Toni Frazer

Shacky currently offers 3 locations in Victoria as of February 2020: one in Ocean Grove – on the stunning Bellarine Peninsula; another in the Yarra Valley – surrounded by the best of Victoria’s wine country; and lastly in the Grampians – a perfect region for nature lovers to explore. You can roll it out to use it and sit on the wooden boxes which sit inside the Shacky to offer more sitting space when eating, or even cooking. If you are wanting to get away from the world for a moment, be surrounded by nature or just have a romantic staycation outside Melbourne, then the Shacky Yarra Valley delivers all of this and more. Only essential and non-personal cookies are set when you first visit this site, but by continuing to use this site, we will set some non-essential cookies.

In order to get the bonus interest on your savings account, and to have your Everyday debit account card work as fee free anywhere in the world, you do need to transfer $1000 AUD into the everyday bank account from an external account, and make 5 transactions each month. I use a different pre-loading card as you’ll see below, but if I didn’t use this, I would be getting the Citibank Global Wallet for sure based on my number crunching on my best travel cards article I mentioned earlier. If I was to convert $100 with Citibank Global it would be a rate of 0.6729 or $67.29 USD; $672.90 USD for $1000 AUD – a loss of $7.61 USD compared to Transferwise. If I was to convert $100 AUD with Travel Money Oz it would be a rate of 0.6566 or $65.66 USD; $656.66 USD for $1000 AUD –

The cafes listed aren’t always the ones which make it onto “Melbourne’s Best Coffee” lists by Timeout and Broadsheet. Brother Bada Budan is more coffee shop than large scale cafe, but they are a worthy choice when it comes to coffee. Duke’s Coffee Roasters decor is simple but modern, with light wood finishings being a central theme. Tusk is a great restaurant which caters not only to the coffee crowd, but to Chapel Street’s bustling cafe and nightlife scene.

In fact, as of March 2019 – I have been booked up until the end of November right now with 7 different house sits locked in, which pretty much see me house sitting more than living with my parents for the remainder of 2019. House prices have skyrocketed due to foreign investment and overall demand, which means unless you got into the housing market 5-10 years ago, owning a house in a city like Melbourne or Sydney is not an easy feat unless you have a second income to rely on. I work full time in Melbourne’s suburban south east, so as long as I can travel to and from work each day, I can pretty much explore a wide variety of Melbourne’s most interesting and often unknown – even to me, suburbs. Given my work location, I can be house or pet sitting in Melbourne’s CBD, and then hit up the bayside areas of Melbourne along the Mornington Peninsula.