This weekend started off quite badly! We had decided to visit a Mexican restaurant we had heard good things about for some fajitas and margaritas, only to find out after we had walked there that it was fully booked. We ended up in a Vietnamese restaurant called Saigon Saigon (we were feeling adventurous) which looked lovely but was a massive disappointment. My meal was okay, but Dave had a duck curry which was really fatty and tasteless. He ended up not eating anything and complaining about the meal too. So no margaritas, no fajitas, and a disgusting dinner! Pick and mix from the shop downstairs and a couple of episodes of Lost made up for it though.
Saturday we took a trip to Parramatta, which is a town about 40 minutes west of Sydney, for their Riverbeats festival and an evening at the comedy club. Riverbeats is an annual festival in Parramatta where the river is lit up with pyrotechnic displays, glowing inflatable spheres and a myriad of music and live performances. The town was buzzing. The comedy club was not so buzzing and nothing compared to Komedia in Brighton. The compere was okay; the first act died on stage; and the second act was a racist, fascist, bigoted drug addict/alcoholic. The only thing to do was to drink lots of wine to numb the pain of the Australian comedy club experience!
Sunday was a beautiful day (if very windy - sunburn weather!) so we decided to make the most of the weather by going for a walk around to Mrs Macquarie's chair, which is a carved out rock on a peninsula in Sydney harbour. We ended up at a lovely poolside/harbourside cafe where we had a bite to eat and enjoyed the views.
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