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The lunch hour traveller
Tuesday 9 February 2010, 5.39 PM
By The Team | Posted in Places
While travelling propels and entices you to get out and experience all facets of life, it’s staggering how much we neglect what our own city has to offer. Do you ever find yourself staring wistfully into a discount flight-booking agency while waiting for the dude to turn green on your way to work?
Travel is one of the great parts of life, so why save it up for the times you actually get away? Why not explore the history, culture, arts, entertainment, events and attractions happening in your hometown hotspot? All those international travellers aren’t here for nothing.
Live a day in your lunch hour
While work may still challenge and engage, sometimes there needs to be something else in a day, something significant – however small – to distinguish it from the rest. All it takes is an hour out of your day to challenge your thinking, change your perspective or give you something to reflect on.
In this new post series, ‘The lunch hour traveller’, I’ll seek out a new experience for you to squeeze into your work-week to spice things up a little. A live-a-day, lunch time challenge.
Hope to see you out in Melbourne’s streets very soon!
(In the meantime, That’s Melbourne is the perfect search tool to get you started and keep you up-to-date with what’s happening in the city.)
Tell us about your travels
Already getting out and about between the hours of 12pm and 2pm? What do you like to do in your lunch break to feel like you’ve really lived that day and experienced something different? What have you discovered in the short and sharp range in the city? Tell us about your mini-Melbourne adventures by leaving a comment below.
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6 comments
great post. I would love to follow you on twitter.
By amazon coupon
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Ah, and I thought I was the only one who liked doing this sort of thing!
At least once every few weeks I try to spend a lunchbreak just picking a random direction in the city, and going for a bit of an explore.
Discovering some previously-unknown little shop, statue or piece of sculpture, or even just looking up and seeing a fascinating building facade I’ve never noticed before, takes me out of the day-to-day grind.
I look forward to picking up some tips here on exploration locations I’ve missed.
By Mr Foozwah
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This is fantastic. I do this kind of thing too! I’ve just returned to Australia after 6 years living overseas, and one of the promises I made to myself was to live in Melbourne as if I was new to the country, in much the same way as I have lived overseas.
A few weeks ago I went on the City Circle tram and looked at all the buildings I knew living here as a child, and then went to the State Library (where I’d never been before) to look at the exhibits and take lots of photos. And the Melbourne Central Shot Tower over the road always brings out the ‘wow’ in me.
By Miss L
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My friend and I work in Fitzroy together and we go on ‘photo walks’ around the backstreets of Collingwood, Fitzroy and Carlton once a week on our lunchbreak. All you need is a camera and an eye for detail. So fun!
Liesl
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By Liesl
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I am kinda a traveler, so I don’t have to work. However, I do these things once in a while with my camera and bike. And That’s Melbourne is always the greatest source that helps my little adventures. I want to know and discover places as deep as local Melbourne people do. Every time I go home after finishing the little travel, it’s my habit to mark the routes or spots on the map that day and that makes me happy and satisfied. As a Asian, the buildings, the food, the languages, the scenes, and the people are all so different and new to me which add some extra fun to my travel. What a lovely city Melbourne is!
By Ssuhua Chen
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I like to work during lunch.
Well, not so much ‘like’. More ‘have to’.
By Bob
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