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.
The last few years we’ve gone to the World Press Photo Exhibition at the State Library in Macquarie St and enjoyed it, so we went again today.
Lots of confronting images of war, death, poverty , illness, mental health, disease and deprivation, as well as sport, science, politics and the like.
Such a reinforcement of how lucky we are to live in Australia, and how important it is to work to maintain the peace and freedom we so often take for granted.
It was also a great opportunity to catch up with Annie and Stephen McRobie after their fabulous Spain and Morocco holiday over breakfast at the Circular Quay Pullman Q Dining
Great start to the weekend.
After last week’s little mosey along the Cook’s River from Tempe, we went back there and headed the other way. Turning left at Tempe Station and heading towards the airport, while I guess we didn’t expect to find pristine waters to swim and fish in that close to the airport, we were nonetheless surprised to see some pretty substantial waterfront developments being built around Wolli Creek. If they keep cleaning the river up it’ll be an attractive real estate investment methinks.
And we really didn’t think we’d be enjoying a drink at a club on the Cook’s River… we know where we’ll head for breakfast near the airport next time. Was quite nice!
Plenty of development at Wolli Creek
Disappointing… no fishing in the canal 😉 (Frankly, I’ve heard that lead poisoning isn’t as bad as they make out)
There’s a few nice parks and playgrounds and BBQs along the path
Wolli Creek, and “The Rowers” club on the river.
Shelter shed – you could shoot a 70’s movie in some of these places!
Fishing. Unbelievable!
A hard earned drink at “The Rowers”
The path goes right up to Sydney International Airport
Google Best place to watch the sunset in Sydney and one of the suggestions is by the Bridge at Kirribilli.
After a busy week away for me, Robyn and I headed out at about 430 pm and bought some fish and chips before walking down to Jeffrey St Wharf at Kirribilli. There’s a lovely waterfront path heading east from the wharf. It must be a nice spot – we were the only two people there without a bridal party in tow – photographers, brides, grooms and their parties were the order of the day. A beautiful afternoon for their big day 🙂
The city looks gorgeous from here, especially at sunset. It’s a beautiful harbour.
That really IS Savignon Blanc! You’ll just have to believe me 😉
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
Easter, and an opportunity to enjoy the company of Phil and Jill Walker, friends from Canberra and the brains behind this year’s alphabet theme.
After 2 days of solid rain, the sun came out and a chance to enjoy a lovely breakfast at Ripples Cafe at Chowder Bay before heading towards Neutral Bay to walk around Cremorne Point and show off the most beautiful kilometre this city has to offer.
Chowder Bay
Ripples Cafe at Chowder Bay
Georges Head, with the city in the background.
Georges Head, with South Head in the background.
Georges Head, with the city in the background.
Cremorne Point, such a beautiful spot so close to the Harbour Bridge and city
Cremorne Point has beautiful gardens, some established years ago by some of the local residents and maintained now by the council.
And this, just a kilometre or so from the heart of the city.
A beautiful morning after 2 solid days of rain
Lighthouse at the end of the point, looking towards the Heads
Near Cremorne Ferry Wharf
The western shore of the path, facing The Bridge
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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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
Well snapped, Robyn! Image: metaljar
Our favourite 3 or 4 houses from our walk last year; on the Bilgola Bends. Image: metaljar
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Looking over Dover Heights to the city. Image: metaljar
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!
So, this weekend, we... 
