Terry Oglesby of Possumblog fame invites readers to take part in his weekly three-question Axis of Weevil Thursday Three.
Here are his questions and my answers:
1) If you had only one hour to show a visitor something interesting in your hometown, where would you go?
We would take a tram ride down Lygon Street through the city and across the Princes Bridge (far classier than the Sydney Harbour Coathanger) and down magnificent St Kilda Road past the Arts Centre (much better than the Sydney Opera Barn) and the Shrine of Remembrance and ending up in Acland Street. There we go, one hour exactly. And just in time for lunch.
2) If you then had to find that friend a great place for a quick bite to eat, where would you go?
Well, we're in Acland Street, so there's food everywhere you look. But you said quick bite, so let's go to Scheherezade for some chicken soup or latkes or coffee and butter cake.
3) Now that you’ve entertained and fed your friend, it’s time to send him on his way. You’re not sure which way he’s going, but he’s got a fast red convertible, and you want him to see something nice as he drives. What route from your home to someplace else, either to the north, south, east, or west would you recommend to him as the most scenic drive?
I wish he'd told me about the fast red convertible before we creaked our way around town in a tram. No matter, let's go: I hear the call of the Great Ocean Road.
Now. What are your favourite hometown landmarks?
Here are his questions and my answers:
1) If you had only one hour to show a visitor something interesting in your hometown, where would you go?
We would take a tram ride down Lygon Street through the city and across the Princes Bridge (far classier than the Sydney Harbour Coathanger) and down magnificent St Kilda Road past the Arts Centre (much better than the Sydney Opera Barn) and the Shrine of Remembrance and ending up in Acland Street. There we go, one hour exactly. And just in time for lunch.
2) If you then had to find that friend a great place for a quick bite to eat, where would you go?
Well, we're in Acland Street, so there's food everywhere you look. But you said quick bite, so let's go to Scheherezade for some chicken soup or latkes or coffee and butter cake.
3) Now that you’ve entertained and fed your friend, it’s time to send him on his way. You’re not sure which way he’s going, but he’s got a fast red convertible, and you want him to see something nice as he drives. What route from your home to someplace else, either to the north, south, east, or west would you recommend to him as the most scenic drive?
I wish he'd told me about the fast red convertible before we creaked our way around town in a tram. No matter, let's go: I hear the call of the Great Ocean Road.
Now. What are your favourite hometown landmarks?
Sorry about not mentioning the car first, Kitchen Hand, but the tram ride still sounds like a nice way to see things.
ReplyDeleteOooh. That would be a lovely trip.
ReplyDeleteI'd take them on foot - from my home its a short walk to brunswick street, rathdowne st, lygon st, melbourne cemetry (hey, some people like that kind of thing and Filou opposite it has the most divine french pastries) or even on a bike on the track that runs from the merri creek to the zoo.
ReplyDeleteOr it would be a bar crawl of the city - down the laneways and hope we could score a table as the night went on at Movida and end up at the Supper Culb.
Or it would be the no 96 light rail swicsing through the city, over the river and land a table for a long lunch at Ciccolina at the end.
Really, from my doorstep in Melbourne there are too many possibilities. Fortunately there is a steady stream of guests so I get to play out all the different scenarios :)
Hehehe... my home town is a place called "Woodenbong".
ReplyDeleteQ1: Um... there really isn't much in Woodenbong... nice view from the hill above the cemetery...
Q2: There's a take-away shop, if you don't rock up too late...
Q3: Only three roads out of town -- take the one to Brisbane! Nice views through rainforest, then around the mountain...
Melbourne Cemetery is brooding with history, AOF. I know all those places you mentioned very well - that bike track runs on an old railway branch line - you can still see remnants of track and signals.
ReplyDeleteAnother great Australian place name, Anna!