31 Oct 2011

Sis' apt along Franklin st, next to queen vict mkt.

Degraves street, home of the big breakfast.

We've missed breakfast by a couple of mins, they were already putting up the lunch menu.

Breakfast omlette panini.

Little did I know when I took this shot that the horse would win the Melbourne Cup.

Pre-Melbourne Cup parade.

Lovely old buildings

Church of Scientology

When I walked in, I thought I had died and gone to heaven.

Sydney street

First stop on my 'no reservations food tour', A1 lebanese bakery

Zaatar pizza and meat pizza.

A1 lebanese bakery

There were some beautiful houses in the suburbs.

BH's request, Burnettis for cakes.

We saw these at the supermarket, going for $10. Couldn't resist, they sing and dance too.

1 Nov 2011

Its tuesday, 6:15am, but the market is not open... Cos its the day of the Melbourne Cup

This lane should have been lined with chairs and tables.

The race that stops a nation. (and closes a market)

Queen Victoria Market

The beautiful old trees lining charlton park.

Spring is almost over, summer is on the way.

The melbourne museum, they were hosting the tutankhamun display, but the price was a little too dear for us to go in.

The circle line tram framed in front of the beautiful windsor hotel.

Everything's closed for the melbourne cup.

Mekong pho shop. One would think, "why travel all the way to australia to eat pho", but this was the best bowl of pho i've had outside hanoi.

Rice paper spring rolls, and they were nice enough to make them without parsley for us.

Definitely the 2nd best bowl of pho I've had so far.

2 Nov 2011

Our rental for the week, a toyota yaris.

Another Aussie city, another vineyard drive-about

They had a lovely tour of the production of champange.

The whole process of wine and champagne making

Riddling hall is where the bottles of champange are hand-turned to produce the bubbles.

We stumbled upon this little restaurant with a herb garden in the back. It was the chef picking fresh herbs that made me say "we have to eat here".

The quaint little kitchen of Bella Vedere

"bella rabbit' white rabbit braised in apple cider, onion, pancetta & grained mustard with double cream served simply over mashed nicola

Grilled pork ribs on a bed of rocket

The dessert pies looked and smelled amazing, but we were much too full to have any. (btw, the place baked their own breads)

yew looking at me?

The view was spectacular.

Geppetto's workshop (turns out this is a franchise toy shop, we saw another one in Sorrento

We made it to 'pie in the sky' at exactly 4.30, closing time. They no longer had hot pies, but we bought a couple of cold ones to heat up back home.

Another lovely stumble-upon. I took the wrong turn and we made a quick pitstop for a hot pot of tea at the snotty fox.