We return to Sydney Road for brunch, at the coffee roasters where our current hosts get their beans. The food is incredible. Read the coffee blog. Our first stop this morning is the gold museum in the Old Treasury Building. Here we hoped to fill the gaps in our knowledge: how the gold was found, how the gold licences worked, when the Chinese workers came, and the Lambing Flat riot. None of this gets a mention. Instead we are told again that it was a hard place to...

A sit down affair in a very busy warehouse that has artily been painted black. It's all black. Very cool. Long wait for coffee though, and for brunch service. Not so great... 12 mins in the end. Hmm. The coffee was solid, if not spectacular. Served at the perfect temperature, it was a lovely single flavour jobby. What stood out however, WAS THE INCREDIBLE FOOD. We're not doing a proper brunch blog, but if we did, this effort would have probably sailed int...

Slow start, coffee on Lygon Street. Not quite as edgy as yesterday's Sydney street, but a good effort never the less! Coffee and shared brunch - scrambled eggs with pesto and feta. Oh my days. This is essentially the Melbourne way. And we love it! Finally leaving at 12.00, we hop on a tram into the CBD. We visit the Shrine of Remembrance which is near Carlton. It's a huge, bombastic structure that is rather hard to comprehend fully. It's similar to Sy...

A cool, quirky cafe, which had adopted a chap called Luke, who was attempting to sell his handmade chopping boards to each customer. This coffee was another hug in a mug. While hugging you, it whispers "Go on, get out there. You can do it. I believe in you." in your ear. It's a very friendly, encouraging sort of coffee.Larger than a standard small flat white, although it hadn't become a latte. It still had all the components of a flat white, with strength...

A coffee cuddle in a mug. Procured from a particularly artsy establishment in the heart of Brunswick (the 'edgy' part of Melbourne according to our guide book), we got a superb flat white. Served at a perfect temperature, it was a monotone flavour, without much of a journey, but it was a lovely flavour. Not so creamy, but perfectly milky, it was gentle but packed a caffeine punch. Alex liked it so that he bought a second for the road. (This was less tasty...