Just spent a week in London talking to the organiser of the 2012 games about RedTxt opportunities. The site is amazing. There are some photos here.
If you like seafood fresh from the catch, these days you really have to catch it yourself of go down to the market and make friends with a fishmonger. However, at the township of Strahan in the southwest corner of Tasmania there’s a fish and chip shop that sells the freshest and best value seafood […]
Here are a few images from Tassie. Some shot on an iPhone and some on a Nikon D3s and D700:
If you have an iPhone with a 3 SIM it will roam onto Telstra’s NextG network in Tassie. Very good coverage. It’s a UMTS 850 network which the iPhone works with. However, if you have a handset that doesn’t support UMTS 850 like the Sony K610i it will not roam onto Telstra’s GSM 900/1800 network. […]
So Kim sets sail on the expedition in a few hours time. Here’s some pics from the 2007 trip and a link to some future pics.
Here are the results for the Division 5 Girls Giant Slalom on 29 August 2008: 1st: Mia Low, 2nd Emily Esposito, 3rd Kathryn Parker. Link to full results.
We’re staying for 3 nights on the way to Ushuaia at Five Cool Rooms and for 5 nights at the Home Hotel after returning from Ushuaia/Antarctica.
Doing some final planning for where to stay, see and eat in Buenos Aires. The NY Times has a good summary, and an article titled 36 Hours in Buenos Aires, Argentine NightsPlaces to eat: Dining Finds | La CabreraAnd an article on Ushuaia
OK – I just found my old blogger account and thought I’d rejuvenate it after a 2 year hiatus. I’m going to write about my photography, food and wine stuff and travel thoughts right here! To get things started, here are some recent photos of the Australian and Victorian Barista championships: http://www.thelows.org/syd/austbarcomp/http://www.thelows.org/syd/austbarheats/http://www.thelows.org/syd/VicBarComp/
AC554 from Vancouver to LAX and then QF26 from LAX to MEL via Auckland got us home! Greta had a great flight – slept for 10 hours on the long LAX-AKL sector.
After dinner, we went to the Mountain Equipment Coop for a bit of last minute shopping. Great shop – like REI it’s a Coop and run for its members.
We went to Tojo’s tonight with Andrzej, Carolyn and Stefan. Here’s a pic of me and Hidekazu Tojo. Andrzej’s been going there since he opened so is a very long term regular! Had some very cool dishes including crab, blue-fin toro, sable fish and shitake mushrooms…
Ate at Banana Leaf Broadway location at lunchtime. Tokyo Tom joined us – what a nice surprise. The crab and the black cod were the dishes of the day. Good value and delicious.
Went to Caffe Artgiano (Hastings store with the full kitchen) for breakfast and Cafe O for an afternoon espresso. After not having a decent coffee for past 8 weeks it was heaven. Matteo at Artigiano and Ira at Cafe O made some great shots.
Ate a local speciality called a Geoduck tonight at Sun Sui Wah… Thinly sliced and quickly pan fried with a spicy soy sauce. Similar to abalone, conch or squid.
We’re off at 1pm. Staying at the Opus Hotel in Yaletown. Got a few tips on restaurants to try:C Restaurant, Sun Sui Wah, Tojo’s and Banana Leaf.
Tom giving Kim some tips on top of Glacier Express.
We had our last Whistler dinner at Sachi…
Found this web site (Healthspace) that publishes the food inspection reports of Whistler restaurants. Our regular restaurants fared OK.
This is the wheat-free bread we’ve been eating every day. Made in Vancouver, the supermarkets here get a few loaves a week. Hard to find, it’s excellent. Wish we had it in Melbourne.
Greta and Mia went snowboarding today and I finished editing the video of them when they were out last. As usual, you’ll need Quicktime player to watch it. Here it is (30MB): Snowboarding movie.
Tom Akama’s a private ski instructor by day and restaurateur by night. His restaurant is inside the Westin. Great suki yaki.
