I came across this website, http://www.abc.net.au/melbourne/podcast.htm which provides tours around Melbourne city. So, it's like having a tour guide but even better cause you can play, pause, rewind and change the volume. Equipped with a map, my ipod and camera...I went on the journey to discover Melbourne...*if you guys want to know the significance of the pictures do visit the website and listen to the podcast'
The starting point, federation square for the podcast of 'Eat and Drink Melbourne'
Graffiti on the walls of the infamous Caledonian Lane
While I was walking to the next stop, I saw this poster and it reminded me of my mom cause she absolutely LOVES chinese opera. *Mom, to think you've been waiting to watch it for so long and here they are in melbourne...lolx*
Later that night...Thanks to http://www.whitehat.com.au
I found out about a jazz concert at fed square in conjunction with FINA (swimming championship). They were quite good and I fairly enjoyed myself:)
Best things in life are meant to be shared. So, the next time round, I dragged Mel along for another podcast session 'Death, Dirt and Disease'.The Yarra River may look calm and picturesque now but it had a dark past before. It was inhibited by many dead bodies, one in particular which was named the 'boot trunk tragedy'. A lady was found in a boot trunk, thus to identify her, the morgue cut her head and put it on display as her death was suspected to be foul play.
Her displayed head drew huge attention as a huge reward was to be rewarded to the person who could identify her. After a few months, a lady stepped out and revealed that she was the assistant of a midwife that helped to abort the lady's unwanted child as the child was conceived out of wedlock by the dead lady and her landlord who was engaged to another person. They tried all the backyard abortion methods but everything failed and they finally resorted to the deadly mixture of arsenic which eventually caused her life. As the landlord and the midwife both put her dead body into the boot, both were convicted and sentenced to death.
Wouldn't have guess when you look at the picture below...
Another notorious lane, 'Hosier Lane'
The Women's Hospital was established by a group of pioneer of women who acknowledged the declining health of the general women population due to unorthodox abortion methods because of the low standard of living. Hence, these women set up a donation fund to build the hospital. Then, the rest they say is history...
An RMIT building that we saw on the way...
Another building on the way, Trades Hall...
At the end of a long day, we decided to skip the last two stop and listen to the rest of the podcast in a nearby garden on Lygon St. *painful feet + very gruesome images in our minds but we still manage to smile, hehe*
