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We’re on the road again…
Making future plans over a Thai lunch
And just like that, Stockholm turned into Mudgee, Mudgee turned into Woy Woy, and Woy Woy turned into North Sydney:)
We looked at it Friday, said yes then no. Decided to take it during breakfast with Tim & Mia this morning and Monday we move in! Fast decisions. Love it.
Its so strange though that here in Australia you need to buy fridge and washing machine. I think its included in Sweden, maybe I am wrong? My mum said that its the same in Persia. Its like that in most countries I guess. Just coming from a country such as Sweden you often forget or take for granted the good stuff they actually offer their citizens. Unfortunately what they fail to offer is, I guess life quality. And sun ☀hahahaHope people out there have a less stress filled day….My God its alot to organize in a move!!!
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A place worth calling home
Just look at this place! Wow. We have been inside alot of apartments. Alot. Moving often, Ambrose work, Right now we are searching for a new home in Sydney. And yesterday we walked in this beauty 🙂
I absolutely love seeing this, when an architect done a little extra and not just made an apartment or house, but instead created a place with genius little “extras” that makes you go Wow! That’s talent.
This is a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment on the 10th floor with this “glass box” attached to the master bedroom and also the living room. Its in North Sydney so it would be wonderful for Ambrose to just be able to walk to work in like 5 min. Its 800 m from Crows Nest, an area I love, Vibrant and full of cafe, bars and restaurants.
After walking in this apartment we wanted to move in straight away. And then we got to see the rooftop pool, gym and lounge area…….
I could live here:)
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Chinatown
So much to choose from!
A must for Ramen lovers
Tonkutsu 10.5 $
We had a couple of days where I literately though I was going to melt. It was around 40 degrees hot and the humidify…..ohhh that damn humidity, it must have been like 99%. I saw a lizard in the house the other day (even they are getting inside to survive the heat haha) and because I grew up in Sweden where its too cold for anything living to survive, I am NOT used to living creepy things crawling around my home! Ambrose and his family don’t understand me at all so while I was screaming and jumping on our bed Ambrose was calmly licking an ice cream and observing his father petting that damn thing.
Ever since that incident I have been hiding in our bedroom but finally I had enough and went to the city. It was drizzling rain all day which is such a relief after those days with the heat from hell. After my Microdermabrasion appointment in the morning I head towards Chinatown. A place that is really lovely actually and often forgotten to visit while you are in Sydney.
There are alot of inviting restaurants once you walk along hhe area, but I read a recommendation on a Ramen place. This place has no fancchyyy paanschyy stugg going on. No hip decor, no table service. Nothing. Its actually located in a small corner inside a food court. This place is filled with squished in little “restaurants with all types of Asian cuisines. If you are here, trust me do choose the Ramen place. You wont be disappointed. I promise you.
Their specialty is Tonkutsu Ramen which is that thick broth made out of pork bones, fat and collagen. They cook it for hours and hours to be able to get that creamy, buttery and rich broth which symbolize a perfect Ramen.
They do have many varieties of RAmen here but if you are after the Tonkutsu, avoid visiting between 3-5pm as this is the time the pork bone is removed from the broth and preparation for dinner is done.Its called; Gamushara Ramen
211/ 25-29 Dixon St, HaymarketFun fact! Gamushara is the meaning of doing something so intensely and extremely so that you forget how it affects the people or environment around you. 🙂
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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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The gift
Sunday morning we continued the celebrations haha. For his present I had a helicopter ride over Sydney planed as a surprise. The best was to see how happy he got.
We really took our time at the hotel in the morning, late checkout and the we went to have a big nice birthday breakfast at One Six Nine Cafe on 169 Alison Rd. Recommend this place to if you are ever around Randwick area.Because this was a surprise, I did not want him to know anything until we literately drove up to the damn helicopters. But having to deal with Ambrose, keeping this a secret was not easy. He is without a doubt Curious Bob or whatever he is called. So many questions from one person Aahhhggg…..makes it very very hard to plan and execute a surprise.
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Mi Amore’s birthday celebrations
What an amazing day! No wait, what an amazing weekend! And all for an amazing human being. Aside from my sisters and mum, Ambrose is without a doubt my favorite human being. Everyone should have an Ambrose in their lives 🙂
That´s why it feels even better that he had one of his best birthdays so far. If anyone deserves it, its him.
So much was going on.
Friday – checking in to our beautiful hotel. Dinner and drinks with our south American friends in Clovelly.
Saturday- the whole group got together to celebrate Ambrose the way he wanted, playing barefoot Balls. It was waay too much alcohol involved, at least for me. I’m such an disastrous day drinker, I don’t get why!?!? Anyway, it was crazy fun and I think everyone had as much fun as we did. Somehow we managed to get our self’s from that location to Bondi and dinner and more drinks. Of course we managed to lose bits and peaces of the party. (apparently they were dancing upstairs hahaha) but by this time we could barely walk so we took a cab back to our hotel. Got some snacks up to the room, put on air conditioner and loved our room and life even more.
Sunday- a Big breakfast at this great cafe (will write another bit where I can recommend all the great restaurants we ate at this last few days) the staight to Ambrose’s big surprise birtday gift – a 30 min helicopter ride over Sydney 🙂
We then drove back to the house where everyone had got together and made this amazing birthday lunch. Thank God for great family!
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Golden heals
Today I found these beauties. Golden and everything! Cant wait to wear them with my new gold choker and maybe a white dress. My new black heals just felt edgy and kind of an complete accessory on its own so I had to get them too. Best is that they are comfortable, well at least for the first couple of hours of the night 🙂
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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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