And no other city other than this, the ‘Cultural Capital’ of Australia, can offer you so many ways to lose yourself. From the celebrated lane-ways of downtown Melbourne that materialize like the magical Platform 93/4 in the Harry Potter stories (and promise you as many exotic enchantments), to the cantankerous old Trams; from the quaint markets that are literal Aladdin's caves stuffed with hidden treasure to the ubiquitous, yet outstanding Coffee that lubricates the wheels of Melbournians life; from the MCG, the spiritual home of Aussie sport, with its capacity for holding 100000 beer- filled Aussie Rules Football fans, to the quiet seclusion of the designer strips on the St Kilda beachside where you can watch the world pass by over a beer at the legendary Espy (Australian for The Esplanade) followed by a dalliance with sin at what’s claimed to be the world’s most delicious Chocolate Kooglhoupf at Monarch’s (so popular, it’s Fedexed across the world); from feeling Venetian on a gondola ride along the Yarra to feeling positively prehistoric as you serenade a Platypus from a canoe on a remote lake at the Otway National Park.....you’ll begin to understand why Melbourne has been rated the ‘world’s most livable city’ for consecutive years.
But hold your hats...Melbourne is not really a city. It’s a person, charming and fey and full of beans. She’s a happy schizophrenic who takes you on a seamless transition between the real and the imagined, between multiple personalities that co-exist in joyfully chaotic harmony: she offers you an experience that puts contrasting life-defining and life-altering moments into a blender and shakes it up into a surreal cocktail of newer truths.
One sip of this heady ambrosia and we guarantee you’re a goner. You’ll keep coming back, like an addict, for your regular fix of Melbourne”