Is This Melbournes’ Coolest Neighbourhood? First Time Exploring Collingwood | Australia🇦🇺

[@jeffo5976]

Absolutely loving your filming of Melbourne. Left when I was a teenager. It's bringing back memories. Who would have thought an Irishman and German lady here as tourists could provoke so many memories for me. Your commentary and filming is a credit to you. Look forward to seeing more. Thank you

[@shaundgb7367]

You two are both funny characters, without even trying.

[@lynnmoses3563]

Love how we're getting to see a lot of suburbs we wouldnt get to see visiting Melbourne..My daughter and grandchildren live in Melbourne, and I lived there myself for a few years, but Ive never seen Collingwood or a number of suburbs youve shown in your videos..Its great we get to see these, so many thanks for taking us with you.....Absolutely love the place...

[@AndrewBellsWorld]

Great to see you in my neighbourhood. Hope you enjoyed your time here.

[@Teejayhaych28]

Melbourne had a huge italian and greek migration after the 2nd world war hence the strong coffee and food/cafe culture

[@BenjiLewisMusic]

That last cafe you went to is where I’ve lived before, great area. Plug Nickel is somewhere to check out in Collingwood for coffee. INI for matcha around there. Favourite matcha spot all round is Hikari in the cbd. Tori’s is also worth seeing. Market Lane Coffee at Vic Markets, quality. So good to see you enjoying it all, it is a good city. P.S - also if you haven’t already, visit little Italy on Lygon street in Carlton. Main place to go see there is Brunettis 😌 love it A cafe called Good Measure on Lygon street in Carlton is also very cool Canning street in Carlton north is really nice to walk along, between cross streets Pigdon and Curtain

[@stopbunsen]

It's great you are visiting the inner suburbs. When I saw your video in the CBD, I hoped you would venture out. Many tourists just stick to the CBD and miss out. The CBD is great but Melbourne really shines in the suburbs and we have many with their own character and culture.

[@DJSinisterMetal]

My grandparents raised 5 kids in Collingwood, cool to see you feature it :)

[@georgiacoombes699]

Love your tour of Collingwood & Fitzroy, I hate the graffiti all over the old buildings, makes them very much like a slum but I love the proper murals! ❤️❤️

[@UtopiaBlue68]

These videos are really great, I left Melbourne after living there for my 2nd time in 2019 it's unfortunate they missed seeing the Abbotsford Convent and the animal farm and I am sadly aware that "Lentils As Anything" closed their restaurants during the pandemic which used to be a really great place.

[@rexringschott]

Good on you for exploring these unique parts of Melbourne.

[@JohnSmith-cu8yc]

Fun fact for you Glen, the Duke of Wellington (who beat Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo) was born in DUUUUUUBLIN!!

[@carolcarol3938]

Loving what you're doing around Melbourne...SO MUCH to explore. Collingwood children's farm and the Abbotsford Convent; Fairfield Boathouse and on and on

[@professornuke7562]

Collingwood was always a tough, working class suburb until the 1990's. Their football team supporters were notorious. There's an old joke about you know Toothpaste was invented by a magpies supporter, or otherwise it would be called Teethpaste. Most of those red commons (ie common housebrick) were made in another now very trendy part of Melbourne.....Brunswick. The old brick kilns are still there, but incorporated into a weird housing estate. Just North of Brunny is Coburg. I was born there, raised a family there, my parents lived there, and my Grandfathers worked there. Mum's Dad was chief warder at old Bluestone College (HM Prison Pentridge). Go check Brunswick and Coburg out. If you liked Collingwood, they're even better.

[@BreaktheTrend]

Nice post and worth doing the pentridge tour if you're out that way too. I always remember one of my fave protests ever came from Coburg locals putting up a fight to prevent the Bell St Coburg Macca's from being built using the slogan "the only burgers we want around here are Coburgers". 😅. Well a lot has changed since that protest all those years ago!

[@mjames4709]

So you're from a family of screws?

[@peterjetnikoff]

This is my neighbourhood. Always good to see it from the point of view of people new to it. Thanks. :)

[@bramba1953]

The hotel you were in front of (Grace Darling" was where Collingwood football club was formed in 1982 the most famous Australian Rules club.

[@RussellEdwards-l7d]

Bit of a typo - Collingwood was formed in 1892

[@dantem5228]

Smith St is unreal. One of the best banh mi in Melbourne too at N Lee Bakery!

