Archive for January, 2008

NSW Holiday 2007-2008 – Day 4

Christmas Day! On Christmas morning, Jon and D went to the beach for a surf while L, Jac and I went for a walk up Tomaree Headland in Tomaree National Park. The walk up the hill probably took us 25-30 mins, and when we reached the lookout, we were treated a good view of Port […]

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Just a note

Still working through the holiday photos and writing the posts. I have a number of emails to reply to (some from before we went on holiday) and I promise I’ll get to them as soon as I can.

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NSW Holiday 2007-2008 – Day 3

Christmas Eve! The Fig Tree Deli Cafe 271 Bondi Road, Bondi NSW Jac and I went for a morning walk and made a breakfast stop at The Fig Tree Deli Cafe. I had a mug of English breakfast tea (AU$2.50) with soy milk on the side (AU$0.40). Jac rather liked the sound of the Fig […]

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NSW Holiday 2007-2008 – Day 2

We slept in on our second day in Sydney and then took a walk down Bondi Road to Bondi Beach. Gelato Bar 140 Campbell Parade, Bondi Beach NSW From what I understand, the Gelato Bar is one of the oldest eateries in Bondi and has been around for over 40 years. We sat at a […]

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NSW Holiday 2007-2008 – Day 1

Let me preface this post with a little story about: TFP and air-sickness The first time I flew in a plane with Jac was years ago when we went to Queensland for her cousin’s wedding. On that flight, I ate the meal (a kind of spring roll with Thai green curry chicken filling, followed by […]

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Indian and Italian takeaway dinners

As we were leaving on Friday night (21/12/2007) we couldn’t be bothered cooking and creating piles of dishes to wash, so we had a couple of takeaway meals during the week. Dinner Wednesday night, from Maya Masala. Clockwise from the top – naan, lamb and spinach curry, vegetable curry, butter chicken. The lamb was very […]

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Dinner at Pattycakes’

On the Tuesday before we left for Sydney, we had dinner with Jac’s mum, Pattycakes. Before we left home to go to Pattycake’s house, we had a Christmas hamper to assemble. This was to be Pattycakes’ Christmas present from Jac’s brother Jon. He lives in Sydney (we stayed with him on our holiday) and had […]

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Work lunches

There were three posts I’d started writing but never got the chance to post before we went on holiday. Here’s the first! Monday 17/12/2007 (my goodness, THAT long ago?!): I had to make a little visit to Chokeby Road on Rokeby Road (that’s fun to say!) and since I was in the vicinity of Perth […]

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We’re home!

Hello everyone, and Happy New Year! We got home on Friday night. I have a few pre-Christmas posts which I’d started but didn’t get a chance to finish before our holiday, and then of course there are all the holiday photos (lots of delicious food!) and related posts I am looking forward to sharing with […]

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