Merry Melbourne Christmas

It may lack the majesty and mayhem of Rockefeller Center, but Melbourne's CBD was abuzz with last-minute shoppers and even a slight nip in the night air as Aradhna and I walked its streets.
Queen Victoria Market is a Melbourne institution and a great place to get fat.
Melbourne Central -- where Aradhna and I bought a pair of Freedom sofas before seeing a lovely Bollywood film called Taare Zameen Par -- features a historic building called the Shot Tower sheathed in a glass and steel cone.