Archive for May, 2010
Conference Dinner – Crown Palladium, Melbourne
(as you read this, I’m on my way to Sydney for my flight to Germany! I hope to update here or twitter while I’m away, but if not, or if I’m irregular, I will be back!)
I love conference dinners, especially when the venue is gorgeous, the people wonderful, and the food the best! Enter Crown Palladium to wrap up our conference.
Table setting, including our pre-dinner drinks!
The alternating menu
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Hotel Ibis – Little Bourke St, Melbourne
Now to share with you my little accommodation bargain – $65 per night, booked just at the right time – Hotel Ibis, Little Bourke St.
Comfy beds!
I understand the rack rate to be closer to $120 – I probably wouldn’t have paid that online having not seen it before, but it worked out well for the $65 (I never pay full price for my hotels!) but this little twin room suited us for our stay. And it was walking distance (past the strip clubs of King Street!) to the Crown conference venue/casino.
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Packing (aka German weather in Spring looks like Newcastle in June)
Okay. Here is my itinerary in yahoo weather widgets. Towards the end my packing dilemma will be revealed.
First stop, Vienna. Fly into Frankfurt Saturday with Malaysian Airlines, then hop straight onto an Air Berlin flight to Vienna. Were supposed to be meeting friends there, but they’ve pulled out… plans to date: apple strudel (for Rish), music, horses. For all locations, suggestions welcome. We probably won’t stay in Vienna the whole time we’re in Austria, likely to venture out a little :)
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Nashi Cafe, Melbourne
Since returning home, I’ve learned that Nashi is a small chain of cafes/sandwich bars in Melbourne, with the cute green colour of the Nashi fruit.
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Blanc Cafe – King St, Melbourne
Fruit Salad, $5.50
While I’m on breakfasts, I had to eat something for brekkies while in Melbourne this week – and fortunately we stumbled across Blanc Cafe on King Street on the way to the conference venue.
I like the collectible teaspoons!
Melbourne, you really do know how to make coffee, don’t you? I don’t think i can have Canberra coffee for awhile now! Spoilt!
(Their raisin toast was also awesome!)
Urban Food, New Acton
French toast with rosewater pears and marscapone
I’ve been meaning to try Urban Food for breakfast, so I dragged my mum and sister there in the cold of the Canberra morning to give it a go.
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My’s Vietnamese, Weston Creek
My favourite! Rice noodles with veges and tofu
I could eat this dish once a week and not get sick of it. In fact, I think it did that last winter! My’s Vietnamese at Cooleman Court is a short walk and even shorter drive from work (and now from my house) so I was very happy to drag the family there for dinner when they visited.
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382 Reflections
Reflections on Lake Burley Griffin
- Cream :: get on top
- Be with you :: always
- Pancakes :: cheesecake
- Believe :: skeptic
- 45 :: 54
- Eat :: drink
- Background :: music
- Pane :: pain
- Aim :: higher
- Collapse :: in a heap
I’m Just too Selfish right now
(prepare yourselves for oodles of pics of my nephew, Liam!)
Mum, my sister Jennie and her son Liam came for a visit last weekend, to watch the Swans go down to the evil Bulldogs and to see me :p
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Qantas CBR-MEL-CBR (and decent apples!)
Arrived to check in for my trip to Melbourne just on closing time (for luggage, anyway, ALWAYS take a large suitcase to Melbourne, just in case I need the room!), so on a flight where there may have been one spare seat, it’s no surprise I got the aisle rather than requested window. I’m just glad I wasn’t in the dreaded middle seat!
Snack on QF815
Interesting choice of biscuit, but I was pleased it wasn’t chocolate, rued yet again that Qantas only serves red apples, and ate it up.
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