Melbourne

(written on the 4th of February)

It’s been quite a busy couple of weeks. We’ve reached the one month mark, and we haven’t had any major injuries or troubles and we even still kind of like each other! We’ve spent time in Blairgowry, Mornington, Abbotsford, Melbourne, Fitzroy and Lorne.

We had a great Aus Day with Jack's family, lazing in the pool, attempting a game of tennis and wandering along Blairgowrie back beach. We headed up to Melbourne to stay with Em the next day and stopped at a winery on the way.

Once in Melbourne, we ate burritos from a cool little taco shack, and went to a club where it was a lesbian night. The next few days were so blistering hot we couldn’t do anything other than lay about the house and sweat. When it had finally cooled down we spent a couple of days in the city and Queen Victoria markets.

If you go to Melbourne there are some foods you have got to try:

Duck and Plum Crepe @ Creperie in the alley opposite Flinders St Station

Pork dumplings in china town

Watermelon Granitas @ Pelegrini’s on Bourke St

Visit the Sweet and Nut Shop on Russel St

Bratwurst w/ onion, sour crout, cheese and mustard in Vic markets Deli

Buy 6 for $6 hot Jam doughnuts bottom of clothes section at Vic markets

Jack and I ended up swapping shoes to help with the blisters so wear appropriate footwear. 

I somehow managed to have an unheard of amount of self control and only bought one pair of sunnies (which I did need)! Go me! But we splurged a little on strawberries, blackberries, avocados, tomatoes, triple cream brie, dips and olive bread =)

We had an absolutely delicious dinner with John and Peirs; an entree of scallops (in their shell) with butter and rum, for dinner we had whole snapper with orange and fennel and coconut mash with a side of rocket and tomato. Yummy! We then headed out to a bar opening nearby.

We left Melbourne and ventured to Lorne where we stayed for a night next to the beach. Next stop is Birregurra!

S.