At one end of Acland Street in St Kilda, every other shop is a bakery… so of course we had to sample a cake with our coffee…
Cakes at St Kilda
Monthly Archives: December 2019
Helen & joey’s rose
Of all the wines we tasted in the Yarra Valley we liked Helen & Joey‘s Rose best. Unusually it’s made from merlot grapes and they consider it something of a premium brand. We would have showed you a full bottle but I’m afraid we drank it…
It’s a scorcher!
Melbourne is set for its hottest ever December temperature … our phone app shows 43 degrees in Armadale (suburb of Melbourne)
The newspapers say that if the temperature reaches 44 degrees, as expected, it will break a 143 year old December record! (Fortunately it’s all change tomorrow…)
Just walked out to the cafe for a cappuccino. Exiting the air conditioned building we hit a wall of heat. It only takes a minute to walk there… but that was long enough!
It’s overcast at the moment and Val was reading that they can have lightening in these conditions and that’s often when fires start…