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\"\"An earlyish start this morning to tackle a restaurant I\u2019ve been looking forward to for a while.\u00a0 We have most of Bill Granger\u2019s books, and find his recipes simple and stunningly nice.\u00a0 We arrived just after 9:30am to his original Bills restaurant, and were pleasantly surprised to get a seat straight away.\u00a0 I quickly decided I should have eggs, as it was what built his reputation in the first place.\u00a0 Emma joined me in having Scrambled Eggs with Sourbread.\u00a0 I also had mushrooms on the side, while Em had tomato and bacon.\u00a0 Simon ordered banana hotcakes (which looked brilliant).\u00a0 The eggs didn\u2019t disappoint \u2013 really silky and unlike any other scrambled eggs I\u2019ve had before.\u00a0 They rocked.
\nFrom Bills, the three of us walked back towards town, through Hyde Park and the Botanic Gardens towards the mainstay of Sydney tourism \u2013 Circular Quay.\u00a0 We completed the mandatory viewing of the Opera House and the across the river look of the Harbour Bridge, before wandering around the Quay and underneath the Bridge itself.\u00a0 It really is an enormous structure, and you can understand why it is marvelled at.\u00a0 The pure height it sits off the water level, and the span it completes without supporting beams running through the water are amazing.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t amazing enough for us to climb to the top, however!
\n\"\"Time for some shopping.\u00a0 With promises of an enormous Westfield shopping centre in Bondi, we rushed to the train station, bought our ticket, rushed down the 155 flights of stairs (or so it seemed) and\u2026 trains to Bondi cancelled for the weekend due to track work.\u00a0 Damn!\u00a0 Finding the corresponding bus took an age, and by the time we got to Bondi Junction, we were pretty exhausted.\u00a0 The place is huge though.\u00a0 Taking up two entire blocks, there are also six levels on each block.\u00a0 It was big.\u00a0 We took the time to do some much-needed clothes shopping to get us through the rest of the year at work, I bought Emma\u2019s birthday presents, and we caught the bus all the way home, again being quite frustrated at the lack of signage provided as to where to catch the \u201ctrain-bus\u201d.
\n\"\"Tomorrow we\u2019re planning on hiring a car and tackling some Blue Mountains action, under Simon\u2019s guidance.\u00a0 To be honest, we\u2019re quite glad, as we\u2019re slightly let down by the \u201ctouristy\u201d things here, as opposed to Melbourne\u2019s more natural style of things.\u00a0 Mind you, I can\u2019t complain about the Sydney food\u2026 I\u2019ve had some of the best meals ever in just 24 hours!\u00a0 With hopefully more good food to come tonight\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An earlyish start this morning to tackle a restaurant I\u2019ve been looking forward to for a while.\u00a0 We have most of Bill Granger\u2019s books, and find his recipes simple and stunningly nice.\u00a0 We arrived just after 9:30am to his original Bills restaurant, and were pleasantly surprised to get a seat straight away.\u00a0 I quickly decided […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-kids","tag-sydney","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8sUAc-5q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":331,"url":"https:\/\/hinchy.org\/travels\/sydney-on-friday\/","url_meta":{"origin":336,"position":0},"title":"Sydney on Friday","author":"trevor","date":"April 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Our plane trip from Melbourne to Sydney went smoothly\u2026 if you blinked, you would have missed it \u2013 about 10 minutes after finishing the ascent, the captain announced we were beginning our descent!\u00a0 An hour trip overall. 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