Royal Melbourne Show

The taste of Victoria is an amazing asset to the show! Allowing you to try a variety of wines ciders and cheeses. With beer classes allowing you to sample while get describe the element of the beer. Defiantly good for a Sunday sesh

In the spring school holidays each year, the Showgrounds in Flemington play host to the event they were built for — The Royal Melbourne Show. This year was my first visit as an adult. As a kid, the show was always about going on the scariest rides (the more upside downtime the better) and trying to con your mum to by you the most expensive, junk filled show bag available, then eating all the chocolate at once then having a sugar-​hangover for days afterwards.
This time I did everything but scary rides and sugar. I spent most of my day visiting different types of four-​legged friends — cows, sheep, dogs, cats and ALPACAS! I’d never seen an alpaca in the flesh before and I fell in love. They are the strangest little cuties in the farmyard, with thick wooly legs finished off by disproportionately tiny hooves, making them look like chubby girls wearing stilettos.
Another highlight was the Country Women’s Association café — it has all the old school sweets you would expect. I did look at the rides and walk through the show bag hall, but as an adult it all seems like a waste of money. After much persuasion from my friend I did fork out $ 8 to go on the Giant Skywheel (a fancy name for the ferris wheel) which afforded awesome views across the city and out as far as Mount Dandenong, but I’m still not sure it was worth eight bucks. Still, ‘The Show’ is a novel way to spend a day and by the crazed excitement of kids there, an absolute treat for the under-​twelves.