Melbourne Landmarks - Melbourne Town Hall

9. June 2008, 7:57 UhrVictorian LandmarksKaren

I recently spoke at the Emerging Writers’ Festival and it was held in the city at Melbourne Town Hall. It is one of Melbourne’s best known landmarks and is the venue for many great events; perhaps most famously the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

My particular session, ‘Everybody wants to hear what I’ve got to say…’ was held up on the second floor in the Yarra Room.

It was a lovely room of plush carpeting and impressive portraits hung on the wall and I deeply regret not taking my camera to take some shots, because the breakout area was on the second floor balcony, which if you looked over to the left you could get some marvellous views down St Kilda Rd towards the War Memorial, or to the right, back up Swanston towards the main shopping areas.

Then, afterwards, I had lunch at Federation Square, one of the more recent cultural and social tourist attractions built in Melbourne. Depending on who you talk to, it is either beautiful or hideous (my opinion is of the former camp).

Melbourne is my adopted city. It’s taken some years, but I think I love her now. I love the shopping, at any rate

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5 comments:

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Lightening, 9. June 2008, 10:37

You didn’t tell us what you had to say Karen!!!

I LOVE Melbourne. I’m sure I left a part of my heart there when I left. It certainly has GREAT shopping!!!
Sueblimely, 10. June 2008, 9:52

I hope your talk went well and it was not too stressful for you leading up to it.
PlanningQueen, 10. June 2008, 17:01

I love Fed Square too and love that it is a place that makes the arts accesible to all. Sorry to read that this your last post at Aussie Blogger, but I am sure you need all the time you can for your soon to be published book!
Simon Oboler, 10. June 2008, 22:30

Melbourne is a gret city, if I do say so myself.
Only reason in have ever been to the Town Hall has been for the comedy festival though, I have been into a lot of the rooms there, but unforutunately not the one you mentioned in your atricle. Maybe next festival