{"id":772,"date":"2004-08-03T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-03T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/wordpress\/?p=772"},"modified":"2012-12-19T18:07:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T07:07:06","slug":"772","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"A DAY TRIP TO BONDI:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This last Sunday Adam and i took a long overdue trip up to Bondi to visit two dear friend&#8217;s of our&#8217;s Barbara and Mariana .. oh, and Conchita (sp?) (aka Dante) the cat, i forgot how wild and wooly the traffic can be on a Sunday around east Sydney and found the last ten kilometers took almost as long as the previous fifty did to cover, i love where i live and wouldnt change it for the world, but the biggest drawback is the distance between me and a lot of people i love, i&#8217;m sorta used to it with the vast swag of my family now living in Queensland but it dosnt make it any easier to cope with the distance that physically seperate&#8217;s us, (i dont mean it&#8217;s a pain in the butt to visit these people, just emotionally wrenching to leave them) i find this more and more difficult and wrenching each time i visit my family up north, or Phillip in Melbourne and as i said even with friend&#8217;s in Sydney, time is so precious and it&#8217;s so easy to let it slip by all to easily .. so to deal with this i&#8217;m going to invent a travel machine where i can be in Sydney in say 3 1\/2 minutes, Melbourne in 15 and the same for Qld, and each person will have there own personal travel machine so you wont have to worry about terrorism, i&#8217;m not sure how i&#8217;m going to do this, maybe i can work over Christine (my car) so it resembles the Delorean in &#8216;Back to the future&#8217; .. oh hang on, i&#8217;m drifting &#8216;Back to Bondi&#8217; before the future. It was so good catching up with Mariana and Barb&#8217;s, they live in a beautiful location in a totally funky flat,but everywhere the girls live they always manage to &#8216;funk up&#8217;, it was a beautiful winter&#8217;s day so we hoofed it down the road to get lunch, we found a cafe that sold the most yummy falaffel roll&#8217;s, tho poor Adam was traumatised by the green liquid the vines leaves were basted in, he assumed it was Palmolive dishwashing liquid, tho i doubt this to be true considering the rest of the day&#8217;s flatulence didnt involve any effervescent bubbles. It was a sobering reminder of our changing country and lifestyle that when we passed the Jewish club it was noted that all car&#8217;s entering the car park are now checked by security people, how soon before i start to sound like my parent&#8217;s by lamenting for the &#8216;good old day&#8217;s&#8217;. Walking back we pulled in for hot chocolate at this funky bookstore\/cafe that had the coolest old book&#8217;s to peruse and buy whilst scoffing piping hot chocolate. To further prove that opposite&#8217;s attract my purchase&#8217;s included &#8216;Bette and Joan &#8211; the feud&#8217; whilst Adam&#8217;s was a book by Steven Hawkin&#8217;s, this book shop (Gertrude and Alice) is a definite &#8216;must return&#8217; situation. We walked home along the front of Bondi beach and it was just beautiful at dusk, i took a photo (see below) of the full moon rising over Aussie&#8217;s most famous beach .. call me old fashioned but it dosnt take much to make old Tammy happy, and i can assure you you&#8217;d be hard pressed to offer up anything more enjoyable than a dusk walk along Bondi beach having a laugh with friends, i mean really .. who could ask for more?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lionking.org\/~adambell\/tammy\/July3104a.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lionking.org\/~adambell\/tammy\/July3104b.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This last Sunday Adam and i took a long overdue trip up to Bondi to visit two dear friend&#8217;s of our&#8217;s Barbara and Mariana .. oh, and Conchita (sp?) 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