This weekend we found ourselves in Orange, visting our daughter Lauren who lives there.
Orange is absolutely beautiful in autumn, and our visit coincided with Orange Food Week.
We did a number of “P” things…
A spot of wine tasting at Philip Shaw’s winery
A spot of wine tasting at Philip Shaw’s winery
Bought some Pink Lady apples at the markets in Cook Park
And had a Pie at Pie in the Sky at Bilpin on the way home
A great weekend 🙂
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Don’t think we have EVER given an 11/10 for breakie before… and if our coffees came a little bit sooner, it would have been.
So 9/10
WOW! We both had the Arabian Eggs (from a very small menu)
They were sensational – best egg breakfast we’ve had in the past 3 years, probably.
This tiny cafe is right on the wharf at Kirribilli. Make a choice… catch a ferry or eat… decisions, decisions!
A tiny, but really interesting menu – see it here
It’s a great location, right next to Admiralty House
Robyn had a red hot crack at re-creating Arabian eggs – damn good!
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After a fabulous wedding where Nic and Jo said “I do” we needed to head over to Erskinville to pick up a car that was left there in The Great Clear Family Wedding Car Shuffle. We made our way there, during Sydney’s terrific first day of autumn afternoon downpour, via Enmore for some Ice cream.
There’s so many great Gelato cafes through the inner west, including a previous favourite, n2 extreme gelato  Check it out – very cool how they just add liquid nitrogen to a liquid mix and create instant ice cream. We didn’t go there, however… time for something new 🙂 Across the road from the iconic Enmore Theatre in King St is Cow and Moon, purveyors of THE BEST ICE CREAM IN SYDNEY. Yep, big claim, so check this link.
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A great range of amazing flavours. $6.50 for a medium cup with 3 flavours… that’ll do! Cointreau, Hazelnut Roche, Afogato, Banana and Salted Caramel, Apple Lemon and Blood Orange Sorbet, Popcorn, Pistachio, Coconut and Hazelnut Roche, Hazelnut and Italian Nougat, Jaffa, traditional Lemon Sorbet, Mixed Berry and Chocolate Sorbet… bloody good!
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We wandered along Enmore Road while we ate, and washed our sticky hands under the dripping downpipe of the Enmore.
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So, on to J… no real thoughts at the moment!
A workmate of Robyn’s knows a helicopter pilot.
Through her, John from HeliScenic helicopter tours out of Bankstown Airport had offered us a great deal on a flight over the beaches, from Palm Beach in the north down to Cronulla, following the walk along the coast we did last year.
What a great week H!
Until John rang early Saturday morning as we were heading out to Bankstown, advising us that the low cloud meant we wouldn’t have the best experience and that we should postpone. Spending a small fortune for anything less than 100%… pretty easy decision… we postponed.
While sitting at a cafe in Eastwood having a coffee, a few suggestions from friends included
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UTS Rowers has rebuilt the clubhouse at Haberfield, so we headed over there on Sunday morning for breakfast.
A pretty limited menu in a venue that is so obviously run by people who run a club, not a cafe or restaurant!
Here’s a few tips for the good folks at UTS Rowers Club…
A great deck to sit, eat, drink and watch the world go by, but we won’t be hurrying back. There’s better value and experiences all over the inner west.
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in Ryde Park at The Groundskeeper Cafe.
Can highly recommend this place. Delicious Middle Eastern inspired food, great location in the middle of the park, playground nearby.
Just great.
With just two weeks to go before we will be in Germany, we went to the Cafe Berlin in Balmain, just down from the Unity Hall Hotel.
We beat the Sunday morning heat with an early start and enjoyed breakfast and coffee on the footpath, watching the world go by.
Afterwards, we went for a wander around the block that encloses Balmain Hospital… a real mix of old and new, dilapidated and renovated, loved and let go.
If this is a typical German breakfast, I’m going to need to buy a whole new wardrobe when we get home… I didn’t take quite the healthy option I could have!
15 November, 2015… we’ve made it to Gunamatta Bay in Cronulla.
With only a few weekends left before we leave for holidays, we finished our year long walk from Sydney’s northern most beach to the southern most, and all the bays and beaches and everything in between. Has been a lot of fun. From warm and beautiful through to hot and sweaty, wet, cold and miserable, a couple of hundred swims, a couple of hundred kms, discovering suburbs and beaches and parts of Sydney we never knew existed. And to finish ogling at waterfront houses along Gunamatta Bay and a lovely breakfast at The Nuns’ Pool and great coffee in Cronulla was a great way to finish.
I didn’t think to record this trip using a blog; sadly, I just recorded each week through facebook.
Suffice to say we had a great time. Notable weekends included:
A cracker of a year!
See the Walking 2014 album from flickr here
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