A Busy Week

 I've had a busy week so far.

I went out to North Fitzroy on Monday afternoon to visit my podiatrist and came back via Melbourne Central. I had bought some sample butters at the Christmas food market and really, really liked the black garlic butter. According to the butter-maker's website, it was stocked at the Pantre Asian grocery in Melbourne Central. Alas - it is not. That producer goes to some of the markets I go to, so I'll ask them the next time I run across them. In the meantime, I could, of course, make my own black garlic butter. If I could find a supply of black garlic. That shouldn't be hard, if I keep my eyes open for it.

On Tuesday afternoon I went to my first class at the KonichiWhat Japanese language school. It's only quite new, is quite small and is in Collins Street. I could walk there but, being lazy, I took the tram. I had done an ability check before I booked my class but it quickly became apparent that I was in a class that was too easy for me. I already knew what we were doing and the other students did not. I have changed my class to a more advanced one, which will be early on Wednesday evenings. I've looked at the course material and I know some of it but not all of it. See how we go.

I will, of course, keep doing my first thing in the morning, twice weekly online classes which I very much enjoy.

I went to work on Wednesday.

Lindsey came around on Thursday and we walked around to the Newquay Promenade. Two of the heritage ships had been moored over there for a couple of days and I wanted to go and look at them. As you walk down the promenade there is a fish and chip shop on the waterside, plus two restaurants.  There are restaurants and wine bars on the other side of the promenade but they don't tend to be open at lunchtimes. The two waterside restaurants, Berth and Cargo, are very similar in appearance and have similar sorts of menus. We decided to try Berth and then Cargo another time.

We had a table next to the water

Lunchtime view

In addition to their regular menu, they also have a lunch menu, with all items a flat $25. This was my steak sandwich. You really can't complain about what you get for $25!

Then we went to look at the heritage ships. The Enterprize and the Alma Doepel were there. I'm not sure where The Wattle has gone. They had to leave their berths on the other side of the harbour at the beginning of January.

The Enterprize and the Tram Boat

Alma Doepel

We might have gone for a wander in The District before heading back to my place.

This was my view this morning as I walked along Harbour Esplanade to catch the tram to work

There are often people rowing on the harbour first thing in the morning but it's usually eights. I don't recall having seen lots of one and two person rowing boats before.

This, in contrast, was Austin's view as he drove to work this morning

Today marks five months since Brandy, Whiskey and I moved into our flat. I no longer feel as though I am living in a holiday flat, especially now that I've cosied the flat up a bit. But I am still very much enjoying the waterside, city lifestyle