A weekend of exploring JoBurg on our own - Part One

Armed with Hilary's copy of street maps and my natural navigation ability (that's a joke that only my family will understand) we spent a fair bit of time driving around Jo'Burg this weekend on our own.


Friday night - still not venturing far out for dinner - again to Hyde Park this time to Santorini's Greek- not as good as West End Greek and definitely not as good as Melbourne Greek food but not bad.


Saturday - After beginning the morning catching up with footy scores on Sandy's laptop we headed out for breakfast at Fournos Bakery at Dunkeld - if you follow this link you will see photos of the bakery but on Saturday mornings it is packed to overflowing. Not bad brekky - don't know why here but the egg yolks are very pale yellow - does that mean the chooks have been underfed? Can't remember every noticing it in PNG!

The big moment of the morning was buying Sandy a new pair of shoes!! and they are red!! very cool sneakers - I think he still thinks they are daggy rather than cool but I try to reassure him that I know best:-)

After buying fruit and vegies and meat and groceries - three different shopping centres, three different shops, which DOES remind me of PNG, while at the same time trying to keep up to date with footy scores in the Lions/Bulldogs game on our phones we headed out to explore.

BUT a diversion -does anyone in Oz realise that the AFL and Telstra BigPond have got the internet video rights to live AFL matches completely sewn up even if you are not in Australia. Despite some searching of forums I cannot find anyone who seems to think this is unreasonable. Well I do!! Yet another reason not to support Telstra! And No I am NOT linking the AFL website to my blog.

ok enough of the rant.

We headed off to a bookshop that Hilary had recommended called the Boekehuis which was a real adventure - in parts of JoBurg we had never been before, through massive roadworks (apparently yet another thing that will be ready for the world cup) - me head down tracing our route on the map, sandy dealing with sticky accelerator pedal and manual gear changes - but we made it. Interesting store - I keep trying to buy interesting children's books but not much luck although I did buy one here that is in a series - I'll put the link up later.

Then to Parkhurst for lunch - here I am trying to fit in with the elite - the clientele reminds me of Toorak Road South Yarra - oh except they are all under 30 in Parkhurst! Once again food was good though!