Ideas Please,My mammy is coming to Visit

Princess_N

Hi Guys, My mam is coming over for a few weeks and she is staying for 7 weeks, I work full time so time off will be an issue, We are planning to do the great ocean road, and a weekend in Sydney. Can anyone give me some ideas on things around Melbourne (or anywhere in VIC I dont mind driving) that we can do, I want to show her a good time but obviously getting time off work is hard, i can probably take a few long weekends but not much more than that,

Thanks

Zambia

Eureka Skydeck

Boat Ride along the Yarra

myflipflops

Yarra valley for a wine tour.

Even if she is not a drinker, it is a beautiful part of the world.

Cooperspale

All of the above and
Ballarat, there's the Eureka stockade exhibition and Sovereign Hill there also.
Phillip Island for penguin parade
Wilson's Prom, if you like nature walks.
Warburton, Warrandyte, Sassafrass: small towns with boutique ish stores and cafes.
The various arcades and laneways in the city.
NGV, Melbourne museum, Old Gaol.
Willamstown, just across the Westgate but feels much further away.
Dromana, Rye, Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula. Red Hill just a bit inland has some nice wineries and places for food and fruit.
If you're going the Great Ocean Road, stretch it out to include Koroit on the way back. It has old Irish links going back to famine times.
Check out Dunkeld if you are going to the Grampians, it has galleries and a great restaurant in the Royal Mail Hotel, if you can get in.

Pugins

Depending on what she is into the following are worth considering:
Royal Botanical Gardens, they do an Aboriginal Heritage Walk too
National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne Museum
Immigration Museum
Frankston Sand Sculptures
Chadstone Shopping Centre
City Circle Tram
Colonial Tramcar Restaurant

Princess_N

Thanks guys, Some great ideas there. Need to start planning now

Gossipgal

Groupon have a voucher for the Yarra Valley Wine tour at the moment in case you were looking at that - link below. Have never been to know if it's good but a group of us have bought the voucher to go later in March http://www.groupon.com.au/deals/melbourne/apt/715982886

Princess_N

Thanks