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Things to do in the holiday season – Puffing Billy
Here, in Australia, it’s also school holidays – the summer period. And so I intend highlighting places to visit in my region for readers, should you be looking for somewhere to visit or something to...
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Holiday Season – Emerald
As well as catching the Puffing Billy to Emerald, you can drive there. It’s a scenic drive along the Belgrave-Hallam Road in the Dandenong Ranges region. Once there you can visit the model train...
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Holiday Season – Gembrook
A bit further up the road from Emerald is Gembrook, where the Puffing Billy stops and then makes its return trip to Belgrave via Emerald. Again, a lovely drive through the Dandenong Ranges region....
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Holiday Season – Lilydale Lake Park
Looking further in the Dandenong Ranges and moving towards the Yarra Valley, you’ll find the Lilydale Lake and Park. Lovely place to take your family. Room to play games, to go for walks or runs, to...
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Holiday season – Grant’s Picnic Ground
Grant’s picnic ground is in Kallista, and is part of Sherbrooke Forest. To get to it you need to drive through Belgrave up Monbulk Road, or through Monbulk and down Monbulk Road. It’s just near the...
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Holiday Season – visit some gardens
There’s a lot of gardens to visit in the Dandenong Ranges. You could pick almost any major road and see a sign leading to a garden to visit. Alfred Nicholas gardens is just out of Kallista heading up...
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Holiday Season – more gardens
Cloudehill is another wonderful garden to visit – but it’s more than that. It’s also a nursery and has a cafe where they cook their own produce from their magnificent vegetable garden. A must see all...
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Holiday Season – another garden
I’m actually going to take you away from the Dandenong Ranges (shock! horror!) and encourage you to head south to the Cranbourne Botanical Gardens. My husband I visited there for the first time last...
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Holiday Season – Lysterfield Lake Park
One of my favourite places to visit. Literally only 10 mins from where we live but it’s not a long hike from the city of Melbourne either. Lysterfield Lake Park is popular for so many reasons:...
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