Local & City Guides

In collection week, the nature strips in some suburbs start to look like an open-air furniture shop. There’s an armchair outside one house, a bookcase outside the next, and a bike with a flat tyre leaning against a fence. Somewhere along the street, a neighbour is standing beside a pile and asking a fair question. […]

Markets are the original classifieds. You see the item in front of you, you haggle face to face and you carry it home the same morning. Melbourne has a deep market culture, with something on almost every weekend of the year. The trick is knowing which one suits what you want, and that is what […]