Today was a lovely spring Sunday and Sanna, Damien and I made the 1 hours drive North to famous Palm beach. Famous as its where Home & Away is from/filmed.
The friendly local lifeguards didn’t mind us having a go.
My highlight of the day was at a beautiful place called church point, which was a quiet place where we sat on the end of a boat jetty, eating good food drinking some beers listening to a local live band.
Wow we have a good problem here, fat husband alert aka Chubby Hubby!
I have a problem as this Chubby Hubby was so good and I came home from the pub a little drunk I nearly ate the whole tub in one sitting! Thats nearly half a litre of yummyness, no wonder why I need to go on a diet.
This is all that was left!
Vanilla malt ice cream with peanutty fudge covered pretzels with fudge and peanut buttery swirls. Wow the peanut flavour and crunchy pretzels combination is perfect. This has got to be one of Ben & Jerrys best!
The fact I couldn’t stop myself with this one means it has to be a 9!
Beddy rating 9 outta 10!
What a view!
Today Damien and I headed out for a days trek to the Royal National Park just 1hr’s drive from the centre of Sydney. It’s so close to Sydney but feels so far away from a city, this is one of the beauties of Sydney over a larger sprawling city like London or Paris, 1hr away from the centre and you are in total countryside.
Before I share more photos, here is a short video Damien took on his 7 year old camera so excuse the quality, its in English and French.
This area is called the Burning palms
Can you make out the shape of that tree above Damien’s head, the strong coastal winds shaped it that way.
A lovely bottle of red wine with Olives and sandwiches for lunch 🙂
Guess what everyone in the UK reading this, its still winter and we’re having our first barbie :p (sticking tounge out)
Time for more Ben & Jerrys ice cream indulgence! This time Triple Caramel Chunk which is caramel ice cream which isnt too caramel’y and caramel swirls with little chocolate covered caramel cups.
Im not so sure this is one of the best in the range, maybe I’ve had too many yummy salted caramel flavoured things lately, ive had better tasting caramel.
I think the base caramel icecream wasnt too caramel’y to emphasis the caramel swirls, I dont think this was a good move.
Overall not the most exciting Ben & Jerrys I’ve had.
Beddy rating 6 out of 10.
Ah my lovely wife Sanna.
Reverse helmet wearing women in the day.
Beautiful wife by night 🙂
My video on Kobe’s best beef in the world being prepared by a Kobe chef: http://youtu.be/Zjat6ykiirQ
My video on Japans Shinkansen aka ‘The bullet train’: http://youtu.be/Xnx2po9Pp20
It is our last evening in the city of Kobe by the sea and the last time team Tokyo shot will be together. We took a cable car up to the Kobe herb gardens in the mountains behind the city.
Team Tokyo shot the last time – Dan, Tan, James, Mark, Sanna, Jade & John
We visited a food court area in one of the department stores of the city. We found one part that were making this very popular food, it was a cross between a curry puff and a donut.
The chefs (all looking like surgeons) had prooved dough and would place the filling inside and wrap them up into a ball.
Then they would deep fry for 3 minutes
Then served up hot. There were 3 savoury flavours, mostly curry tasting, and 1 sweet red bean flavour.
We them explored the food court more sample different flavours, some more western like the banana muffin.
This was all the takeaway we sampled, spot the very english item?
