Day 5 - Surry Hills & Darling Harbour

I woke up this morning with a saucepan next to my bed. Apparently I was a drunk mess last night but I don't remember that part so I think Kate is making it up.

We headed to Surry Hills today and had a tour of the area and Darling Harbour. Surry Hills is cute, it has cafes/restaurants and there is a nice vibe. It's next to the CBD and we've decided we want to live there. We discovered something new about the trains that made us love them even more!

We went for lunch at The Clock. It's a 'laidback eclectic pub' with different areas, there is a balcony upstairs that lets you look down over the road in the sunshine, a courtyard out the back with colourful seats and leafy canopies outside. There's also a room with a pool table and then the main area as you come into the bar.

The menu is great with some standard and also adventurous options. I opted for the BBQ Brisket Burger, Hot Mustard Aioli, Pickles and Shoestring Fries. Followed by a cocktail made by a beaut waiter which had three different rums, a light topping spray of absinthe mixed with passionfruit, grapefruit and sugar. Delissssh.

After lunch we headed to Messina who have the most impressive list of icecream flavours i've ever seen! It was a really tough choice and i've decided to try every flavour over the next year. I went for a pretty boring choice of Rocky Road, it had nuts, marshmallows and raspberry jelly lumps within it. Kate had the Salted Caramel and White Chocolate icecream. You can see all of their flavours on their website.

After all of our food we walked over to Darling Harbour where there is an ice rink open as part of their Australian 'Winter Wonderland'. It's crazy, its 20 degrees with bright sunshine and a few clouds. They have a snow tent area which has white christmas trees and fake snow on the floor for guests to take pictures in a 'winter wonderland'. Air NewZeland have sponsored a giant inflatable snow globe and there is a fake iceburg on the water in the harbour. It's mental that this is their winter and they think 20 degrees is cold enough to justify an ice rink.

Pretending to be cold in the winter wonderland

These birds walk around like pigeons do at home...

Before I moved here I was really worried about the standard of chocolate. Hot countries add something to the mix to prevent the bars from melting and they never taste as nice. I bow down to Cadbury Marvellous Creations, they have SO many different flavours here that are soo much better than the UK. Even standard dairy milk flavours are better as they have more options. Here are some of the few loves i've found over the last two days.

Mojito Ice Tea!!

  

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