Lovely people, lovely place: Prince Albert, Williamstown

Fran, were she to be a character in a computer game a la Tekken or Soul Blade, would reward gamers who unlock her special move by pressing X-A-A-UP-L2-B-B-DOWN-LEFT-CIRCLE CLOCKWISE-A-B-hold L1-X by taking both sets of house keys with her to work and leaving said gamer locked in their house for the day.

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Only in Melbourne: Scottish tapas, graffiti, B-boys, boatyard blues and High Vibes

Moments later, the young girl by now carried to the relative safety of nearby shrubbery by her friends, a skinhead in a red hoodie approached the same bench at speed, leapt over it performing a somersault, mistimed his landing and careered into a row of parked bicycles. Half an hour later he was back pretending to be a dog and giving someone’s black labrador the time of his life. Welcome to Northcote’s High Vibes festival.

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Williamstown

You’re not going to stumble on Willy by mistake. Even falling asleep on a late night train isn’t going to do it as you’ll get turfed out at Newport, but it’s worth making the effort to this mini-peninsula in Hobson’s Bay.

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