Hi! This website is a set of audio tours of local places and things in Melbourne, Australia.


Tour guides are let loose to choose both the topic and audience of their tour.

Most tours are of places in that have special meaning for their tour guides. Places people go to find quiet, places that inspire daydreaming, places where they do their grocery shopping. And some tours take us onto more abstract terrain – tours of attitudes, of fictional characters from another era, of laughter.

About half of the tours cater for a specific or niche audience on a hunch that we’re not all the same: you will find a tour for people with anxiety, a tour for people who want to see live local music and a tour for people scared to go north of Bell Street.

There is one thing that all the tours have in common - people telling stories. Have a listen...

A tour of rock for people looking for live music

A tour of rock for people looking for live music

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Are you a first-time visitor to Melbourne looking for local live music?
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Geek sleek chique tour of places to hide in Brunswick

Geek sleek chique tour of places to hide in Brunswick

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Brunswick local before-it-got-trendy Francesca Sculli on quiet places to hide in this busily gentrifying neighbourhood.
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A tour of Merri Creek for people looking for inner city peace

A tour of Merri Creek for people looking for inner city peace

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A stretch of the Creek that Lucy Foley knows intimately, from eight years of walking her dog Nico.
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A tour of Coburg for people scared to go north of Bell Street

A tour of Coburg for people scared to go north of Bell Street

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Do you live in Melbourne’s inner north but have never crossed Bell Street?
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A tour outside my comfort zones for people with anxiety

A tour outside my comfort zones for people with anxiety

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Jules takes us to the places that frankly freak her out.
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