Everything on offer across Melbourne in the countdown to Christmas

There are just 28 big sleeps until Christmas, and Melbourne is ready to shine. From city streets and laneways to Caulfield Racecourse, there are plenty of ways to have a jolly good time.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
There are just twenty eight big sleeps until Christmas, and
Melbourne is ready to shine. From city streets and laneways
to Corefield Racecourse, there are plenty of ways to have
a jolly good time.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
It may not be December yet, but the Christmas cheer
is sweeping through.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Where I'm making a gingerbread house out of carpor May
favorite city is making.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
This under a huge tent at Colfield Racecourse. Melbourne's Christmas
Wonderland is set to open tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
All this magnificent jumping castles, there's rollerss skating or you wait,
do you see the Magical care Pat Christmas Wish.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Show in the CBD, A test run before city streets
and laneways light up like this, along with the river
show on the banks of the Yarra starting tomorrow night,
one hundred and thirty meters.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
Of water, light, lazers and projection. Last year we had
two hundred and fifty five thousand vessels and are expecting
even more good here.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
And if you're a stickler for tradition, the award winning
production A Christmas Carol is returning to Melbourne for its
fourth consecutive year. Locky Hume starring as the miserable old
man who despises Christmas.

Speaker 5 (01:32):
It is late, and late is when the singing creatures come.
It starts in a dark spot, obviously through Scrooge's point
of view, but ends hopefully that you'll be floating on
air when you walk out May

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Christmas, Sarah Jones, seven News