[@triarb5790]

Used to have that fantastic taqueria ,only place my Mexican relos would eat Mexican in Melbourne ( rest is sht Tex mex). Thinks it's gone now.

[@georgecurrenti]

I grew up and live in Melbourne… travelled quite often on the tram through Smith Street years ago when studying and working in the CBD. Back then I wouldn’t dare get off and walk around Collingwood. It seems to have come a long way now and improved. Thank you for showing this. If you like art, should visit Montsalvat which is located in the Melbourne suburb of Eltham, 25Km from CBD.

[@mrd4785]

There are a few old high streets in Melbourne like the one in Collingwood. These tend to be around the oldest suburbs that still have tram lines. The city has grown out of sight though, so the majority of the rest of the city is quite different and you can sort of tell when parts of it were built as the city expanded by the age of the homes and the design. A lot of these areas have big shopping centres and/or town centres, with parks and other facilities distributed amongst them. There are usually suburbs nearby that are designated as mostly commercial or light industrial, so people tend to shop there, rather than come all the way into the city for things. People also drive their cars more in these areas, as there is less efficient public transport available. The homes being built at present are generally much larger and are often double story. Older homes closer to the city with decent block size for gardens etc. are being buldozed to put up multiple smaller homes sadly. That is being driven by greedy developers, shire councils and rampant immigration.

[@gjamieson1956]

So many things to see in Australia its a lifetime

[@kayot4947]

My grandmother (born 1920) grew up in Easey St Collingwood. Back then it was a chicken farm and they had a horse and cart hire business.

[@triarb5790]

Smith Street Collingwood was the favourite haunt of Chopper Read. My neighbours who owned 'The Last Record Store' used to see him all the time.

[@danw3735]

Go Pies!! Shame you didn't come here during AFL season :D

[@mcshmurty8255]

I haven't been to Collingwood for a while even though I only live a few suburbs away. Your video makes me want to go back and spend a day exploring it 😊

[@GaryDiamondComedy]

Another great video guys! I used to work in Collingwood but was always either rushing to or from work and never knew it was so interesting. Watching your video opened up my eyes. I no longer work there but will definitely have to head down on the weekends and check it out. Looks amazing! Keep up the good work guys 😊

[@antt1674]

Great videos of Melbourne guys! Keep ém coming please! If you head to Brunswick St in Fitzroy you should go to the bar called Naked for Satan. There's a roof terrace there with excellent views of the surrounding areas.

[@junebreheny7658]

Very good video. You are giving us a great look at the inner suburbs of Melbourne.

[@richardcaldwell9160]

Hey G & M, this is looks like a great suburb to live in. I can smell the vibes x

[@SP-free]

I understand that as visitors with new eyes you would over romanticise Collingwood. I grew up around there as a kid. It used to be an all Anglo-Aussie suburb, then immigrants like Greeks and Italians ran coffee shops & food shops & bakeries and it was an honest clean innocent and vibrant place. People were more open then and nobody was trying to be hip or something they weren’t. But in the shadow of Smith Street the Collingwood Commission Flats were a hotbed of violence and drugs and poverty, and still is. Then Smith Street fell into neglect and became rundown. Honestly rundown through age and cheap & nasty shops moving into them. Now a lot of trendy shops have moved in and a lot have done nothing to the old 1900’s building facades. So you could say it’s hip. But it’s not hip and maintained. It’s hip but rundown. The shop internals are made to look new or stylish or cool. But the outsides are neglected. And too much graffiti ends up looking like visual vomit. And for decades you’ll always find the drug addict, the petty criminal, the poor and those with mental issues walking around Collingwood 24/7. Visitors can come for one day or a few hours and think it is hipster heaven. That’s a facade, just a front, pretty soulless really. But decades ago, Collingwood, just had working class people who cared about streets like Smith and Johnson and Hoddle street. Long time Melbournians have seen Collingwood in a better state. Also, if you walk from one end to the other, both ways you’ll soon realise the Suburb is actually a big, big suburb and not as small as Glen said in the early part of this video. Plus Collingwood has a lot of Houses, Apartments & Companies there besides just those small Industrial buildings that have been turned into Coffee Shops. I grew up in the next suburb in Richmond, played in Collingwood as a kid and even worked in Collingwood. One of my lasting memories of Collingwood was the near weekly police raids with vans and police helicopters flying over as another drug raid was happening in the Collingwood Commission Flats. But before that Smith Street was wonderful. One of the first multi-cultural shopping meccas right next to the City along with Victoria St, Richmond. Good job guys!

