Finally decided to switch to blogspot instead after being thwarted from blogging a couple of times by friendster.
IT support from friendster is zilch if you're not a paying member.
An email i sent to the support staff asking for assistance was "politely" rejected,
saying no form of IT support would be given unless i could "show them the money"
Bleah....
So anyho, here i am... with my new site up and running... Now to get over my writer's block...


I managed to chalk up 120km over this weekend travelling around sydney.
On saturday night, i baked a loaf of banana bread and headed of to Mart's place to surprise him. He was hard at work on some website he's been contracted to do so I thought i'd do something nice for him.
So immediately after i took the bread out of the oven, i drove to his place (11km thereabouts). The banana bread was still warm when i got there.
Unfortunately, he was not surprised to see me. I attribute this to a couple of reasons. I'm always full of surprises such that i'm no longer surprising. He always has "surprise" visits from his friends.
Anyway... so the next morning, woke up and hauled ass to Thelma and Louise which is this cafe by the water at Neutral Bay. Suli introduced this cafe to me when Victor and Violet were in town for a holiday.
Neutral Bay is a rather quiet suburb, rather classy... should be expensive to buy property there. So on a Sunday morning, all the upper-class preppy north shore folks dressed in their sunday best come to this cafe to have their breckies.
Darn we should have taken pics but unfortunately we didn't have our cameras with us. Bookings must be made in advance and service is mediocre simply because there's too much for the few waiters to contend with. Not that the cafe is choked with people. Au contraire, the tables are all nicely filled and waiting people are politely invited to wait at the picnic tables located outside the cafe facing the water.
They serve coffees in bowls here and the menu has your standard big breakfasts with eggs, bacon, sausages, tomatoes, mushies and bread, the eggs benedict with ham/salmon, or eggs with toast, yogurt and muesli etc...
Coffee and food was pas mal (not bad - french), the whole thing was more for the ambience i suppose.

So anyway, after breckie, we headed out to this park at mosman that was at the water's edge too. That's the thing about sydney. weekend outdoorsy activities always revolve around water water water. There we lay in the grass and vegged out for a bit.

It was then that the idea of driving up to Akuna bay struck me. On such a beautiful day as this, nothing better than enjoying a nice drive through to Akuna bay i reckon. So we drove all the way up from Chatswood (his place), to Dee Why (beach), to church point, into Kuringai Chase National Park and into Akuna bay where we had ice coffee and vegged out somemore. See pics above for drive up....

After Akuna Bay, dropped mart off home and headed out shortly to have dinner with Amanda at Homebush and then headed home.

--> total distance travelled? 120km