Category: Food

The Duchess

January 5, 2013

An uneventful day, but fun nonetheless. We went shopping 🙂

My cold is lingering, and I felt a bit worse today. But my spirits are high, and much laughs were had. I didn’t buy the intriguing candies shown above, but I did buy this:

It just exterminates your heart, doesn’t it? 🙂

Speaking of cute, go check out www.reptilepark.com.au and watch the banner cycle until you see the image of the baby koala. I’m going there on Monday. Cross your fingers for cute koala cuddling 🙂

Fancy some twiggy sticks? Only $28.48/kg!

Tomorrow I’m going to a farmers market in the AM, and then catching up with a dear old friend in the afternoon! Such is the life of a vacationing expat 😉

The blog title? We’re about to watch the film of the same name…

Going Home To _______

January 3, 2013

On the train from Sydney to Newcastle, which I caught today, the views can be like this:

In other words the country is far less flat and outbackey than on the Canberra trip. In the above shot it’s not raining; it’s just a dirty train window.

I saw, amusingly enough, one kangaroo only. However I saw many rabbits. They were small and black and in the grass along the track running from the outskirts of Sydney all the way to Morisset. I couldn’t get a good shot so this artists impression must suffice:

When I got to Newcastle I looked like this:

And a few hours later… Like this:

What happened? crazy Aussie drugs happened! Or perhaps it was the case that pharmacies can dispense the ‘good stuff’ without a prescription here which led me to getting some serious drugs which punched my cold back to Hell.

I hope 🙂

Here was lunch:

Ah, beet root on bread! Here’s lucky the aged cat:

And here’s a guy I met outside on the door when I arrived:

After dinner we did some of this:

And then I took my ‘night time’ drugs which have already rendered me ruinously tired.

The ‘Gromwell Incident’ will have to wait for tomorrow 🙂

Wreck-It Robert

January 2, 2013

Let me get this out of the way, this is me right now:

Yessir, I’m still sick. Putting aside the fact I may have tried to look as miserable as possible in the above shot, the truth is I’m still fighting off an evil Australian bug. And you know what they say about Aussie bugs!!!

I had a dilemma yesterday. I discovered that both pairs of shorts I brought with me to Australia were splitting! Since (I assume) it’s illegal in Australia to stroll around with one’s wedding tackle visible, I needed to buy some short pants!

OMG clothes are expensive here! As in $100+ for a pair of name brand cargo shorts, and ~$75 for something normal. I settled for ugly Chinos that were on sale at $30 🙂

Here’s the smallest cinema in the universe:

Only 61 seats! This is in the local independent Randwick cinema, and it was in this tiny room we saw Wreck-It Ralph yesterday. What a delightful film! If you have even a passing interest in video gaming of any kind you’ll love this movie, so go see it!

Dinner was an Australian rip-off of Chipotle Grill:

And then during the evening I consumed criminal amounts of cheese & onion chips and mini cherry ripes. This was because I felt better at the time, but I’m paying for it now (the next morning).

Adam says “Starve a cold; feed a fever.” I should listen to him 🙁

Robot Claw