Archive for May, 2009

Hamilton Island holiday, Day 7

This is post 7 out of a series of 8 posts (the full list is at the end of this post). The dinner cruise the night before was fantastic, but we managed to have two magnificent meals the next day, our second-last day on Hamilton Island. I was keen to go out to lunch. While […]

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Hamilton Island holiday, Day 6

This is post 6 out of a series of 8 posts (the full list is at the end of this post). Breakfast at the Marina DeliThis morning, we went to the marina in search of breakfast. We decided to try a light breakfast at the Marina Deli. This is the view from our table in […]

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Hamilton Island holiday, Day 5

This is post 5 out of a series of 8 posts (the full list is at the end of this post). Breakfast – pancake mix pikelets and tomato on toastFor breakfast, Jac made pikelets! She bought a bottle of Greens Original Pancake Shake a while ago and decided to pack it into our suitcase! It […]

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Hamilton Island holiday, Day 3 – the wedding

This is post 3 out of a series of 8 posts (the full list is at the end of this post). The weddingFriday was the wedding day! The wedding ceremony was held at the island chapel. It took the bride and groom around 15 years and two kids to get to this happy day, and […]

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Hamilton Island holiday, Day 2

This is post 2 out of a series of 8 posts (the full list is at the end of this post). Our holiday apartmentOn our second day, I woke up early and took photographs of our holiday apartment. This is the front of the apartment – we were upstairs. The kitchen area had all the […]

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Hamilton Island holiday, Day 1

This is the first of a series of 8 posts (the full list is at the end of the post). Most of you have probably worked out by now that we went to Hamilton Island for our recent holiday. We were on Hamilton Island for a week, Wednesday to Wednesday, with Jac’s brother’s wedding on […]

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A bun and a sandwich

During the week leading up to Easter, I had a buttered toasted hot cross bun for breakfast. Jac toasted the buns under the grill so that they were slightly crisp on the outside but soft on the inside and still quite chewy, just how I like them. See the hint of something (white with reddish […]

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Thursday night junk food

We’ve been very naughty lately, eating takeaway at home and eating junk food when we’re at the shops! I’ve gone from having a Filet-O-Fish thing to having a Big Mac thing! Jac felt like a beef burger with salad in it (“But not a Big Mac”, she said), so I got her a McFeast. This […]

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Nando’s dinner

Here’s a Nando’s Party Pack for two, a real chickenfest: two quarter chickens (with drumsticks), two chicken thigh pieces* and two chicken tenderloins. Jac got them basted in Nando’s BBQ rib marinade rather than the standard peri peri. We’ve been having all our Nando’s chicken basted in BBQ lately – I love it. It…

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