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Week 10 ~ J is for Joy Ride

Posted: March 8, 2015 in Sydney Harbour
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A beautiful, sunny Saturday morning – a great day to do that H for Helicopter Joy Flight we put off a few weeks ago because of the weather.

John from Heliscenic at Bankstown was our pilot – friend of a friend who gave us a great rate (Thank you Di Lewis!!)

WHAT A BLAST! Your wedding or birth of your kids is meant to be the best 90 minutes of your life…? NOT ANY MORE!

We retraced our 2014 year of walking the beaches and harbour.

We flew from Bankstown, over Parramatta, Pennant Hills, Hornsby and the F3/M1 to Lion Island and Barrenjoey,
then down the coast to Cronuilla, back up the coast to the Heads, then
straight down Sydney Harbour, over the Harbour Bridge down to Rhodes than back to Bankstown.

Absolutely sensational!

Thanks John Rappell. 0411 234 164

Presuming no one wants to actually watch a GoPro video of the 90 odd minutes in normal time, I’ve uploaded 4x normal speed and 8x normal speed videos.

All the images uploaded to flickr

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Home and Away. Image: metaljar

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Well snapped, Robyn! Image: metaljar

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Our favourite 3 or 4 houses from our walk last year; on the Bilgola Bends. Image: metaljar

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Warriewood / Narrabeen Image: metaljar

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South Head Image: metaljar

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Looking over Dover Heights to the city. Image: metaljar

Week 9 ~ I is for ice-cream

Posted: March 1, 2015 in Cafe, Inner West
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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 5 ~ E is for Everleigh Markets and Breakfast at Erskinville

Posted: February 1, 2015 in Markets
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IMG_3676Every Saturday, local NSW farmers and artisan food producers bring their fresh and seasonal produce to the Everleigh Farmers’ Market.

About 70 stallholders sell fresh produce including fruit and vegetables, meat, dairy, bread, olive oil, wine and more.

There were stalls there with produce from as far as Orange and Bateman’s Bay.

IMG_3675We had a wander, bought some dips and fruit and tried a few differnt things. Great markets.

We then went to Erskinville where we had breakfast at The Bakerman Cafe, out the front of the old Erko Post Office. We rang Nic McRobie to tell him we were around and enjoyed a coffee and catch-up with him and Jo.

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