VLOG: Unexpected Weekend At Melbourne Formula 1 Grand Prix
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- The 2024 Australian grand Prix was such an amazing experience! Sadly I couldn't film nearly as much as I wanted to for you guys, which I explain in the video, but visiting Melbourne for the first time in five years was so exciting! This was also the first domestic trip where Mark came with me and it was such a great experience sharing this with him and with all of you. Sometimes I really can't believe that I get to do incredible things like this for CZcams!
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We would like to acknowledge the Darug Nation, the traditional custodians of this land we work on, and pay our respects to the Elders past and present and emerging.
Last time the Child Bride and myself were in Melbin, we stayed at Crown, Southbank. Wasn’t the cheapest, but certainly the best value. Central location, walking distance to most interesting places. We had to visit Elizabeth St, home central for motorcycling. And, Victoria Markets for clothing and cool m/c gear…leather vests etc. Best, absolutely best seafood meal we ever had was in a restaurant in the Crown Complex. Can’t remember the name, expensive AF, but devine, to die for. Sue went overboard shopping at Kelvin Klein store in the Complex, everybody got a pressie on our return.
What is unappreciated is the weather in Melbin, it makes people actually dress decently, and fashionably. Makes a change from stubbies, singlets and flannoes here among the great unwashed in the leafy western outskirts of Brissie.
If you guys need somewhere to lay your heads up here in future, you will be welcome. Cheers, and keep up the great job, you little writer you.
Say gidday to Mark for me, and give that big green Kwaka a hug. Life is too short for bad coffee and crappy chicken burgers.
Kaitlyn, what Mark probably either didn't tell you, or didn't know, about many of the cars being displayed, particularly those from the big three US conglomerates - GM, Ford and Chrysler - was they were made or at least assembled in Australia. So the Chrysler Imperial, Chevrolet Impala, Ford Galaxy, Dodge Phoenix, etc. were made in Australia, GM & Chrysler in South Australia, Ford in Geelong and Melbourne.
Spot On - Dad worked for Chrysler Australia and I worked for GMH - memories, memories...
Your an Aussie, don't ya worry about that mate. Your PR will come through I'm sure. I know its a long, bureaucratic, frustrating, stressful and all consuming, painful process. But it will come soon.
Then you'll be getting your Aussie citizenship before you know it. She'll be right, no worries.
Go for a walk along Fitzroy Street north Carlton. Very artistic and eclectic. Close to the city.
I am so happy that you and Mark had a wonderful time, apart from the rip off food prices.
When I lived in Melbourne I drove around Albert Park lake every day to and from work.
Mark is like the neighbour Wilson from Home Improvements … you only ever see half his face.
The Roulettes are the RAAF aerobatic team. They fly Pilatus PC21.
yeah - real aircraft like F35s are much too expensive to risk on public aerobatic displays. They're probably wrapped in cotton wool somewhere in the NT.
@@pakjohn48nah the Roulettes have always been flown by flying instructors from RAAF East Sale so they have always flown the training aircraft ie Macchi, PC9 and now PC21.
Food at airports, in particular Melbourne Airport, is an absolute rort! I went to Bali about 6 months ago, and before the flight, my Dad and I went to a bar and bought a beer. It was $25 for 2 beers 🤬
I used to live on Queens Road, right across the road from the track. While I was on the ground floor and couldn't see anything, it was fascinating watching the track being set up every year.
10:49 owwwww…….I feel your pain! I had similar just after Christmas; opted for extraction instead of root canal
The RAFF roulettes practice over our lake at our house in eastern vic, always great to watch
RAAF.
a Yank Tank is just an American car, but the term tends to be used for the older, huger ones...No sauce??? dude!! (notice that language cross-pollination)...Melbourne only has one vowel. Say it with me. Melbn
Glad you had a good time in Melbourne. sorry about the tooth! I've had that happen after eating almonds but luckily I was not in middle of watching formula 1 race!
Nice to see a vlog with you outdoors and enjoying yourself. Hopefully see a little more of that even just around Sydney 🙂
Lol at you saying the coffee was bad. Melbourne foll will tell you thats not possible😆. But it is, everywhere has good and bad coffee and food.
Definitely agree re taking your own food and not buying at those types of places. Always overpriced and very average.
And another idea to aboid thr ciffee lines is maybe take a thermal/insulated coffee flask. You can get it filled at a cafe or 7eleven/petrol station etc on the way there.
Are you guys thinking of going to Bathurst? Only about 2.5 hours from Sydney. I think you can get a train there too.
I've been to three F1 races now, all before Drive To Survive made F1 so popular.
I went to Melbourne in 1999 when the V10s were still around, those things sounded amazing. I went to Spa in 2018, and Melbourne again in 2019.
For the first two races, we got general admission tickets and were pretty worn out by the end of it, and finding somewhere to watch on race day at Spa was really hard as the place was absolutely rammed despite it being a huge track in the forest in the middle of nowhere. The tracks are 5-6km long so you can do a lot of walking over the weekend.
