After the provided breakfast, we retired to our room for a few lazy hours, the travelling finally catching up with us. The weather outside was finally clearing and we decided to head to the Darlinghurst branch of Bill’s for a (second) breakfast. My map reading skills were a little off that day, and sent us the completely wrong direction – oops, an extra kilometre added to the walk…
The Darlinghurst Bill’s is a bright and airy restaurant and we had a particularly pleasant and friendly waitress. Laura went for the excellent corn fritters with avocado salsa and bacon – I took the scrambled eggs, avocado and salmon, which was nice, but not the best I have had. Laura then had a tonne of peanut brittle with a coffee while I had a slice of a freshly baked sponge with beautiful passion fruit icing – amazing!
When we left the waitress sorted us out with a little extra peanut brittle for the road (yikes, we had already eaten way too much) and we headed to the Manly ferry. For just a few quid, this runs you from Darling Harbour, past the Opera House and up through the Sydney harbour to the commuter town of Manly. We felt so tired that we almost dozed off from the gentle rocking and on arriving at Manly we hopped right back on the boat for the return journey.
The crossing was fairly choppy – a few folk soaked as the waved crashed onto the side of the boat! We narrowly avoided them and decided to head inside the ferry for the rest of the trip.
We then headed back to the hotel for a long nap before deciding on an evening at the cinema – Laura thought I was joking when I said Sweeney Todd was a ‘horror musical’, so was a bit disappointed when the singing started. Even so, it was an ok film and something different. We had intended to go to a club afterwards, but just felt so tired that it was straight back to the hotel for yet more napping. A much needed lazy day.
