Barnadi now gets his day off work on a Wednesday the same as me, so yesterday we took the opportunity to go for a drive down the Mornington peninsula to visit Barnadi's friend Chris. We packed some homemade iced lemon traybake and a bottle of wine and we were ready to go. Two and a half hours later and we arrived in Fingal a small village near Sorrento. After being given a tour of Chris's new house with 5 acres of land and making friends with her dog Neo, we headed to Sorrento for lunch. We had lunch at the Sorrento hotel, I was driving so Barnadi and Chris could enjoy a glass of wine, or two or three....It was probably not the best idea then that Chris suggested we played a game she had learnt about during a recent holiday in Switzerland involving a big block of wood, 3 nails and an axe. Luckily no-one got hurt!
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| Chris and Barnadi playing the Swiss nail game. |
We then had the long arduous drive back up the Nepean highway and through the city during rush hour traffic. We didn't have time to stop anywhere along the way, as we had invited some friends over for dinner. Luckily the friends were late, as we got lost trying to find a route with less traffic only to get stuck in an even worse jam. The friends coming for dinner, Sam and his girlfriend Athina, are our first visitors from the UK. I met Sam when I was still at University when he used to come over for dinner all the time, and we would enjoy a bottle or two of wine and some long debate over various scientific theories that would bore most other people at the table. After graduating he moved up to Scotland where he met Athina, and we hardly saw each other after that. They have now just arrived in Melbourne after a month travelling through Indonesia, and they are planning to stay here for at least 3 months if not longer. The dinner was a success thanks to Barnadi's amazing (as usual) cooking efforts and conversations flowed as if the last 7 years of absence had never happened.
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| Neo |
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