Barcelona

We are staying at the http://www.h10hotels.com/eng/barcelona-hotels/h10-catalunya-plaza.php in Barcelona. A fantastic location.

Harri is sick in bed which sucks ass, but I am pretty much wasting away to like 104kgs so I am about to go hunting for some food.

I will let you know how i go!

Akelarre Restaurant San Sebastian

We had dinner at one of the better restaurants in San Sebastian.

http://www.akelarre.net/web/english/base.htm

We each had a different degaustaion and it cost us about 350 Euro. I had paired wines and Harri had a couple of glasses.

The building is stunning, it wasn't 100% finished when we were there, but the restaurant was PRIMO.

More to come and photos too...

Dear David Yonan, Six-Word Memoirist extraordinaire

Congratulations! Your Six-Word Memoir, "would prefer gay kids over vegetarians" from SMITH Magazine is being published in the new book, It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure, on sale January 5th. (But available for pre-order now!) Thank you and welcome!

This book is as much yours as it is ours, and in the coming weeks, we hope to include you all in the process of hyping, buzzing, promoting, publicizing, proselytizing, and singing the six-word gospel to the high heavens. And, you know, invite you to parties.

Cafe Jolly

Norton St Leichhard.

The food is ok, the service is good when they aren't busy, when they are, forget about it, they must have a one waiter policy no matter how many people are in the restaurant.

I actually quite like a few dishes here, it is a cheap and cheerful place, but we have been put off with a few bad experiences with not enough staff.

I would recommend the following:
- Filletto Pepper
- Jolly Caesar Salad (with Tandoori style chicken)
- Agnello on crushed potatoes and spinach with Balsamic
- Seafood platter for under $25 - can't beat it
- Penne Pollo

Flights for El Bulli are booked!

Woo Hoo!!

Flights have officially been booked and paid for.

We got return flights from Sydney to Frankfurt via Singapore for $1590pp.

I am pretty stoked with this because the cheapest flights I could find were about $2700pp if I would have gone with just one air line like Qantas or Singapore Air.

We are flying out on the 8th December and returning on the 20th Jan!

The reason we decided on Frankfurt was because we are going to buy a car in Germany and drive around and sell it before we leave.

I have also been looking into hiring a proper sports car and driving it from one end of Germany to the other and back as many times as I can and as fast as I can in a 24 hour period... I just don't know if I will be able to convince my wife that $6000 for a day is good value... who knows, I convinced her to marry me, so I guess I have a chance...

Bird Cow Fish

I thought Bird, Cow, Fish was good, but the menu was very limited and there was only one "Bird" item (a spatchcock which was delicious).

Berowra Waters

Man, this place is incredible.

Whats not to like about it! $220 for 6 courses with paired wines is good value for such an experience.

I am not a massive desserts fan (I just prefer "savoury" dishes), so how impressed was I when I discovered that from the 21 item degustation menu I could order everything from the top bit. Which is exactly what I did!