For 2019 we got grandstand tickets which were crazy expensive, but now I'm a bit older it's the only way I'd do it again, but getting any kind of ticket these days is really hard, they sell out so quickly now.
Sorry to hear about your Tooth, hopefully you enjoyed the rest of the weekend.
Yank Tank…. Yank is an Aussie slang term for Americans back in WW2…. Short for Yankie Doodle Dandy. And you know what a Tank is. So a Yank Tank is an American car that is massively oversized and weighs several ton, very slow even though it has a large block V8 powering it. Something you may describe as a land yacht in the US. Not that I’m a car person… I’m just old and remember these things… all the best from Melbourne Australia.
Omg you where in same location as we where lol. We was located in front of the screen. Probably seen you haha!
The house I grew up in had red glass tile blocks in the bathroom. It lets natural light in but obscures vision, and IMO looks good achitecturally.
I don't get the attraction of motor racing. I saw an interview on TV with a racing enthusiast and he said, "I like the noise, I like the smell..." and I thought "So, a race car is a 250 mile an hour FART?!"
There was over 4 million people there over the 4 days!
Wow! What a great vid. Your matching outfits were pretty cute! ❤
Definitely kinda jealous of kinda Australian Kaitlyn. Great VLog it was fun to watch, was jealous not only of the cars but the Chicken Parma and especially the Lemon Meringue Tart. 😀
8.12 Swanston street. Its where ACDC in 1975 filmed the iconic long way to the top music video..
Apart from your tooth problem it looked like a nice weekend away. And yes, stay away from that GP tucker, BYO like you did is the way to go.
Very nice travelog, Kaitlyn. I can see you out a lot of effort into puting this together.
It might be fun, on your return, to go back to Albert Park, and see it without all the added stuff, fences & buildings and such, and see if you can see the same view point from this one.
The pits, are the only building left there of course.
I hope your mouth gets better soon.
🫂 ~Melbourne
We were over at turn 2, the crowd was so rowdy when Verstappen retired.
If you ever return to Melbourne your CZcams followers would love to meet up with you and your husband
, say rooftop bar in the city. I think they would happily host you for the entire trip.
Well put together Vlog. I hope you’re over the dental pain.
Just remember the old saying, you go and VISIT SYDNEY but YOU DEFINITELY WOULD WANT TO LIVE IN MELBOURNE. I hope Melb looked after you.
Glass bricks, light in and still have privacy. Been used here since the 1970's at least, style thing but practical at the same time.
My younger son is a F1 TRAGIC! In 2019 I bought us two tickets and gold passes, paid them off in three paymentis, booked flights and hotel. Arranged leave from work and school. Come March 2020 and we were on our way! He had been talking about nothing else for months. So we get on the plane, this thing called Corona virus was starting to be a concern. I had-been checking the F1 website, but it confirmed it was going ahead as normal... Still, before take off I bought travel insurance (useless, as it turned out). As we landed in Melbourne, it was announced that the whole show was cancelled. You've never seen a more disappointed 15 year old... Tickets were refunded at least. Anyway, sorry about your root canal, but glad you and Mark enjoyed yourselves, (shit expensive chicken burgers notwithstanding)!
I take it the sausage roll was no good huh?....the look on your face lol.❤
The RAAF Roulettes are based in Sale Victoria. The RAAF hasn't had any fighter jet displays down there for a few years now.....hopefully they will return next year because the show is awesome.
Nice video Kaitlyn. I’m sorry to hear about the root canal
I found your reaction to the airline sausage roll funny. How can anyone stuff up a sausage roll?
Onya Mark 😂👍🏻
did you see one of the historic cars set itself on fire? That was my mate Matt. (He wasn't hurt and the damage wasn't serious)
Whoo Hoo !!!
Nice vlog Kaitlin, you're a fragile thing aren't you haha, jokes. I love F1, I went to every Adelaide F1 GP (started in 85), the first 2 in Melbourne, went to Silverstone and Singapore in 2014 and back to Melbourne last year. Didn't go this year because I'm saving up to head to England to see a mate who's 2 beautiful daughters, I'm grateful to be the godfather of named Imola and Senna....those names would ring a bell to any F1 fan.
Last year though I reckon I spent about 2-250 bucks a day on Heinekens lol, what a rip off. I was staying with a mate who lived just outside the City, and some ubers and Taxi's were trying to charge us 250 bucks to take us the 38kms it was to get home, they'd all turned their meters off and it was a bartering system, totally fkn illegal!!!
If you plan to go to the F1 next year, buy your tickets as early as you can afford it, and buy seats in the stand at a good corner instead of on the straight. You get to actually see the drivers and not just a blur, and no fence in the way. I would choose Grandstand Piquet if I was going. I went when it was in Adelaide every year until they moved it to Melbourne. Very different drivers back then! Piquet, Prost, Mansell, Johansson, and the very dishy Christian Danner who has aged very well, like a smooth red wine! 😜. Piquet was my driver though!
