The market, the wine and the chocolates

After done The Great Ocean Road trip, the remaining days can be used to explore the city area and its surrounding. One of the must-visit places is Queen Victoria Market. The market offers a variety of fruit and vegetables, meat, poultry and seafood, gourmet and deli foods. We tried the seafood platter in one of the stalls. The market also has diverse range of clothing and souvenir. The following day we took a trip to Yarra Valley, where one can take wine tasting course. For the children, they can have chocolate tasting course and ice cream tasting.

The signage of the market

Queen Victoria Market offers clean shopping environment.

Seafood platter

Wine tasting

Chateau Yering

The main building of Chateau Yering

Ice cream....

Chocolate tasting

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