• tombruzzo
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    5 months ago

    The Whittlesea Public Gardens care a great spot with one of those miniature roadways for kids learning to ride their bikes. There’s just one thing to keep in mind about the place:

    It’s located in Thomastown

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      5 months ago

      I travel through Whittlesea reasonably often, and was thinking hmm, I don’t remember seeing that, it must be off the main road… lol

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        5 months ago

        Thomas town isn’t even in the City of Whittlesea so I have no idea why it’s called that

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      5 months ago

      I took the family there once, back in the day when we basically went to every park everywhere we could find. I remember that place because it was so underwhelming. It looks great on Google Maps, big green open space. You get there and it turns out to be one of the most bland spots in all of Melbourne. We never went back.

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        5 months ago

        It may have been done up recently, it was quite nice. The giveaways were how small the plants around the skatepark were and there’s a mini electric car charging station on the bike path

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        5 months ago

        I concur. I once did a job there. It’s so exasperatingly bland. I really wish they did more with the huge space. I think Council was planning to but then covid happened and I didn’t follow up.