Food & Health
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night out with the Latino’s
I finally got my shit together and managed to organize a dinner with Raymundo. We used to live together back in the days in Bondi. We haven’t seen each other in around 2 years now. All these times I’ve been back and forth but I stayed mainly in Mudgee with Ambrose, and every time we drove to Sydney either we had plans or Raymundo did. AAnnnyywways, he has a new (well they been together like 2 years now…) Camilla, she is from Chile like him and she is great! Beautiful and lovely.
We were laughing until they brought us the check, as if “thank you for coming, now fuck off we are closing” haha
There is something about Raymundo that always (!) makes me laugh. Have such great memories with him and Jose, our other friend that I used to live with. Kindest and funniest guys!
Cant wait until we travel to Chile to visit them. Heard its amazing over there!Today I just got back from the workout that absolutely murdered every part of my body. Only wish my neck could be better so I can work even harder 🙁
Its around 37 degrees right now so I’m melting while writing this. Got to get back to learning how this Instagram business works Zzzzzzzz. Promised my friends back home to have the same like this but on Instagram. Its easier for them to keep in touch that way but come on! Its going to take me forever to figure that out.So far I have a name ; nicci.marquart AND I have one picture out there YEAY. The point is to have that as a preview of what I’m actually writing here.
Going to try work it out…..in ehh 10 minutes…..Oh almost forgot…the restaurant you see here.
We love Vietnamese and got a recommendation for this place called Uyen on 27 Albion St. Think it was in Bronte. The food was tasty and it was really busy which always is a good sign. Half open kitchen and you could see how authentic it was. The decor, the chefs, all of it felt like you were eating in a restaurant in Vietnam. Loved that! Prices was Not like back in Vietnam though hahaha. That was aaaallll Sydney, but still fair enough. I had the pork with black bean sauce. Very Yum.___________________________________________________
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Yoga
My last day at this place. I know it is really good for me right now to focus on healing my neck and doing this kind of remedial postures from classes like this, but I’ve got to say that I really really miss my old Yoga classes. I used to go every day to the place on Hall street in Bondi. The teachers there were super good at what they were doing. Sooooon I will be better and I will be back at that place 🙂
Such bad quality on these pictures but probably because the room temperature was over 40 degrees and humid as hell. But I just had to show this picture so you can see my ugly mat. hahaha I don’t even think its an Yoga mat, I didn’t have one so I just took whatever I could find at Ambrose’s parents house. Its this old washed out – military green colored thick thing. Its like broken all over and makes sounds (!?) when you do certain positions. Hahaha everyone else have these beautiful, nice trendy mat’s and there I am, looking like I’m about to go to the forest to camp on my mat.Even the teacher has hinted a couple of times that I should maybe invest in a new mat. She said that she see me “struggle” on mine during her classes 🙂 🙂
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13 hours
Walked Ambrose to work. Best views!
“Brewtown Newtown”. A must try for breakfast and their excellent coffee.
Sums up the “looks” of Newtown. Very charming. Very London.
Christmas decorations are up at QVB.
Swarovski were clearly in charge of the Christmas decor.
Going Malaysian for dinner.Had such an looongg day in the city yesterday. We drove to Sydney around 5:50am. Got to walk over this little bride that gave us the best view! We had some coffees in the park right outside Ambros’s office, everything was great but just when he left for work I just found myself overwhelmed with all these draining thoughts that I actually had 10 hours to kill (!) before we were meeting for the couples massages I had booked us in for earlier this week….
Lately I have found myself feeling exactly like this. Overwhelmed, anxious, sad and its just so annoying. What is the worst is that I am tired, and I don’t mean a little, I mean like extremely tired. Absolutely exhausted. Just the other day I called Ambrose because I got really scared after driving the car back home and I realized that I was like an zombie, completely out of it like I was tired and drunk at the same time. And this is while driving on a very busy road!
Now I know I understand that alot has changed. I was super busy at my last job as a coordinator at Karolinska Hospital. We were just in the process of re-recruiting and totally re-restructuring the entire organization of the hospital and this is one of Europe´s biggest and most influential University hospitals so there was alot all the time. Right around this time I was in a accident, the bus I was on had a big crash and I (and others on the bus) really hurt my neck. Ever since that alot have changed, in my daily routines, my overall health and even though I continuously have been to Dr´s and physiotherapy, I’m still in alot of pain everyday. This alone makes me tired and now that we are waiting to receive our Partner Visa I am not aloud to anything in Australia. Being injured and on hold for a Visa turns out to be a very very bad combination hahaha.Anyway, enough of this. Just wanted to write this down, to get it off me a bit but also because writing is suppose to help when we overthink. And when you have as much free time as I do, well then you over-analyze EVERYTHING 🙂
Here was our lovely Thursday; Breakfast at “Brewtown Newtown” was something I do recommend! I had the poached chicken,bacon,tomato/salad and orange aioli sandwich and iced coffee with sparkling water. Please do order that! Just have a look at their menu: http://www.brewtownnewtown.com/
No Wifi. Decent prices. Sparkling water to the table instead of just plain tap which is very nice. A broad range of interesting and delicious coffee´s. Excellent variety to eat. cozy and trendy atmosphere, but gets very busy. Friendly staff. Will definitely return to this place.Then I wondered around the city. Newtown in the morning, met Ambrose midday to look at a apartment for us in Crows Nest. Unfortunately it was to small for us, but I loved the neighborhood. Back to the inner city and finished our day with a couples massage and then went to China Town for excellent Malaysian dinner on Sussex St. We have no real experience of this cuisine so we just ordered alot of different dishes and hoped for the best! Really yummy, unfortunately I don’t know the name of the restaurant.
