Guide to Geelong, Victoria. Includes Geelong attractions, festivals, events and History. Also lonks to Geelong Accommodation, food and restaurants.

Here's a list of vegan wines that are available in New Zealand and probably Australia and possibly the rest of the world.

A British reality television program to be filmed in Australia this winter will force fat children to hunt for food with Aborigines. In 'Fat Kids Can't Hunt' 10 fat youngsters will live with Aboriginal tribesmen in Australia for a month. If they do not eat the bush tucker, they go hungry.

A good summary of Geelong, the Bellarine Peninsula and the Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia. Includes free listings for local businesses and useful accommodation, attraction, food and history links.

Another great review on an Australian travel destination. This article talks about an Australian farm that was developed to find out if food could be grown in Australia for the colonists that were arriving. Great and interesting stuff!

Melbourne (pronounced /ˈmelbən/) is the second most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 3.74 million (2006 estimate). Located around Port Phillip Bay in Australia's south-east, Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria. A person from Melbourne is called a Melburnian.Melbourne is a major centre of commerce, industry and cultural activity. The city is often referred to as Australia's 'sporting and cultural capital' and it is home to many of the nation's most significant cultural and sporting events and institutions. It has been recognised as a gamma world city by the Loughborough University group's 1999 inventory. Melbourne is notable for its mix of Victorian and contemporary architecture, its extensive tram network and Victorian parks and gardens, and its diverse, multicultural society. It was the host city of the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games.Melbourne was founded by free settlers in 1835, 47 years after the first European settlement of Australia, as a pastoral settlement situated around the Yarra River. Transformed rapidly into a major metropolis by the Victorian gold rush in the 1850s, 'Marvellous Melbourne' became Australia's largest and most important city by 1865, but was overtaken by Sydney as the largest city in Australia during the early 20th century. Recent projections predict that Melbourne will be the most populous city in Australia by 2028.Melbourne served as the capital city of Australia from the time of the new nation's federation in 1901, until Federal Parliament moved to the newly purpose-built capital, Canberra, in 1927.