Perth - C Restaurant

 So today is Saturday 2nd August and as was predicted it is raining … actually it is poring … BIG time 🌧️ 

From the comforts of our apartment at Pan Pacific on the 22nd floor we can’t see a thing except for a solid wall of white driving rain.

So what is there to do on a day like today?

Let’s do lunch! 

C Restaurant “IN THE SKY” is just up the road, on level 33 and it revolves. 

It has been getting great food reviews and with wonderful views over Perth so we can sit back … be wined and dined …

and watch the rain.

The sky’s cleared for us to get here so that was a great start.

Up there IN THE SKY is where we are heading.

The views are breathtaking way up here between the rain showers.

We can even see down onto the Pan Pacific.

Our room is on the corner 2 floors below the logo.

 Pays to book direct … nice little upgrade 😁 

I will to get back to you later with what we had for lunch.

Perth

 Beautiful day in Perth so we made good use of our time for some walks around where we are staying at the Pan Pacific over looking the city and the swan river because tomorrow they are expecting rain again.  

The bell tower is a stunning piece of architecture.

We are staying is just above the Swan river in east Perth and the boardwalks are amazing to wander on.

 

The government house from the mid 1850’s

The wildlife at the city's billabongs are so placid and ready for a close up picture 😂 

The old London Court built in 1937 by Claude de Bernales a wealthy gold financier and businessman of the time and today it still stands as it did then to show prosperity.

Arrived back to our hotel with complimentary bubblies handed out as guest returned from their day out 

pretty cool 🥂 

Perth - Octopus Crumpets & French Toast for brunch/lunch!

Yesterday, Friday was a stunning clear blue day here in Perth so we went for a drive north of the city around Scarborough, Triggs Beach to check out the area. 

Sandy used to frequent these parts way back last century when she first meet Rob.

For lunch I had an octopus crumpet!! … Yes I know, not two words that one would imagine ever going together. 

We found a little Italian place called Monelli at Burns Beach, that was a lot quieter than the other beach side cafes we had passed with loud kids and truck loads of dogs!!! 

We love kids … “baked or fried” 😂 

Yesterday we wanted our lunch location to be small 2 legs and 4 leg free! we wanted it to be more zen like. 🧘  

Probably not so zen of a day for the octopus!!

Poached octopus sitting on a on a house-made large pillow-ie crumpet with horseradish cream, shaved fennel and smoked paprika oil.

Food Heaven combo for sure.

Went super well with a WA chardonnay.

Sandy enjoyed her french toast with orange blossom cream, crispy rhubarb and pistachios while not looking at me or my eight legged plate!

Heading To Perth - Pierogi Dumplings

 Again and again we say that we are so lucky to be in Multicultural Australia and on our drive up to Perth today we pulled into a little waterside cafe and they had their 

Ukrainian home made Pierogi Dumplings.

The owners of the cafe are Ukrainian so as well as usual cafe meals they had some of their cultural dishes on the menu and of course we are going to try “the” something different. 

Pierogi are filled dumplings made by wrapping unleavened dough around a filling and cooked in boiling water then fried off to give a crust.

Today’s dumplings were filled with potato, cabbage and cheese and were super tasty.

Busselton - Point Marchant

Today’s drive took us to many a beach but this one stole our hearts. It is only 30mins south west of Busselton at Point Marchant and today being a truly blue day it was 

just spectacular,

 not a sole on the beautiful beach except for us 💚💜

We are on a south facing beach so the sand is very course.

So it is a good bye to Busselton, Rob and Rosanne and this beautiful part of the world and tomorrow we are headed 200km north back up to Perth for our last 3 nights in WA.

Sex Change

 On my way to the bathroom at the “Corn Popper” place I saw the female then male then the sex change and within an 

instance my mind was thinking what a 

progressive establishment it was !!!

But as I rounded the corner of the wall the rest of the signage appeared 

A few extra letter changes everything 😂 

Busselton Jetty

 I said last week that when the windy wet weather got better I would go for a walk on the Busselton Jetty.

On our last night in Busselton the sky's cleared and the winds had dropped and it was a truly beautiful sunset 

over the Indian Ocean.

So Rosanne and I headed off leaving Sandy & Rob at the pub for some one on one time. 

1/2 way out we stoped and stood and there was just no noise! 

Far enough from the town noises and the lapping waves to complete silence, it was amazing.