[@michellejenner9954]

Very well stated. Agree wholeheartedly.

[@cbjones2212]

My Dad was born in Collingwood and my Mum in Fitzroy. Dad and his brothers and their Father were a dance band in the late 1930's/early 1940's (WWII era) and my parents met at a dance in the Collingwood Town Hall.

[@DavidPerez-zt3qq]

Glen looks swole ! And Mado is as lovely as ever!

[@kathyreid4735]

Gelato Messina is my fav!!

[@kayelle8005]

There’s a Collingwood in Canada as well so it was funny that you mentioned Montreal. You’ll love Fitzroy. Even funkier than Collingwood. Try Brunswick St and Gertrude St.

[@eduard1215]

city saints is my fave cafe in the city! the flat white is so delicious

[@peterbasha1]

Other things to look out around that area is Carlton Gardens, Royal Exhibition building, Fitzroy Town Hall beautiful building.

[@tironibusmaximus6100]

Greek and Italian migrants have had a big impact on Melbourne. FYI 1 in 20 Australians have Italian origins, and Melbourne has one of the biggest Greek populations outside Greece. (its actually got more Greeks than any Greek City except Athens).

[@rajivmurkejee7498]

The most "hip" street in Melbourne changes about every decade as -increased real estate prices of such an area makes the new "hipsters" look for cheaper places. Pretty much the same everywhere methinks.

[@andreaaprico1704]

I haven’t got to the end of the video yet but if you go back to this area I recommend Gertrude st and the abbotsford convent, bakery, cafe and farm

[@VASI_LIKI]

Catch trains too to see other parts. The Frankston line can take you straight down to Frankston. Walk from station down to the pier and explore the canal too.

[@ManufactureBelief]

A gardeners perspective. Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria is close to CBD. Then do a zigzag across south east to see the leafy streets with lovely well manicured old colonial era filigree villas lining leafy streets (oaks stretched across the streets.. Chapel street (at Friday/Sat night, a night walk would be entertaining lol). Avoid the main arterial roads. When you went to St Kilda and Brighton, you missed seeing the wealth and stunning garden lined streets because you went the beach road route. Stonnington area has so many lovely homes and trees everywhere. All dating back to the mid 1850s (gold rush wealth).. You miss getting the essence of why Melbourne is what it is.. There's also other areas that are very ethnic, can see lots of different communities. Suburbs have their own flavour, e.g Oakleigh is Greek..

[@stephenhadley2490]

Great video. You two are funny as.

[@themartinlang]

ACOFFEE (the second one you passed!) is the best coffee in Melbourne....one to try next time you're in town!

[@bramba1953]

You were near the Yarra river which is a beautiful walk along it like being in the bush

[@annettefellows8418]

If you want Italian you go to Carlton. Also a cool area. Best icecream shop ever on Lygon Street.

[@BobLouden-r9q]

Get down to the Mornington Peninsula rosebud rye and along to Sorrento.. Great safe beaches also check the Geelong and the great Ocean Rd.

[@ralfeb]

You guys started the video right near Goldies. One of the best pubs in Melbourne, if you're staying around there you have to check it out.

[@livertic]

Stayed in Berlin 10 years ago, 1 currywurst my arrse was on fire, lol ! Loved the beer mind.

[@dereckbrannigan6195]

Wellington St as per The Duke of Wellington (of Waterloo fame, 1815) was a Dubliner like the host. Wellington’s older brother was Baron Mornington which the bayside area is called after.

[@dizzychizzy1]

12:40 the bald man clone bakery😂😂😂

[@barnowl.]

Yes, I thought that I needed my eyes checked because I was seeing triple !

[@johnsullivan2449]

If you need a break from the city vibe there’s the Mountain Dandenong Ranges National Park about an hour’s drive east of Melbourne where some of the tallest flowering trees in the world grow. The forest provided mast timber for sailing ships and the area became very popular for city dwellers to visit during holidays to unite with the forest environment.

[@claytonchristophersen1633]

Maddo should check out Kami Paprer store in Brunswick St , actually check out Brunswick st .

[@GoldCoastExplorer]

Cheers great tour 🌴🏖👍

[@steve1st2die]

The "Bike Store" also has some of the best pies in Melbourne, Tarts Anon.

