For bookings, please telephone the U3A office (9821 0282)
to express your interest in participation.
For further queries, please contact Joan Harding or Collette Flynn [phone numbers are in your December 2008 Newsletter].
Payment is due 21 days prior to tour date, unless stated otherwise.
Immerse yourself in Indian culture with the tour which was featured in the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival 2010. A guide will introduce you to the groceries, fashion, Bollywood and customs of India. We will conclude with an Indian banquet.
Please wear comfortable shoes. Note that you may wish to visit the Dandenong Market afterwards for some affordable clothing and food purchases (open until 4 pm).
Time: 10.15 am for a 10.30 am start
Transport: Own arrangements (Dandenong Railway station only 300 metres from meeting point)
Cost: $35 including lunch
Where Meet at Roshan‘s Fashions, 69-71 Foster Street, Dandenong.
Join a guided tour to see Guilfoyle‘s Volcano which was built in 1876 and was used to store water for Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. After lying idle for 60 years, it is now restored as part of a significant landscape development project.
Cost: $12
Time: 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm concluding at the garden tearooms for optional afternoon tea.
Departure point: Gate D (enter via Birdwood Avenue)
Transport: Own arrangements (parking in Anderson Street or Birdwood Avenue)
Limit: 20
Full payment due upon booking at the U3A office.
Visit ‘Woodlands’ historic mansion and park, the home of retired racehorses now brought back here into the public eye. A tour of the property will be followed by morning tea in the homestead.
We then drive to Sunbury for lunch and then proceed to the famous Rupertswood Mansion, which was built in 1874 for Sir William John Clarke. It became an important centre for Melbourne‘s early social life. Invited guests arrived by train from Spencer Street to Rupertswood‘s dedicated railway siding to attend grand balls and their famous cricket matches. It was here that the great sporting rivalry between England and Australia began with the ‘Burning of the Ashes’.
Cost: $65 per person
Departure point: U3A Sinclair Avenue, Glen Iris at 9.00 am sharp
Return: U3A at approximately 5.00 pm
Limit: 48
Inclusions: Coach transportation, morning tea, lunch, & entry fees
Full payment due on, or before Friday 22 October at the U3A office.
Excursion Co-ordinator: Joan Harding
