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Last night
Feb. 22nd, 2008 10:38 pmMy last night in Canberra for some time. I've been busy the past few days, squaring things away, checking items off my to-do list, packing.
My sister arrived on Wednesday, and it has been very pleasant indeed, catching up. We went on a bit of a sushi kick - the whole family enjoys sushi, I've discovered - and when we found the local takeaway does sushi boxes, well.
We'd sit around the table, chatting away, and now and again one of us would find it necessary to concentrate on their sinuses after taking a lick of wasabi. Mmmm, good tucker.
But now it's late evening and I'd really better get some sleep. Tomorrow morning we're flying off to Sydney, then onto Hong Kong. Got some serious shopping there. Then the kids go home, we join our ship nand the real fun begins - thirty days of cruising all the way to England. I'm planning on releasing a book every day for the next two months, and finding a way to write a blog entry about it. Plus photographs.
Tonight we had trout for dinner, and a nice semillon to go with it. Little Creatures Pale Ale for the beer drinkers among us. For once that didn't include my son, who had to stay soner to drive his girlfriend home.
After dinner, I suggested coffee at Artoven in Manuka for the senior members of the family. I love the ambience of Manuka on a mild evening. Full of life, people strolling around, sitting at sidewalk cafe tables, chatting, greeting each other. Just a lovely way to see Canberra go by.
We went into Paperchain bookshop afterwards. An independent and it's full of the most fascinating books. Forget the chains with their Grishams and Graftons all alike, independents have their own special magic.
After Hong Kong, there'll be no evenings like this one. We might pull into a port, but we'll be gone again at sundown. Portsmouth will be our first opportunity, and I'm not sure that southern England in late March will be too mellow.
Maybe I'll get an opportunity to write some more tomorrow. We'll see.
My sister arrived on Wednesday, and it has been very pleasant indeed, catching up. We went on a bit of a sushi kick - the whole family enjoys sushi, I've discovered - and when we found the local takeaway does sushi boxes, well.
We'd sit around the table, chatting away, and now and again one of us would find it necessary to concentrate on their sinuses after taking a lick of wasabi. Mmmm, good tucker.
But now it's late evening and I'd really better get some sleep. Tomorrow morning we're flying off to Sydney, then onto Hong Kong. Got some serious shopping there. Then the kids go home, we join our ship nand the real fun begins - thirty days of cruising all the way to England. I'm planning on releasing a book every day for the next two months, and finding a way to write a blog entry about it. Plus photographs.
Tonight we had trout for dinner, and a nice semillon to go with it. Little Creatures Pale Ale for the beer drinkers among us. For once that didn't include my son, who had to stay soner to drive his girlfriend home.
After dinner, I suggested coffee at Artoven in Manuka for the senior members of the family. I love the ambience of Manuka on a mild evening. Full of life, people strolling around, sitting at sidewalk cafe tables, chatting, greeting each other. Just a lovely way to see Canberra go by.
We went into Paperchain bookshop afterwards. An independent and it's full of the most fascinating books. Forget the chains with their Grishams and Graftons all alike, independents have their own special magic.
After Hong Kong, there'll be no evenings like this one. We might pull into a port, but we'll be gone again at sundown. Portsmouth will be our first opportunity, and I'm not sure that southern England in late March will be too mellow.
Maybe I'll get an opportunity to write some more tomorrow. We'll see.