[@tironibusmaximus6100]

Our version of Collingwood in Sydney is Newtown/Enmore

[@panoramasyntheticgrassandl6853]

Loving the content guys! If you're still in Canberra make sure you try Under Bakery.Their house Sourdough is phenomenal

[@triarb5790]

Poor Canberra Overlooked by everyone including most Australians. It's actually a really nice city and seriously underrated.

[@panoramasyntheticgrassandl6853]

​​@@triarb5790Absolutely! It's just a 2-hour drive to the snowy mountains and only 2 hours to the breathtaking south coast-both offer stunning road trips. Additionally, the local wine, coffee, and culinary scene is thriving and becoming quite vibrant. Canberra is truly coming into its own, and I can envision it becoming a popular destination in the near future.

[@kayelle8005]

Hope you get to my neighbourhood, it’s much greener and there’s some beautiful wetland parks and a walk by the river is a must. Union Road is lovely and full of cafés and restaurants. Come see Ascot Vale 😊

[@e-conrecords4665]

Collingwood, Fitzroy, Brunswick, Northcote etc… they’re all really similar. Check out Chapel St in Dth Yarra. You guys also need to get out of the city & come down to the Beautiful Mornington Peninsula. Come have a meal on the Main Street of Mornington.

[@robbiefest]

Glen you pulled out my favourite Japanese icecream!!

[@kennethdodemaide8678]

Collingwood used to be a working-class suburb with factories and warehouses. My aunt used to live just off Smith Street. The next suburb of Abbotsford was much the same. Now an upmarket area of Melbourne. Sydney buildings used a lot of sandstone but Melbourne used bluestone

[@melbal2]

I think Glen’s appreciation and eye for nature and architecture is pretty cool. And I agree, Collingwood is great but nothing overly special compared to whats around the world. There’s other things about Melbourne and Australia that make it unique and special.

[@BobLouden-r9q]

Visit the shrine of rememberance and the surrounding gardens.

[@tironibusmaximus6100]

When I was visiting Frankfurt I felt it has a kind of Melbourne feel to it.

[@Final_Cut_FF]

You should go to High st Northcote, voted the world's coolest street. By Whom I don't know but you'll like it, lol.

[@russellatwell784]

Love watching your clips just a bit of info about Collingwood & North Fitzroy back in the 60s 70s no one wanted to live in these areas they were considered a slum old area where as now you cannot afford to buy there most properties although small min $1 million as you showed very trendy a yuppie area. Keep up the great clips look forward to them all.

[@antoz8229]

You are doing great work thank you from Australia and the inventor of Bis Australian Craig Wright

[@Russellmidnight]

Gotta pop down to Springvale for banh mi & pho

[@benvonstanke7493]

There is a lot of good authentic Japanese food in Melbourne if you know where to look :)

[@anthonywhelan5419]

Fitzroy and Collingwood were Irish Catholic strongholds in the day. Read the novel, "Power Without Glory" by Frank Hardy. It was a veiled biography of the Irish mafia who ruled whole swathes of Melbourne with Collingwood as their epicenter. There was a brilliant tv series based on the novel in the 1980s. The novel was banned for a few years due to litigation by powerful individuals who claimed that they were defamed by the book. Go down to Warrnambool, Koroit (the town's Irish pub belonged to Frank Hardy's parents and was his childhood home) and onto Killarney beach and stroll around Port Fairy aka Belfast.

[@suzannekeith68]

Collingwood and Fitzroy are fabulous, we stay there when we are in Melbourne. Did you spend any time in inner city Sydney? There are areas with similar vibes there too.

[@gogetem188]

omg My MUM live there born their in the 50s dey hard Collingwood it went down in the 90s bad

[@suzannekeil3170]

Have you been to BrunswickSt or the very best is along High St Northcote, very eclectic

[@bmyhrr]

Melbourne, specifically thanks to its Italian and Greek working-class influences has always had, in my opinion, the best coffee, gelato's, bread and abundance of fresh food.

[@karoana8759]

Doesnt it reminded you Berlin? It does to me ❤

[@PietroH53]

Great video guys, at 3.13 is there some trams atop the building over the road?

[@triarb5790]

If it's the one I'm thinking of,yes,it was at one tome a restaurant ( gimmicky not good) not sure what it is now.

