Berrima – Southern Highlands

Last Saturday despite the cloudy forecast we had woken up to lovely crisp blue sky morning. We packed our bags and drove off to the historic town Berrima located in the picturesque valley on a bend of the Wingecarribee River.

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The drive along the M5 was mostly smooth and amazing how much faster you can go when the traffic just flows. We coasted along and every now and then passed through some little hills and valley. It wasn’t a total cloud free blue sky by this stage but considering a few hundred kilometres up the coast we were experiencing a mild cyclone a cloudy sky was nothing to whinge about. We reached beautiful historic Berrima on dot at 12 for a nice scrumptious meal. Starving that we were by this stage!

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We must have a thing for the Café next to the Studiooat Gallery. If memory serves me right its called the Berrima Bakehouse Café and yes how shabby is that not to remember the name of a Café where we’ve been twice already!! Tsk tsk! :) Old age! Well am guessing its called ‘Berrima Bakehouse’. The serves are generous and the service friendly and always hits the stop.

Berrima Burger

We’ve somehow always drifted down to this spot for lunch or breakfast and it was no different this time. I had the Berrima burgers with home-made tomato relish and chips and D had the soup of the day which was pumpkin with lovely toasted bread. It really was nice and dare I again say the burger was very yummy. The pattie was so well cooked. Not taken out of the freezer and cooked in a hurry and the beef obviously must have been of superior quality. Until now my belief was the best burger in Australia came from a street in New Brunswick in Brisbane but not anymore! sorry Brisbane! :)

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Clouds

Cloud formations
Canon EOS 40D, 1/500sec, f/5, 50mm, ISO 100, Bias: -2/3 EV

Noticed these amazing cloud formation when i got home yesterday. The blurred level is higher up in the stratosphere. The brighter orange ones were much lower and are in focus. They were literally speeding across the expanse like they were late for dinner! :)

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Sing the Truth – A Tribute to Nina Simone

Sing the Truth   A Tribute to Nina SimoneThe lovely D had got us tickets to see “Sing the Truth – A Tribute to Nina Simone” at the Sydney Opera House last night. This talent-packed, feel-good tribute to jazz and soul icon Nina Simone featured performances from vocalists Patti Austin, Dianne Reeves, Lizz Wright and Nina’s daughter, Simone. We were seating in the second row. Real up close and personal. The best way to enjoy a show of course. Except its not always easy to get such good seats. Well done D.

The performance was outstanding and as we were chatting on our way out of the Opera House if they tour again we must must must see them again! Amazing powerful voices that carry you deep down through their emotional journey. Words don’t do justice describing the charisma of their voice and being. They’ve done made Nina proud. Oh what a tribute to Nina Simone.