Tasmania Day 1

I am back from my trip to Tasmania. Such wonderful five days I had there, with lots of good food (oh the oysters and cheese), wine, pretty little cafes, stunning nature and time...time to be outside, finish a book and just be.

Here are some images from the first day which we started at the wonderful Pigeon Hole cafe, I wanted to take a photo of every corner there, they are baking their own bread and you can see on one of the images how they store the wood fired bread loafs in a bag next to the counter a sack of flour underneath it. I had one of the best sourdough bread with honey there! (I managed to get a jar of this wonderful honey later that day)

After that we drove to the infamous Mona museum which was great, some bids reminded me to the Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen. It was very cloudy that day but the light was just wonderful. And after we left the museum it had cleared up and we tried our luck and drove up to Mountain Wellington to have a look over Hobart. See the last picture - the view was just breathtakingly beautiful.

Ill have some more photos to share with you...

>> The new apartmento is out and I hope I can get my hands on this issue. It is one of my favorite issues.

>> I also got my copy of 3191 Quarterly and let me tell you how stunning it is. It is my favorite Quarterly so far - so well done

Sunday

It is mid November already. I really don't know were all the time goes to. Well, it was a quiet weekend with lots of cooking, listening to music, sewing and lying in the sun reading...

There is a lot to do the next couple of weeks amongst others I will move apartment but more about this soon. But step by step - this week I will go to Tasmania and I am so looking forward to this trip - breathing the fresh air and seeing the beauty of this island, going for long walks, eating and drinking good food and wine, going to the infamous museum 'Mona' and just having time for things I don't even know that I will explore or see them....

If you have a last minute Maria-must-go-and-see, let me know :^)

>> Here are two beautiful blogs written by Catherine: About her life Tasmania and the great food in Tassie

>< A nice song for you guys

>> And I like this idea to create a fond of your handwriting

food

Summer is here. It was 30C today and I celebrated a friends birthday with a nice picnic in a park. Summer also means lots of great fresh fruits and veggies...

#1 Maria's breakfast (this time with fresh watermelon)

#2 Quinoa salad with toasted sourdough, goats cheese and lemon

#3 A bag full of veggie goodies - ready to make a great minestrone

#4 Bananas have been very expensive for the last couple of months. After a cyclone destroyed big parts of the banana harvest. Now they are back and we enjoy them a lot

#5 Cheating on my breakfast (#1) and having the best soaked muesli w/ yoghurt & fresh fruits and rhubarb compote

>< I love this video, it gives me goosebumps every single time I watch it.

>>< This song is beautiful, don't you think

Maria

Something new in the neighbourhood

A couple of weeks ago the infamous Bourke Street Bakery opened up a cafe in our neighborhood. When we past their new cafe on the opening day it turned out that they gave out everything for free - we got one of their really tasty caraway breads and min tarts. The bread was delicious with the minestrone we had made that night.

How has your week been so far?

There have been so many music announcements lately and I am getting really excited about the great bands which will come to the Southern hemisphere this Summer, Beirut, Bon Iver, The Whitest Boy Alive and Ryan Adams are my favorites so far...

<> Have a look at Trixi's wonderful blog

>> I would love to go to Lisboa and Christine's photos show why

Have a lovely weekend everyone

Maria

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Out for a walk, passing flowers, a cupboard out of the street, nice cafes with maps on their walls, sitting down in the sun with a coffee eventually. A good day!

>> I got Feist's new album the other day. This video is simply great

>< I adore Hilary's work, her scarves are so perfect

>< a winner

It's been a hectic week and I hardly found time for myself and things I like to do - well, sometimes I wish to have a week full of Saturdays like I had it here ...

I am sorry it took me so long but I just drew the winner of my little give away and the lucky winner is Kerry. Yay! Kerry you will soon send some mail over the seas to London

Thank you so much again for your wonderful comments.

Maria

Two sisters

I think some of you might know that I am a big fan of the frankie magazine.

This magazine is just so beautifully made, has fun articles and most of all it sometimes seems to me like a wonderful photo album with all the wonderful photos in it.

It makes me so happy when I come home from a long day and open the mail box and find snail mail from a friend, something I ordered or frankie in it . When I got the latest issue last week it really made my day. I was sitting down instantly and flicked through the magazine and my eyes caught this beautiful article about two sisters sharing their lives and everything else together. The images are taken by Nadia Sablin and I think she captured so many wonderful moments of their way of living together. How beautiful is the picture them sitting over a crossword puzzle...

I also wanted to thank you all for your wishes on my last post. I can't tell you how much they made me smile. You still have a couple of days to enter the give-away.

>> The luckiest girl of the week must have been Marion, she witnessed a secret concert of Feist in Paris. Her pictures show many wonderful moments of this evening.