Sydney Food and Wine Fair

When better then lunch time to blog about the Sydney Food and Wine Fair. It was of course Anne's birthday on Friday & I went with her to the Sydney Food & Wine Fair at Hyde Park on Saturday to sample to g-o-o-o-o-o-o-d food from some of the finest restaurants in Sydney. We met at the corner of DJ at 11:30 & waited for her Japanese 'friend of a friend' who was relatively new in town (Kei, see below). We got there early (Fair 12noon - 2pm) so we could have a bit of a walk around & gawk at what we could get before lining up for tickets, but unfortunately 1/2 hr was still not early enough as the line for tickets were already long. As such, we didn't actually get to the ticket booths until probably 20 past, & after more queuing at the stalls finally got to sit down by the fountain for some real food. I took pictures of everything that we had (bar the quail, which I only remembered that I forgot to pic after I have already devoured it) - smoked salmon with truffle aoili, duck sald with pear, mushroom hamburger, fried bananas, chili quail with lemon, & of course a dessert favourite, mango & passionfruit pavlova, all washed down with 2 glasses of champagne. Yes, there were only the three of us, so what better way of walking all that food off afterwards than a stroll around the nearby Royal Botanic Gardens. It was such a nice day as well, warm-ish but not hot, sunny. A great day.

Finally bought my new JVC Everio GZMG37 digital hard disk camcorder. Well, actually bought it a couple of weeks ago. Have already animal-tested it on the dog, & will try it in a real event 1st time this coming sat for Anne's birthday party & to record birthday messages for Nat. More events coming for recording - there is of course the wedding in HK & my related trips, back in time for geog xmas lunch, & NYE!! Alas, the still image function of the JVC is not good, so I shelled out & bought a new Canon PowerShot S70 as well (been meaning to upgrade the digital cam for a couple of years now, finally found a great bargain at Bing Lee - $600 off 'cos it's the 2nd-latest model & last 1 in stock!!). So many things to claim back GST on way out ...