National Gallery of Victoria

Today is a visit to the National Gallery of Victoria, I simply love museums!

St Kilda beach

St Kilda Beach is located in St Kilda, Port Phillip, 6 km south from the Melbourne city center. You can take tram #96 and it will end right in St. Kilda. It is Melbourne's most famous beach. The beach is a sandy beach about 700 mtr long between St Kilda Marina and St Kilda Harbour along Jacka Boulevard and St Kilda Esplanade. 

Carlton Gardens Melbourne

The Exhibition Fountain, designed for the 1880 Exhibition by sculptor Joseph Hochgurtel

The Carlton Gardens is a World Heritage Site of 26-hectare site with Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne Museum and Imax Cinema, tennis courts and an award-winning children's playground. It is situated on the northeastern edge of the Central Business District in the suburb of Carlton, Melbourne

The rectangular site is bound by Victoria Street, Rathdowne Street, Carlton Street, and Nicholson Street. From the Exhibition building the gardens gently slope down to the southwest and northeast.

The gardens are an example of Victorian landscape design with sweeping lawns and varied European and Australian tree plantings consisting of deciduous English oaks, White Poplar, plane trees, elms, conifers, cedars, turkey oaks, Araucarias and evergreens such as Moreton Bay figs, combined with flower beds of annuals and shrubs.

A network of tree-lined paths provides formal avenues for highlighting the fountains and architecture of the Exhibition building. 

Melbourne Museum

Melbourne Museum is a natural and cultural history museum located in the Carlton Gardens in Melbourne, Australia.

If you are taking tram #96, you stop at the Melbourne Museum (Getrude Street); the place is located adjacent to the Royal Exhibition Building.

The museum entrance cost AUD 15 for adults, with concession card you got to pay half the price.

Melbourne museum is a rich response to Melbourne’s urban condition, and provides a place for education, history, culture and society to engage with each other in a contemporary setting. It has a tropical forest garden and the world’s largest IMAX Theatre screen, which is also part of the museum complex, showing movies and documentary films in large-screen 3-D format.

Moto GP 2018 Melbourne

this is Phillip Island Circuit

The Australian motorcycle Grand Prix is a motorcycling event that is part of the GP racing season. From 1997 to the present day, it is run at the scenic Phillip Island GP circuit; south of Melbourne, Vic.

The only rider to win the 'premier class' race at multiple venues is five-time World Champion Mick Doohand from Australia. He won five consecutive 500cc world championships; Giacomo Agostini with eight (seven consecutive) and Valentino Rossi with seven (five consecutive) have won more premier class titles.

This time Maverick Vinales won the podium of 500cc

Melbourne

Touchdown Melbourne! 

If I have to sum up my holiday here, it is going to be a mile long post. Thus I am just going to posts a few articles here in the blog.

Read more of the story below and enjoy the photos!

Marigold Klungkung

Tagetes Marigold is a genus of annual or perennial, mostly herbaceous plants in the sunflower family (Asteraceae). It was described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1753.

The genus is native to North and South America, but some species have become naturalized around the world.

The name Tagetes is from the name of the Etruscan Tages, born from the plowing of the earth. It likely refers to the ease with which plants of this genus come out each year either by the seeds produced in the previous year, or by the stems which regrow from the stump already in place.

The common name in English, "marigold", is derived from "Mary's gold", a name first applied to a similar plant native to Europe, Calendula officinalis.

The most commonly cultivated varieties of Tagetes are known variously as African marigolds (usually referring to cultivars and hybrids of Tagetes erecta), or French marigolds (usually referring to hybrids and cultivars of Tagetes patula, many of which were developed in France).