A Wednesday Walk with my friend Rose from France

Hello there, everyone in the Wednesday what Community.

I hope you are well this week and having an amazing and safe time where ever in the world you are and what are you doing!

And ofcourse, I can’t go past my greetings without waving to @tattoodjay over there in the USA and say thank you For creating this community for us to share our #WednesdayWalks with each other around the world and if you’d like to join in, please click on this link it to find out how. created/hive-155530

So I couple of weeks ago, I spent the week sick with Covid or some old-fashioned equivalent of it self isolation for a week and worked from home.

At the tail end, I had a wonderful friend arrive from France, who stayed with me for two days, which lucky enough coincided with my two days off work, so on the first day, she took pity on me and cooked me up some traditional savoury, French crêpes for breakfast as I had only been living on soup for the previous week.

And of course Indy had to jump in and make sure those traditional French crêpes were up to scratch before I could eat them.

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And apparently they were pretty good, so good that I had to wait my turn before she let me eat any!

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Then after breakfast, we wandered into the CBD as we both had to run some errands.

On the way, I took many photos of Rose so she could send them back home to her family and friends in France and show off Melbourne!

So we started off at Flinders St station,

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The walked up past the historic Melbourne Town Hall...

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Then across the usually bustling Bourke St Mall...

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Then past the popular State Library of Victoria

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Then found the post office as I had to post some of Mum's vintage patterns that I had sold on Ebay.

https://www.ebay.com.au/usr/chocolatescorpi

Then after posting off the patterns, we walked up and wandered through the gorgeous green of Carlton Gardens and past the stunning Queens Exhibition Building

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And then up to Trades Hall, which is one of the oldest buildings n Melbourne and one that has supported the workers, the minority groups, the underdogs, the artists, and every one involved in improving others lives in one way or another since the 1800's.

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My Comfortable old friend, Trades Hall has seen people tread up and down its worn bluestone stairs from every class and every corner of this world for over 150 years- including me everyday from 2005- 2010... as I had to go there to deliver posters for my good friend Nicole from San Fransisco who is Creator and Producer at Estrella Suerte productions for the digital audio play called, The Forever Wave set in San Francisco for the Melbourne Fringe Festival in October Inspired by Dylan Thomas’ iconic Under Milk Wood, The Forever Wave is set in a drowned San Francisco, circa 2070.

Combining geography, climate science, Bay Area history, and an assemblage of voices—survivors and dead alike—

So if you want to listen to something unique, underground and immersive, the click on this link here to find out how..https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/the-forever-wave/

And her below is a rep from the Melbourne Fringe festival collecting the posters off me...

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So after we dropped off the posters, we wandered back into town, but not before we left Trades Hall and met Zelda

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And who was Zelda I hear you ask (like we did....🤣..)

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Zelda D'Aprano was a community activist for decades, in particular campaigning for equal pay for women.

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And a women that felt so strongly about equal pay for women, that she not once, but twice chained herself to doors in protest to the court dismissing the case against equal pay...
https://www.vic.gov.au/zelda-daprano-ao

And then after thanking Zelda for her efforts, we walked past the Old Law courts

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And down to Melbourne Central for dinner as we were pretty hungry and I had some discount restaurant vouchers

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Then we decided to walk through Malboune central as it was cold outside and found that mot of the shops had closed so enjoyed the peace and quiet

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Eventually we had to go outside and found this gorgeous little hidden delight full of people enjoying food surrounded by history.

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And then arrived back out onto Bourke St Mall again, this time under the starry lights at the other end

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And then kept walking towards home where I found the Turkish Lamp shop @chocolatescorpi/my-dazzling-turkish-lamp-adventure

And then after trying to decide which lamp I wanted to make...

We arrived back at another entrance to Flinders St Station

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Then across the Yarra River

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And then soon we were home after a fantastic day out seeing the sights and getting stuff done.

So I would love to thank my dear friend Rose for being the star of my walk with you today and for taking me out to discover more of my own beautiful city to share with her and you on this wonderful #wednesdayWalk

I hope you two had a wonderful walk and discovered some new things about the city that you love with some wonderful family and friends too!

Thank you so much for reading my post , I really hope that you enjoyed it and look forward to your comments and thoughts.

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