorer lived in in England, moved piece by piece to Australia.
The city has a great National Arts Center (or, Centre), including a very large, modern theater. We were able to get last-minute tickets to the musical "Dusty", based on the life of singer Dusty Springfield. Good show -- followed by a fine Italian dinner overlooking the river. (There's that food thing again!) While eating on the terrace of the restaurant we were entertained with a great fireworks display over the river -- we never did learn what the occasion was that called for fireworks. We decided to interpret it as a welcome display for us.
Then it was off to Canberra for the Calvanos and to Brisbane for the DeCorpos.
Some pictures of Melbourne are at: http://chuck.smugmug.com/gallery/1223952/1/57315702
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