Daylesford: A walk in the town

We started our day with a hearty breakfast at Bocconcini, I'm the more unhealthy one... because my pick was sweet corn & haloumi fritters.

Little P's healthier breakfast of salmon and poached eggs on sourdough toast.

Despite Daylesford is a small town, there's some interesting bits around the town. We saw this...

... and decided to have a look :)

 

 

It's a bit like treasure hunt :P

 

It's a fairly interesting shop, selling trinkets and stuffs, but we left empty-handed.



Thereafter we jump on the Daylesford Heritage Trains which run every Sunday. We bought the return trip ticket to Musk, $10 for adult.

 

Train rides are always fun and this one comes with cardboard ticket and the conductor still comes around and punches them. ^ ^

 

 

There really isn't much in Musk, but it's ok. It's the train ride that matters ;)



 

We walkabout the Daylesford Sunday Market which was right next to the train station but saved our stomaches for lunch at another location. :)

 

 

Side note: Got to stop procrastinating and back to studying...





Hepburn Springs and Daylesford

Google map showed that it is just a mere 5 minutes drive between the two, in fact, it is just a road connecting the two towns. Hepburn Springs is famous as Australia's largest concentration of mineral springs - which translate to enjoying hot springs in Victoria! :) (Read: onsen is awesome!)

We made reservation at Hepburn Bathhouse & Spa, it is much less crowded, therefore cleaner than the one in Mornington Peninsula though it is only indoor.

A walk at Hanging Rock, followed by relaxing in a hot spring, what better than to finish the day with a good dinner. We did not make any reservation for dinner but saw a Rubens restaurant on the way to our accommodation. Unfortunately, it was fully booked, so we just walked to the one next door - which turned out to be Lucini's Historic Pasta Cafe & Bar.

Lucini's Historic Pasta Cafe & Bar is an eatery at The Old Macaroni Factory. The Old Macaroni Factory is Australia's oldest Italian building established in 1859 and they run guided tours about her family's life and of this property. Photography of the property is not allowed but we were given permission to shoot our meals.

The property itself is full of character and interesting bits but the entree is not to our flavour, the main is ok and the best has to go to the desserts. However we were so well fed that we almost rolled out of the restaurant.

Sausage - but a little too flour-y taste

There was surprise chocolate inside the poached fruit! ^^

Side note: Weekends just fly by so fast....

Snapshot of last two months...

Ok.. maybe three, since all this crazy weeks started at Christmas period. Weekdays are work day in day out. Weekends are spent organising other all other things.

I am not running out of things to blog, in fact it is piling up but here's little snapshot of it.

Awesome glaciers at Mount Cook

After that I moved (again!) - still in Melbourne but different apartment and suburb. So there was a lot of packing, cleaning old place, cleaning new place, moving day, unpacking, dealing with real estate agents... as of now am still following up on my rental deposit, 2 months after I moved = ="

Then it was this... In fact, I moved, left 90% of the boxes unpacked and went home...

Lo Sang in Singapore, also in Malaysia

and then, more food... for Lunar/Chinese New Year

Then back to Melbourne, heaps of unpacking... and then this...

It was wow!

Anyways, there's this post because I am procrastinating... am suppose to study for an exam due next month. Apparently I think I have not done enough and now felt like I was voodoo-ed into signing up for an external exams. A lot of studying and memorising needed to save the $300 exams fee. It will be reimbursed if I pass. My colleagues are way more positive than me, because they said "It will be reimbursed when I pass"


Side note: Alright.. back to studying...