A 50m swimming pool in an inner city suburb. Clean, warm, big change areas, great coffee and snacks and the chance to swim under the eucalypts.

Love this city!

Prahan, off Malvern Road, just near Prahan market

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A play space for kids and adults. Hidden in the slightly dingy suburb of St Kilda is this crazy secret place full of climbing frames, trampolines, flying foxes and other contraptions to fire the imagination.

Off Robe Street, follow the signs, St Kilda

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A great space to pass the time and read the paper. Brilliant coffee, delicious food, interesting clientele. Converts into a club after hours.

Chapel Street, Windsor end
+61 3 9529 1644

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A club that is everything from a dj space to a trance room to a pool table to a cafe to a bar and back to a crazy dance night. Always feels like everyone's welcome whilst maintaining a very cool vibe.

Chapel Street, Windsor end

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A wine bar that opens at 10 pm and stays open till the early hours of the morning. Go through the tiny doorway and up the rickety stairs to find a cosy space filled with old couches, low lighting, amazing staff and a wine list as long as a novel. Check the view from the end window across town.

On Spring Street, near the corner of Bourke Street

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A small lane in the city filled with great cafes, boutique shops and amazing graffitti. Personal favourite is Degraves Cafe which makes arguably the best cafe latte in the world.

Off Flinders Street, between Swanston and Elizabeth Streets.

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A working farm on the Yarra River in inner-city Collingwood. A beautiful space where you and your kids can get really close to nature and learn things in a friendly educational environment. Great cafe and weekend market, great way for kids to get their hands dirty.

Right on the river in Collingwood.

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A terrific bookshop filled with interesting books, music, journals and informative, helpful staff. Ask for Dave Clarke, he knows his stuff.

Lygon St, Carlton

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An old kosher butcher converted into one of the best cafes in a city full of great cafes. Unusual architecture by local group, 6 Degrees. Great staff who maintain their cool despite the hordes of mothers and babies. Great eatable food and some of the best coffee in town. And then there's that indefinable something that makes it so groovy. All the best things about Melbourne summed up in one small cafe.

Nelson St, East St Kilda, off Carlisle St, opposite the railway station.

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