There’s very much a fixed list of what is appropriate to eat at breakfast and what is not. It changes around the world of course – I’m unlikely to find the calming rice soups I enjoyed in Thailand popping up in the cafes of London any time soon. So even though we were visiting Sydney’s Fish Market, the largest in the southern hemisphere, the fish market cafes were still offering bacon and eggs. We defied convention and had fried whitebait, chips and a half-dozen oysters for breakfast! It was good. The oysters in particular were great; small and salty with none of the bitterness many oysters have on the aftertaste. Though possibly coffee wasn’t the right beverage accompaniment.
So we bought some nibbles for a picnic lunch, including a piece of criminally expensive goat cheese, and then got on the famous Manly Ferry. This ferry is such a renowned way of getting fine views of the Sydney Harbour for cheap that most of the tourists sharing it with us showed no sign of doing anything but getting to the Manly end, having a coffee, and then getting back on for the return trip. We were walking the 10km Manly Scenic Walkway which wanders back towards Sydney past a mixture of beaches, expensive shoreline housing, and then the relative wilderness of the Sydney Harbour National Park. It was a very scenic walk indeed, as the views, the environment and the elevation changed with pretty much every kilometre.
Do you recall that yesterday I signed off with aching feet and both of us feeling quite tired? Are you wondering why we then decided on a 10km walk for today’s activity? So am I.
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