Lovely Darwin
Darwin has been wonderful in so many ways, but we will probably remember it primarily through our stomachs. We’ve eaten some fantastic food while we’ve been here – it is quite tempting to just stay here forever and eat ourselves into oblivion.
We ended up at various markets quite a few times, with all sorts of wonderful Asian food – freshly made, beautifully sour, sweet and chilli paw paw salad, fresh spring rolls, Cambodian rice pancakes, satay sticks of tender seafood, lemongrass tofu, all sorts of noodles and laksas and vegetable omelettes, and sweet sticky rice with banana fritters….. And the Moorish café with its fantastic tapas, especially the duck sausage with fruit chutney and the jewfish in coconut and lime… And the High Tea in the tropical gardens of the Burnett house, an original 30s tropical style house…
And the real coffees in the mornings… oh it has been SO good. It is going to be a bit harsh to be left to our own devices again. Breakfast is OK and dinner we usually have something good and interesting, but lunch is getting a bit boring – I don’t think I’ll want to look at another salad sandwich (with turkey or tuna) again after this trip!
We have loved Darwin – the laid-backness, the lush tropical gardens, the intensely pale aqua colour of the water, the whole tropical vibe. But we do realise that we are here when the weather is most perfect – 28 degree days, cooler nights. Possibly in the middle of the wet season we might not find it quite as idyllic! But right now we’d almost be happy just to stay and find out.
From Mindil Beach (where the famous sunset/night markets are) the sun sets over the water, and you’d think no-one had ever seen an ocean sunset from the number of people down there – check it out!?!?!
And then this impressive looking ship obligingly sailed in front of the sunset for all the snappers on the beach!
We ended up at various markets quite a few times, with all sorts of wonderful Asian food – freshly made, beautifully sour, sweet and chilli paw paw salad, fresh spring rolls, Cambodian rice pancakes, satay sticks of tender seafood, lemongrass tofu, all sorts of noodles and laksas and vegetable omelettes, and sweet sticky rice with banana fritters….. And the Moorish café with its fantastic tapas, especially the duck sausage with fruit chutney and the jewfish in coconut and lime… And the High Tea in the tropical gardens of the Burnett house, an original 30s tropical style house…
And the real coffees in the mornings… oh it has been SO good. It is going to be a bit harsh to be left to our own devices again. Breakfast is OK and dinner we usually have something good and interesting, but lunch is getting a bit boring – I don’t think I’ll want to look at another salad sandwich (with turkey or tuna) again after this trip!
We have loved Darwin – the laid-backness, the lush tropical gardens, the intensely pale aqua colour of the water, the whole tropical vibe. But we do realise that we are here when the weather is most perfect – 28 degree days, cooler nights. Possibly in the middle of the wet season we might not find it quite as idyllic! But right now we’d almost be happy just to stay and find out.
From Mindil Beach (where the famous sunset/night markets are) the sun sets over the water, and you’d think no-one had ever seen an ocean sunset from the number of people down there – check it out!?!?!
And then this impressive looking ship obligingly sailed in front of the sunset for all the snappers on the beach!
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