Takaro Trails cycle tour, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand
Me on a bike? My friends will chortle at the thought. But there was a bacon stop!
Me on a bike? My friends will chortle at the thought. But there was a bacon stop!
On the Sunday after Christmas, Jac and I went out to lunch with our friend M (remember this delicious vegetarian barbecue?). We went to the Broken Hill Hotel (314 Albany Highway, Victoria Park). It’s a pub Jac’s wanted to check out for some time now – and I’m glad we did. Jac and M enjoyed […]
Another pre-Christmas post! This one, lunch with work colleagues at the Grosvenor Hotel (339 Hay St, Perth). TC had the Morrocan chicken panini – the bread was toasted and filled with grilled fillets of Morrocan spiced chicken, as well as bacon, cheese, avocado, tomato, lettuce and ranch sauce, served with seasoned beer battered chips ($AU$18…
Jac took me out recently for a pub dinner at the Carlisle Hotel (174 Rutland Avenue, Carlisle). We began with a serve of garlic bread (AU$5.00). It was typical cafe-style garlic bread – pressed flat and toasted till golden and crisp on the outside, more buttery than garlicky in flavour, yet satisfyingly savoury. There was […]
We were out and about this morning and on impulse decided to stop for an early lunch at Silks Bar and Bistro, at the Belmont Tavern. We would probably have been just as happy to eat at a food hall in a shopping centre somewhere but this was nice for a change. :) With a […]
We’d always planned to stay for a week in Geraldton and spend the last couple of nights in Dongara (Dongara is 65km from Geraldton), and so on Monday morning we packed all our gear back into the car and got back on the road again. We stopped along the way so I could take photos […]
On Wednesday we went on the live lobster factory tour at the Geraldton Fishermen’s Co-operative. We got there nice and early, well before the 9:30 am start time. As we waited, I took a few shots of my surroundings: Throughout this post I will be writing about lobsters – even though the beasties are […]