Didnt even know the F1 race was on
Neither did l and l live in Melbourne lol
Thanks for another excellent VLog Caitlyn. Top sheila 🥰 (did I hear correctly you referring to a Chevy-Chrysler? Maybe youv've been away from home too long)
they should use the Commando 450 showerhead
Hello. You made it to Melbourne. Nice one it was a great race. Plus haveing the supper cars race to. Go shell Racing team. Shaw you enjoyed the day. It was a lovely sunny day for it. Albert Park lake is nice spot ..thay youst. To have the Fier works. Sky show their. Back in late 80 s Orly 90 s. But. Got rid of it .due. To Manny. Younger youth hanging out in groups an doing dum stuff . It was a family type event .with lots of car their. An every car. Had the music bumping. To the music a set. Radio station played. To the. Rhythm of the. Fier works. Going of at same time. .
“The Roulettes are the Royal Australian Air Force's aerobatic display team. They were established in 1970 following the success of earlier teams, the Red Sales and Telstars.
Roulette displays are flown all around Australia and consist of a number of manoeuvres flown in various formations at low level. They are an extension of formation, aerobatics, low level flying, and airmanship skills, taught to Air Force pilots and developed throughout their career.
The Roulettes fly as low as 250 feet (80m) at speeds of up to 370 knots (685km/h) and pilots can experience up to 6 ‘G', or 6 times, the force of gravity during a display. Flying as close as three metres apart, the team showcases the level of visual judgement and hand-eye coordination that pilots in the Air Force are able to achieve.
Roulette pilots are Qualified Flying Instructors who work at the Central Flying School, based at RAAF Base East Sale in Victoria. Between displays, they teach other Air Force pilots to become instructors.”
IMHO the best pizza in Melbourne is in Lygon street in Carlton, the home of basically any Italian food .
I worked as a courier in Melbourne for 20+ years from when Albert park was being built for the new track, what a pain in the ass for when they started closing the park to ready the place for the GP, the week before and after it was a traffic nightmare.
Back in the pre turbo days you could here the cars in Fitzroy, north of the city, and in the CBD the sound would echo around the buildings, they sounded so cool.
If you want to take photos outside a room at night, just turn off the lights in the room and voila! No more reflections!
The GP all 3 days sold out last November. 440,000 people. Accommodation at 95% occupancy.
That's why Melbourne gets all the major events/tours and is the arts, sports, culture capital; even second string sports in Melbourne like NRL get bigger crowds than Sydney.
Australian Open. MotoGP. Biggest cricket, soccer, rugby test crowds.. AFL Finals - 4 weeks in a row, different teams it sells out 100k seats. Then sells out Grand Final day. A few years ago Grand Final was a draw snd replayed the following weekend. Sold out again.
Biggest art gallery in NGV that draws major international exchange exhibitions from the Louvre, Reichmuseum, Metropole, Hermitage, JP Getty like Monet, Van Gogh, Renoir, Impressionists. antiquities from Egypt. Soon Melbourne will have a matching modern art museum.
Twice as many theatre seats as Sydney. Taylor Swift - 3 nights at the MCG, 90k per show. She could have sold out 10 nights based on attempts to purchase tickets.
Appartment accomodation east of CBD is good value walking distance to trams or city, near beautiful parks. City block has 60-70 restaurants of every persuasion from fine dining to cheap and cheerful great food. Thats not inckuding dining strips in Fitzroy, Collingwood, Carlton, Richmond. Italian, Spanish, Greek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Uyghur, Indonesian, indian, French, Japanese.
Were the sausage rolls not nice? Or were they in need of some tomato sauce love?
If you bought coffee in melbourne and it wasn’t good, name and shame. We won’t stand for bad coffee in melbourne. We have an international reputation to uphold! lol
Doesn't matter if you're at the F1, MotoGP, Aussie rules or rugby league the food and drink is always exie and average tasting at best
All that packing and you forgot to take a new set of teeth. Looks like it was a nice trip.
was this you first time in Melbourne, can't remember sorry.
Sorry you had to have dental work done on your weekend away, always sucks
Sorry. Teeth don't get in the way of motor sport, especially motorcycle. Should have toughed it out. (joke)
Don't bother with these go carts. Go to Bathurst and watch a REAL race, the best in the world!.
lol Supercars filled in time until the big boys raced. Bathurst is garbage.
@@geoffmaloney2717
Mt Panorama is the best track in the country and probably top 5 on the planet.
@@AUmarcusit's rubbish
Grew up watching the bogan mobiles as a kid until I eventually grew up and graduated to F1 and WEC Prototype.
Airline food all tastes like crap, mass produced sausage rolls are arguably the worst of the bakery type foods, made for the lowest possible cost ,minimal actual sausage meat and tonnes of filler which is usually just bread crumbs . Wouldnt feed them to my worst enemies dog
Yank tank is just the big american cars
Doesn't sound as nice as the old V8's and V10's sounded.
Do you like watching paint dry? Watching cars drive around in circles would bore me witless.
Melbourne blows
You have a right to have that opinion