The Economist Intelligence Unit's 2011 Livability Ranking has placed Australia's Melbourne city as the most livable city in the world, with a score of 97.5. Austria's Vienna and Canada's Vancouver were ranked on the second and third places respectively among 140 cities. Source: www.economist.com
For those of you who haven't been to Melbourne and are wondering why it won, here are a few snaps from my trip last Christmas.
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| Melbourne City View from South Bank (January 2011) |
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| Eureka Tower at South Bank - a new addition since my last visit |
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| The Palais at St Kilda - and that's Luna Park in the background |
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| Mentone Beach - lying on a beach towel (it was 26C and deserted, far too cold for the locals!) |
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| Hamer Hall? The Greatest Show On Earth? What a tribute! |
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| Love is in the Air - The Myer Melbourne Christmas Windows featured The Nutcracker Suite last year |
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| The best chips on the planet (yes chips, not crisps..bloody Poms!) - Burger Rings and Twisties! |
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| Harrods from the top deck of the number 14 bus, a regular drive-by after a night out on the town |
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| Tower of London - it was just there for the taking |
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| View of the Thames from Putney Bridge (from another bus) |
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| Richmond Park - splendor in the grass and right next door |
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| Another delicate sunset - from the front window of my flat |
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| The ice and snow last December - from my (then) office building |
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| Footprints in the snow - where I've been |
The first is the one left behind laced with nostalgic and happy rememberings.
And the second is the one where I am quietly proud of the new life I have built for myself. The one where, despite it's lower ranking, I feel like I've come home.
6 comments:
God, now I want some Twisties. Or Burger Rings. And maybe a ticket back home!
Five pictures of london and no rain - do you work for the tourist board?
I've always fancied visiting Australia, even though you call crisps chips, but I can't do long flights.
Isn't it wonderful that you now have two fabulous places to call slightly different versions of 'home'? Lucky, lucky you!
(Love the photos, especially the snow at night time)
Thanks Linda - yes it is.
Would you believe that the 'snow at night' one was taken at about 7am walking to the bus stop to go to work last December?
Charlie, I'm just a glass half full kinda gal. Melbourne has plenty of rubbish weather too but it didn't seem right to focus on the bad things.
VW, a work colleague tried to convince me that Twisties were just like Nik Nax.
I begged to differ!
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