[@Shellbe_right]

I go to that Nando’s all this time, I will try that sushi ❤ By the way those big ugly buildings are commissions housing

[@pill0ck318]

All the old buildings, the graffiti everywhere... Add some scifi, bad weather and dozens upon dozens of skyscrapers and that city is pure cyberpunk

[@garystrahan4601]

@26:55 The Police car is covered with handwritten messages because they are in an industrial pay and work conditions dispute with the state government.

[@mgun1510]

Time for a beer guys

[@viviennehughes4343]

Grafitti is actually illegal here (apart from commissioned murals). The fact that it is so prevalent is a reflection of the costs involved in removing it.

[@tristandavies9597]

The Albion and Grace darling pubs you walked past arent 'irish' or 'english' pubs,, they're Australian pubs, which are descendants of both. Also the Grace Darling Hotel isnt an 'old brewery thats been renovated' its a pub thats been continuously open since the 1850s. Coopers is just a mainstream beer they have inside that has a sign there out front. Pubs in Australia are all called 'Hotels' historically, much like in Northern England, you missed a few great ones in the side streets like the Napier, Union Club and Goldies

[@michellejenner9954]

Love the Union Club Hotel!

[@angstyrossini]

Just FYI - its not "graffiti" - Its street art ☺Enjoying your adventures in Melbourne.

[@mikldude9376]

Lol , looks like Graffiti :).

[@nevilleapple629]

Melbourne didn’t feel much like living in Australia to me either when I lived there,that’s what I liked about it but the locals wouldn’t have a bar of that point of view.

[@mgun1510]

Ha! It's just daggy old Melbourne.

[@Stoic_SunHounds]

We seem to have everything to tantalise the tastebuds

[@sarnveishastein1201]

Thank You Glen and Mado for another great video on your adventures in Australia ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👏👏👏👏👏❤️☕️🥤🌯☕️🥤

[@i.g.n2trip684]

lol mado hyping up glen on sugar…. You ask for it ( happy humour)

[@mikldude9376]

You are right about the diversity , not only in the burbs but state to state , if you slowly travel north up to queensland and cairns , even the way people speak changes , you find slang becomes more well used up north , and i think the higher up you go the more laid back people are , a lot of the old school lingo and slang that Aussies have been a bit famous for that was also prominent in Melbourne in decades past is slowly being filtered out by the massive immigration and multi cultural happening , if you speak to oldies , you may notice a bit more old school aussie talk , but these days , i think we are in a lot of ways becoming more with a european feel , and its not a bad thing or a good thing , but you notice it , particularly if you are an old fart Aussie thats been around the traps :) . Collingwood is a pretty famous aussie football team , often the butt of some derogatory jokes , you know , tongue in cheek stuff .

[@jeremyblair8106]

Did you go to Lygon St Carlton?

[@rongt859]

Second largest Greek population outside of Athens is Melbourne

[@paulheywood2116]

Brunswick st in Fitzroy is fun place

[@Mediawatcher2023]

The reason the buildings look similar to New Zealand is they were built in the colonial era that is in the 1800's i hope you enjoyed melbourne

[@claytonchristophersen1633]

Everybody is sleeping , come out at 1 at 1 AM

[@GregPalmer2]

Oh its those backpackers from the home country, remember all them signs saying no trespassing, beware of crocodiles,no swimming,no parking, keep left are directed at you,not us locals.

[@theroadrunner8300]

Been to Glenrowan,Victoria? Thats Ned Kelly country

[@bernbee1679]

It’s certainly eclectic, I think you’ve mentioned Canada, Italy, Germany, Japan, Ireland. That’s why Melbourne is known as the multicultural city. It’s been described as the most European city in Australia.

[@VASI_LIKI]

If you have a car worth visiting Spotswood to graze food at Grazeland and then after drive to Williamstown to explore the beachside town and pier. If you have money catch a boat ride to port melbourne to see the Pier and then come back the way you came.

[@VASI_LIKI]

Another place worth walking to is the Russian Church to see the golden Onion domes.

[@francinelynn334]

Enjoying your videos and good to see you in the suburbs. Collingwood you say reminds you of cities elsewhere in the world. That’s not surprising when you think of the melting pot of nationalities that have shaped this country.

[@andreaaprico1704]

Gelato Messina is delicious but Piccolina is better (IMO)

[@Davo-i1s]

Maybe I'm out of touch with the modern world but that grafititi makes the place look sleezy and run down Nowadays trendies may refer to it as street art but to me it just looks like vandalism - each to their own I guess. It also looks similar to suburbs around inner Sydney or even Newcastle probably because they were working class areas and have plenty of character,