✈️ Cranberra Airport, ACT

CBR → MEL

☕️ Bean Origin, Bruce, ACT

This is next to Cafe MoMo, which wasn’t open when I arrived. Hate to say this, but the early bird catches the worm (or in this case, the customer).

Rating: 👍

🍽 Soul Origin, Tullamarine Airport, Vic.

Well, if you can’t get into the business lounge… 😉

Rating: 👍

✈️ Tullamarine Airport, Vic

MEL → CBR

✈️ Changi Airport, Singapore

SIN → MEL

Saw all the gardens while waiting to board

🍽 Hawker Chan, Singapore

Rating: 👍

🌲 Green Corridor, Old KTM Railway, Singapore

Total distance: 17 km

🍽 Etna Italian Restaurant, Singapore

Rating: 👍

🍸 Long Bar, Raffles Hotel, Singapore

Yes, I had the Singapore Sling. Nice drink. Little bitter but still sweet enough to not be overpowering.

Be prepared for a short wait, and expect a lot of peanut shells on the floor.

Rating: 👍

🍽 Long Beach UDMC, Singapore

Sea food restaurant. Quite good.

Rating: 👍

🍽 Komala Vilas, Little India, Singapore

You will need to queue, but very authentic Indian.

Rating: 👍

🍽 Love Seafood Restaurant, Batam, Indonesia

Rating: 👍

⛴️ Harbour Front, Singapore

Singapore ↔ Batam

☕️ Cafe Sol, Tullamarine Airport, Vic

What was once some bar with an aeronautic-based name (naturally) and a neon sign of a bird in flight is now this place. A little pricey, but the coffee’s decent and serve to the table, which is novel in an airport.

Rating: 👍

✈️ Tullamarine Airport, Vic

MEL → SIN

Fitting that this trip was to fall 10 years to the day from the first RA-V mission.

🌲 Loch Memorial Reserve, Loch, Vic.

Provides access to the rail trail via a suspension bridge.

☕️ The Borough, Korumburra, Vic

Place in Koonwarra was closed so went to my backup place. Pretty decent.

Rating: 👍

☕️ Sis N Me, Surry Hills, Vic.

Decent place for lunch. Food was… okay, but they were pretty fast, which was what I was looking for during my visit.

Rating: 👍

🍽 The Shamrock Hotel, Kyneton, Vic.

Rating: 👍

🍽 Hue’s Kitchen, South Melbourne, Vic.

Great Pho.

Rating: 👍

🚩 The Ridge Medical Centre, Eltham, Vic.

Routine matters.

🚩Auscart Racing, Port Melbourne, Vic.

🌲 Caulfield Park, Caulfield, Vic.

🍽 Old England Hotel, Heidelberg, Vic.

Always a classic. Italian restaurant at Ivanhoe was full so thought I’d come here tonight.

Rating: 👍

🖼️ Heide Museum of Modern Art, Heidelberg, Vic.

🍽 Pascoe Vale Hotel, Pascoe Vale, Vic.

Rating: 👍

✈️ Flughafen Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

ZRH → DXB → MEL

🍽 Al Parlamento, Venice, Italy

Good menu selection. Great tiramisu.

Rating: 👍

🍽 Trattoria dal Biassanot, Bologna, Italy

Rating: 👍

🍽 La Frasca Al Vicolo, Bologna, Italy

Decent meal. They’ve got a pretty good craft beer menu.

Rating: 👍

🍽 Poldo Panini, Parma, Italy

Rating: 👍

☕️ Tamandi, Milan, Italy

Good focaccia place.

Rating: 👍

🍽 Le Bistroquet, Aix-en-Provence, France

Rating: 👍

🍽 Apostrophe Cafe, Arles, France

Rating: 👍

🍽 Chez Rani, Nîmes, France

Rating: 👍

🍽 Chez Henri, Perpignan, France

Rating: 👍

🍽 Ocaña, Barcelona, Spain

Rating: 👍

🍽 La Fonda, Barcelona, Spain

Rating: 👍

🍽 Restaurante Katxarro, Elorrio, Spain

This was fine, although local opinions seem to be that they put too much oil in dishes. But still okay. Go during the week to get a cheap “menu of the day.”

Rating: 👍

🍽 Côte & Mer, Biarritz, France

Rating: 👍

🍽 Juantxo Taberna, Donostia, Spain

This came up in the Google Map results for “pintxos”, but it was more of a sandwich place. That said, the sandwichs were good and the prices reasonable.

Rating: 🫳

☕️ EsCafé, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain

Rating: 👍

🍽 La Cuchara de San Telmo, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain

Excellent pintxos.

Rating: 👍

☕️ Tahona Okindegia, Donostia, Spain

Good cafe for breakfast.

Rating: 👍

🍽 Iturrioz, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain

Decent place, but they forgot the sparkling water we ordered while still charging for it. But otherwise nice place for dinner.

Rating: 👍

🚄 Gair Montparnasse, Paris, France

Paris → Hendaye

🍽 Au Bourguignon du Marais, Paris, France

Absolutely lovely Beef Bourguignon, finished with great St. Marcellin cheese.

Rating: 👍

🍽 Royal Opéra, Paris, France

You’ll be paying the “tourist tax” here, given how close it is to the Louvre, but the prices aren’t too exorbitant, and the menu is quite complete.

Rating: 👍

☕️ Café La Perle, Paris, France

Rating: 👍

☕️ L’Horizon, Montparnasse, France

Great place for breakfast. €13.00 for a croissant, baguette, coffee, orange juice, and an omelette.

Rating: 👍

🍽 Le Paris Montparnasse, Paris, France

A good place for those staying in Montparnasse who’d like to try “traditional” French food.

Rating: 👍

✈️ Tullamarine Airport, Vic.

MEL → DBX → CHR

🍽 The Pinsent, Wangaratta, Vic.

Always a favourite.

Rating: 👍

☕️ Mawson Bakery Cafe, Eurora, Vic.

Cappuccino not bad, but apparently the long black is too large, too hot, and not great.

🚩 Golang Meetup at DigIO, Melbourne, Vic.

🍽️ The Bavarian, Belconnen, ACT

Enjoyed Easter lunch here with the family.

Rating: 👍

🏠 Macquarie, ACT

Easter weekend.

🍽️ Geppetto Trattoria, Jollymont, Vic.

You can tell how good an Italian restaurant is by how well they make their gnocchi. And this place does it well. Tiramisu was quite nice too.

Rating: 👍

🍽️ The Imperial Hotel, Melbourne, Vic.

Pro tip for anyone feeling like a parma: consider the half parma instead of the full one. They’re huge.

Rating: 👍

🍽️ Pascoe Vale Hotel, Pascoe Vale, Vic.

Rating: 👍

🚩 Ballarat Beer Festival at Wendouree Park, Wendouree, Vic.

☕️ Cafe Lekker, Ballarat, Vic.

Rating: 👍

🚄 Southern Cross ↔ Ballarat / Wendouree

🌲 Springthorp Grounds, Bundoora, Vic.

Bocce.

🚩 Twilight market at Ivanhoe library, Ivanhoe, Vic.

This is where I bought this print.