Marie a Melbourne :)): Ma semaine (11/01/2010-17/01/2010)

Lundi:
Journee de canicule... Nous avons atteint les 43 degres et il faisait toujours 41 a 21h45! J'aurais bien passe la journee a la plage!
Monday:
The hottest day of the summer until now: we reached 43 degrees during the day and it was still 41 degrees at 9:45pm... I wish I could have spent the day on the beach!

Mardi:
Petite sortie a St Kilda, essai d'un resto sur le bord de la plage: Stokehouse Downstairs. Agreablement surprise :)
Tuesday:
Night out in St Kilda: I tries the Stokehouse Downstairs (quite nicely surprised by the quality of the food) and went to the usual Prince Of Wales!

Mercredi:
Diner chez Dinesh! Au menu, attention, Dinesh s'est surpasse, soupe de poulet et champis faite maison, enormes et delicieux steaks et pour finir, j'ai achete une galette des rois.
OUIIIIIIIIIIIII pendant tout le mois de janvier ils font des galettes des rois a Cacao a cote de la maison. Et elle etait delicieuse, vraiment authentique avec une feve et une couronne en papier!!!
Soiree super sympa :)
Wedensday:
Dinner at Dinesh's place. He cooked for me and I was quite amazed; chicken and mushroom soup followed by an enourmous and delicious steak.
I got a galette des rois (see this post for the explaination: http://marieamelbourne.blogspot.com/2009/09/ma-semaine-14-20092009.html).
If you want to try one, go to Cacao in St Kilda, it was really really good and authentic. It even came with a feve and a paper crown! They only make it in January to follow the French tradition though and you should call them the day before to order it.

Vendredi:
Je suis passee a l'If bar pour dire au revoir a James (le barman d'If bar) qui demenage la semaine prochaine a Londres.
Puis retour a la maison ou j'ai deguste le Mont d'Or ramene de France apres l'avoir passe au four.... Un delice :) Tout fini!
Friday:
I quickly went to the If bar to say goodbye to James (the If bartender) as he's moving to London quite soon.
I then got home and put the Mont D'Or I brought back from France in the oven... It is a delicious unpasteurised cheese. I ate is all O:) I can't describe how good it is.... So so love it :)
Here is good definition from wikipedia: it is a soft, rich, seasonal cheese contained in a grayish-yellow blanched rind. Made from cow's-milk in Switzerland or France, usually in villages of the Jura region (an origin that has been officially controlled since 1981), it typically contains 45 to 50 percent milk fat (in dry matter). It is marketed in round boxes of various diameters made of spruce. This cheese is made between August 15 and March 15, and is sold throughout France between September 10 and May 10.

Out of the fridge

After 15 to 20 minutes in the oven

Samedi:
Depart a 7h pour Gunnamatta Beach sur la Mornington Peninsula.
Saturday:
We left St Kilda at around 7am to go to Gunnamatta Beach on the Monrnington Peninsula.

Bon crepage the 9h30 a 15h :)
Nice time on the beach to sun bath until around 3pm.

Le temps a tourne et nous avons decider d'aller dans le parc national a Cape Schanck Lighthouse. Nous ne sommes ni alles pres ou dans le phare parce que l'entree coutait presque 10 euros et nous avons trouve que c'etait du vol!
Quelques photos d'une marche proche du phare (le Cape Schanck BoardWalk):
The weather changed and even my optimism didn't do anything for it!
We decided to go and check out the Cape Schanck Lighthouse. We didn't get in it or even really close to it as the National Park charges at least AUD15 for it...
But we did the Cape Schanck BoardWalk:

Ca nous a plu donc on a fait une autre marche d'environ 2h qui nous a amenes a la Bushrangers Bay:
We like walking so we went for another walk that took us to the Bushrangers Bay:

Echidna

Nous avons ensuite conduit Kevin au campsite de Rye.
Nous avons d'ailleurs passe une super soiree et trouve un excellent resto (avec des supers desserts en prime!!!!)
We then drove Kev to the Rye campsite.
That's quite a nice town with heaps of food options. We had an amazing dinner actually (with awesome deserts....)

Dimanche:
Sunday:
Petit dejeune a Rye et ballade sur la jete.
Brekky in Rye and walk on the Pier. This town is really pretty.