Life This Week 23/4/2018: School Holiday Memories.


These have been my first school holidays as a parent and they’ve been pretty special even though we spent them right here at home. I was lucky enough to be there for that last day of school pick up and then to be home for most of the break.

These weeks of bonus summer weather helped as well.

Hyde Park was its usual glorious self.

We tried to be cultured by visiting the art gallery but the park outside held more appeal.

At least we managed to find a couple of pieces of art to ponder out there in the sun.

Of course there was good food and the break from routine and decadently unstructured days stretched out ahead of us.

We had breakfast at the organic market at Kings Cross.

The French Patisserie stall does an excellent almond croissant and croque monsieur.  It’s one of the first stalls you’ll see as you come up Darlinghurst Road from the station,

Saturday mornings are a special time at The Cross.  It’s the morning after the night before.  The night and its neon signs seem to have hidden their secrets and sights in time for the sun to rise over quiet tree lined streets filled with families and fresh faced locals to go about their Saturday morning business.  It’s just the lines of bikes and the flashy store fronts that hint at what life might be like here after dark.

Things got a little wet and grey briefly during the break which was the perfect reason for a a trip to the cinema with a hot chocolate afterwards.
Then the sun returned bringing with it our sense of adventure.

We travelled so frequently on the train that by Thursday in week one of the break, we qualified for half price travel for the rest of the week.

Putting my new Ikea pouch to good use.  It’s perfect to keep things accessible in a backpack.

We travelled to places I’ve been meaning to explore but never quite got around to visiting until now.

New South Wales really is a stunning part of the world.  There’s so much to explore for the price of a train ride. 

It’s comforting to know that by using so much public transport these holidays, we did our bit for the planet whose beauty we were out exploring.

I got myself a blue tooth selfie stick and still have to figure out how to take relaxed looking selfies with it.

I’m going to miss the weekday brunches and adventures we’ve been having.

It’ll be back to routine and expert level time management soon.  It’s going to take a bit of getting used to but I’m sure we’ll get there soon enough.  Before you know it, though, it’ll be time to do this school holiday thing all over again.


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