This is the delicious breakfast I enjoyed Saturday morning when I came home from training. I will admit to having a bit of an addiction to haloumi cheese at the moment :-) .
This is a super easy breakfast to make and I think its better than any breakfast I have ever gotten out at a cafe!
I simply put some sliced haloumi into a non stick frying pan with some sliced tomato and cook until the haloumi is deliciously golden on both sides. When that is done, I move it to the side of the pan and pop in some chopped red onion, once the onion has softened I add some baby spinach leaves and a splash of balsamic vinegar and cook briefly until the spinach has wilted a little. Then serve with some wholemeal toast!
Our last day in Melbourne was a bit of a rush, since we were being picked up to go to the airport at 11am!
So we started the day with a delicious breakfast at Edelweiss Cafe
Janet had bacon and eggs, with lovely thick toast
and I had the Vegetarian Breakfast - which had mushrooms, hash brown, baked beans, tomato and toast!
Then we went for a walk around town - We stopped to take some photos of all of the grafitti in Union Lane -
And then we headed back to the hotel to wait for the shuttle bus. and headed for the airport. We had to wait in a long line to check in, and then we had to wait for a long time at the gate - we used up some time by removing some of the 27 layers of clothes we had been wearing so that our carry on luggage was correct weight :-) Since we knew there would be no food to buy on the plane (except pringles) we grabbed some lunch from the airport.
this vegie pizza was the only vegetarian thing I could find. Even the sandwiches all contained meat.
breakfast was a couple of croissants from "Pie Face" which we had purchased the night before. I tried to heat them up by snuggling them close to the boiling kettle in our hotel room. fail. Still, yummy enough croissants! We were being picked up by Wild Life Tours Australia for a one day tour of the Great Ocean Road!
first stop was the famous Bells Beach
I saw my first ever "wild" Koala. In that we saw Koalas that were in trees, not in zoos!
We had lunch (included in the tour) at Apollo Bay. Hanet had the Roast Chicken, Chips and I ate her salad :-)
I had a Vegie Burger.
We had about half an hour after lunch to have a wander around. We found ourselves at this ice cream shop :-)
It was delicious icecream! Janet had honeycomb, I had Dulce de Leche Gelato. mmmmmmmmm
We ate our ice cream whilst walking out to see the view of Apollo Bay.Then it was back onto our little bus.
next stop was Maits Rest Rainforest Walk
Then on to the twelve apostles.....
......Loch Ard Gorge
........London Bridge. All amazing sights to see (and a million more of my photos can be found here!!
on the way back to the city, we stopped at the Noodle Canteen at Colac for dinner
lemongrass & chilli vegie noodles
We started our day with a bit of breakfast from McDonalds.
mmmmm pancakes!
Janet had a bacon & egg roll
Then we caught a tram to the Melbourne Zoo. We were a bit early, so we had to wander around aimessly for a while waiting for it to open! The zoo was the place I really wanted to go to while we were in Melbourne. And I took about a million photos, so will share just a few here...
Meer Cat
Gorilla! - We stood and wached the gorillas for ages - they were enjoying a feed of spinach!
We also got to see the baby elephant!!
And of course, my favourite - Giraffes! Janet told me that they didn't have giraffes at this zoo, so I was very excited to see that they actually did!!
Lion
Brown Bear
After the zoo, we hopped back on the tram, and jumped off at the Queen Victoria Markets for a quick look around.
we managed to squeeze in time for some lunch
yes, we ate churros for lunch. We shared a bag of 7. for $6. delicious! Although I did get rather covered in icing sugar!
We then headed for Federation Square, because we had tickets for a very important event.
This is the whole reason we were in Melbourne!!
The Abba World exhibition was really good! They had heaps of the actual costumes, instuments and other ABBA memorabillia, as well as interactive sections where you got to sing with ABBA, dance in a video clip etc etc. We had a great time!
Of course, all that ABBA-ing makes you hungry, so we went over the road to "Lord of the Fries" for some dinner!!
how exciting! a vegetarian burger place!!! I want one in Brisbane!! please!!!
JAnet had the French-Canadian Fries, or Poutine, which was fries with cheese and gravy
I went for an original burger, which was fantastic! loved it!! the burger patty was delicious, the sauces, the pickle, everything was just as a burger should be!
And after all that healthy eating (just as well we also did A LOT of walking) it was back to our hotel for some sleep!
