On a frosty Sydney winter’s morning, we went to Breakfast Point in Sydney’s Inner West for breakfast at Olive Kitchen.
Delicious 🙂
I had the Italian style baked eggs with tomatoes and other fare in a cast iron pan – a difficult choice from a good menu.
Back to the letter A again 🙂
Westmead Kids’ Hospital (The Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children Hospital at Westmead, near Parramatta) runs an annual art competition for school children. From the thousands of entries, the best 50 are selected and framed and displayed on the walls of the corridors of the wards.
This has been happening for years, and as a result there’s hundreds of paintings that brighten the walls and corridors for the hundreds of sick kids and their parents, some of whom spend months and months within the confines of the hospital.
Even tough this year’s competition hasn’t been judged, we enjoyed what we saw from previous years.
http://bandagedbear.org.au/schools/operation-art/
This gorgeous Panda is a collage pasted onto newsprint.
My Daddy is a lady beetle
Afterwards, we dropped in to Parramatta Park for a coffee at Lachlan’s Cafe.
Crap coffee, nice spot though.
Right at the end of Harris St (no. 1 Harris), by the water at Pyrmont, is the Zebra Lounge.
We had a beautiful breakfast there – delicious food and fantastic presentation. Coffees were a bit slow, but otherwise, can highly recommend it.
This Jackson’s landing area has been really nicely done so it’s a great place to have a wander afterwards.
This site has some history about the area, and its links to CSR, and there’s a fabulous photo gallery as well.
We’ve both been really busy with work this past week and needed to continue doing some more work over the weekend, so just a quick breakfast at a great little cafe in Surrey Hills before hitting the office.
Reuben Hills, a funky little cafe in Surry Hills
A rustic warehouse conversion
Delicious menu
Addison Rd Marrickville, hosts weekly markets each Sunday.
Love a market with plenty of tasting plates
Delicious produce from near and far – bought some pears from Batlow
Delicious food, interesting stalls with lots of organic and vegan friendly produce.
However, I’m reminded of a Calvin and Hobbes (Waterson) cartoon.
I know “one person’s trash is another’s treasure”, but boy, there’s some crap for sale!
The Bowerbird is the trash and treasure
Yep, 2nd hand paint. Now that’ll be handy. Colour doesn’t matter anyway!
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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!
Week 7… really happy with the idea for this weekend.
Initially we toyed with the idea of touring the new UTS Gehry (crumpled paper bag) building, but after some investigation during the week learnt that it wouldn’t be open this weekend. Perhaps in 37 weeks or so!
Last year, while walking the inner harbour foreshore, we caught a ferry to Watsons Bay from Circular Quay. On the way there, it made stop at Garden Island. This surprised us, as we had always thought that Garden Island was closed to the public.
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After a little investigation we learnt that about 10 years ago, the northern point of the island was opened to the public with the building of the Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre, the official museum of the Royal Australian Navy, which opened in 2005.
The Heritage Centre includes a museum and some heritage buildings. The museum has some fascinating exhibits – stuff about the Japanese midget submarines that attacked Sydney Harbour during World War II etc.
The public part of the island is only accessible via ferry. It’s Crown [Navy] land and is a fully functioning base. Every arrival is met at the wharf by a security guard who’s been there for 11 years and is both a font of knowledge and a bit of a know-it-all!
The cafe, museum and gardens are open between 10am and 4pm each day.
We caught a ferry from Huntley’s Point (Riverside Girls’ High) to Circular Quay, and then changed there for the Watsons Bay Ferry. We arrived a bit late so didn’t spend hours and hours there.
Entry is free. The museum is really well laid out with some interesting stuff, all well labelled so making your way ’round the exhibits is easy.
There’s some initials carved into an exposed rock with a 1788 date making it the oldest settlement artifact on the east coast of Australia. The signal tower (an easy couple of flights of stairs) gives a terrific view of Sydney, Kings Cross and the harbour
View from the top of the signal tower
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We just had a coffee at the cafe and didn’t really look at the menu.
I think it’s the sort of place that Probus clubs and the like might go during the week. I’ll enjoy going back one day.
Once again, we both commented that when you hear overseas visitors commenting on what a beautiful city Sydney is, they’re right. There’s so much to discover in out own back yard, and it’s really quite cool to be doing things here that we’ve never done before.
Garden Island Info website
Ferry timetable (you can ONLY access the public areas of Garden Island by ferry.)
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View from the top of the signal tower |
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And the periscope actually works! 360 degree view of the harbour. |
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OK. I will |
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An historic 18′ skiff at Clarke Island |
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Beautiful Port Jackson Fig |
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Simply gorgeous! |
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Signal Tower |
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Signal Tower |
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From near the wharf |
So, this weekend, we... 