Drove back home 13 hours later. We both fell asleep 2 seconds after our heads touched the pillow.
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Crocodile or Kangaroo for dinner?
I cant believe I actually never even thought about this, that here in Australia they have the option to buy a crocodile, Emu or Kangaroo steak in their ordinary grocery stores !?! I did some Tabata and went afterwords to get dinner, and this is what I find on the shelf right besides the organic beef. Ive had kangaroo before, or I have at least taste it. Its okay, lean and kind of gamy taste. But crocodile…I don’t know, just too scared of the actual animal to be able to even want to try the meat. Dont know if that makes any sense but I mean Come On! Who eats dragons !?!? This coming from a Persian, we eat lamb stomach, chicken feet and fish heads….hahaha Yeaahh go Persians!Showed Ambrose this picture and of course he wants me to get some crocodile next time I’m at the shops. Ehh Never. He is sooo on his own with this one.
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Our Weekend
Its Sunday morning and we just came home from breakfast at Pearl beach. A quick rest at home before heading to birthday lunch for Anastasia and Leonard at the Entrance. Here are some pictures from our weekend containing alot of birthdays. On Friday I was invited to lady’s lunch at the club in Etalong by aunt Rey. Ambrose´s mum Deborah used to go with all the ladies so I was excited to go and see what ut was all about. But aunt Rey had somehow misunderstood that the time was changed to 6:30 PM so we were all by our self at the club. We decided to bring in some oysters and a plate of squid and just enjoy the lunch anyways. She even got me to gamble a bit ( I am normaly against gambling ) and we actually won 100 dollars! After lunch I took the train into the City to have some drinks at a bear garden in Surry Hills, walked along to the new park with some famous architecture design building ( I never remember what the names are ) before dumplings for dinner with Nick and Leonard. We had Messina for dessert. Oh how Ive missed there ice cream!! I tried almost all there new flavors but in the end, like always (!) I get Salted caramel & Mango and poached figs & Amaretto._______________________________________________________
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Wedding day :)
My latest recomendation. If you are in Rhodes have stop at “Lid & Jar” . Super friendly staff, nice breakfast, free wifi and not expensive. And afterwards go to the asian grocery store just next to Lid & Jar.
Went to mine, Hanie and Jasmins sushi train place in the city. Not as nice as when I had them there…
This is the UNBELIEVABLE unromantic place where we registered our relationship. Our “priest” was called Augustus, just like my fav character from Disney and I laughed the whole time we were there because the whole thing felt so bizarre. 🙂
I don’t know what these tree´s are called but I think they look so nice with their purple flowers.
Registration dinner was at a this great Greek restaurant called “Xenos” on Burlington St in Crows Nest. Ambrose had the Crackling Pork Belly and I had the mousaka with greek salad. Both really delisious. This place has outdoor settings, great vibe, and a decent vine list. Its cosy and the staff were nice as well as their prices. I especially liked their bar setting and the open kitchen. The only thing missing was the greek music which would make the ambiance too much more authentic in my wiew. Also the fact that they had stupid TV screens!!? Such a turnoff when restaurants have that. We are already planing to go back to have their specialty; pork with scallops. The table next to us were having it and we got jealous. Good to remember is that their portions are quite big so don’t order too much. Overall, Im super glad this was where we had our registration dinner 🙂
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Arabic in western sydney
We decided to drive out to western part of Sydney today because Ambrose wanted to see the new development out there. This apparently means someone built a bunch of hoses in the middle of nowhere that all cost over 1 million Australian dollars. There was an opening to a 5 bedroom house that we had a look at. The house was beautiful, I will say that. BUT, it was in the middle of nowhere ( apparently they are building shops/ public transport soon) and when you open the windows, you could almost touch your neighbors house. That´s how close they where together. This house was 2 mil aud, that is over 13.000 000 Swedish Kr ???!!! Fucking ridiculous.
After this we went to an middle eastern restaurant called “El Jannah”. I lokked it up on my restaurant app: Foursquare. Ambrose said all his friends love this place. When we arrived the place was packed. And the food was… blah. Unfortunately, the meat was not tender at all. the flavors were all there so I believe they have potential for sure. After picking up some groceries and get some baklava from a really cool place “El Sweets” we went back home to safety. (western Sydney is suppose to be a bit let safe then the rest of Sydney)
Going to bed now, too much in my head. Good nigh 🙂
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The Fisherman’s Wharf
Its been such an incentive day, emotionally at least.We decide to start our day with the beach to surf and swim. Breakfast at The Little Piggy. Back home to do some paperwork for Ambrose, me and Leonard cleaned out our cars. Then we had a beach walk, got amazing seafood from The Fisherman’s Wharf at Woy Woy, which is such an great place to get fresh seafood. The staff are really great and I really like that you can tell they loved their job! We BBQ the fish at the terrace watching the storm while listening to Pavarotti. Papa G came home and joint our little party. I never drink so I got sick right after we went to bed. But worth it though, such good night!
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