Fancy eggplant

Not much to report from the national capital this week, though I did have a capital experience on Monday night, dining out with work at a tasty restaurant called Aubergine. Pretty fancy for me…apparently a few of the pollies have been known to hang out here, there may have even been some there Monday night but I wouldn’t have known better.

It was a pleasant weekend and Saturday lunchtime Lauren and I visited a little market which was a bit hippy-ish (knitted beanies everywhere) and had some Salvadorian food, which consisted of chicken and beans in a kind of cornmeal / potato case topped with chilli sauce. The market was in part of a community arts complex and Canberra being the happening place it is, the youth were out in force at the youth centre.


On Sunday I met up with a friend, Jodie, who has just bought a car and so was keen to test it out. It was a lovely autumn day and we had a little drive beside the lake and an amble through golden Weston Park, which is on the south west of Lake Whirly Burley Gubbins.

Following that we popped around the lake and to the Botanic Gardens for more of an amble and afternoon tea - disappointing cakes in Canberra terms though – but the gardens are always relaxing. From there it was a drive up the ever beautiful Mount Ainslie, where I seem to always take the same photos! Hopefully the tree adds a little different perspective on the landmarks of the Bush Capital.

Enjoy your May Day back home, our next public holiday is the Queen’s birthday which is amazing because a) it isn’t really the Queen’s big day and b) we don’t even get that day off in her majesty’s homeland (by that I’m meaning the UK not Germany). Auf Wiedersehen!