We stayed at the Hyatt Hotel Canberra for five nights in November and part of the deal included free buffet breakfast every morning at the hotel. We ate breakfast at the buffet on three mornings. Two of those mornings were the two days of my conference, when we didn’t have time to go out to […]
I crashed out for a few hours following afternoon tea. Despite my appetite, I still had a sore throat, blocked head and runny nose and was much lower on energy than I normally would be. When I woke up, it was dark outside and well past dinner time. Our tummies were rumbling again but I […]
One more day of work, and then I’m on holidays for three weeks. I have a lot of catching up to do at home – Christmas shopping, tidying my study, backing up my files then installing Windows 7 (finally!) on my laptop computer, and working through a huge backlog of photographs and writing the corresponding […]
After breakfast at Cafe Essen we walked around the shops with bellies full of bacon. We visited the Canberra Museum and Gallery. When we got back to the hotel in the afternoon, we rested for a couple of hours. We skipped lunch because we wanted to build up our appetites again; we’d booked for high […]
On the Friday of our Canberra trip, we got up early and walked to Civic for breakfast. We’d walked past Cafe Essen a few times and seen magic words on the specials blackboard: corncakes, French toast, pancakes, bacon, maple syrup. It was a crisp cool morning and we enjoyed the walk. It also felt good […]
On the Thursday of our trip to Canberra, I attended the second day of my conference and emerged at 6pm, still with my sore throat, tired but surprisingly hungry. After our not-so-great experience at the Shanghai Dumpling Cafe the night before, we were ready for something western for dinner. Kingsley’s Steak and Crabhouse was mentioned [&helli…
I’m always on the look-out for places to get macarons in Perth. In the past year, I’ve become obsessed with macarons. Their many vibrant colours and flavours, some utterly sublime, some downright weird, are so appealing to my senses and imagination. Eating a macaron is a textural delight – I relish biting into the crisp […]
On the Thursday of our Canberra holiday, I woke up very early with a burning sore throat. It felt hot and scratchy and hollow and hurt like I’d swallowed razor blades. I’m sure you guys have all felt like that at one time or another, when it hurts to swallow. I felt dreadful. But I […]
On the Wednesday of our Canberra trip, we ate breakfast at the hotel buffet. Our hotel stay included full buffet breakfast every morning; we ended up eating there three mornings. It was great – I’ll be writing about it in a separate post. After the buffet breakfast, I went to my conference, which was all […]
Sponsored by Nuffnang In this post: My chocolate confessions Interview with Tobie Puttock Ferrero Gourmet Christmas Hamper by Tobie Puttock Competition My chocolate confessions When we were kids, my Mum used to delight us with descriptions of the food at her office’s morning and afternoon teas. With every tale, Mum would declare: “I can alw…