{"id":359,"date":"2007-09-01T00:06:23","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T07:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=359"},"modified":"2007-09-11T22:44:18","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T05:44:18","slug":"oz-report-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Oz Report – Part 4 – Sydney Aquarium"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m blogging this from Melbourne as we are staying with our friends the Boards (see the Ben-n-Em link on the blogroll).<\/p>\n

Friday.<\/p>\n

We got up early and headed over to Henry Deane Plaza to have breakfast at Henry Henry, a nightspot and cafe\/bar there.<\/p>\n

\"Henry<\/a><\/p>\n

Mini-Elbeno managed to fall over and although it didn’t seem like a bad fall, he cut his lip and bled a bit. Consequently we didn’t really eat much breakfast – and they missed out half our order through a misunderstanding, so we put that episode behind us and headed over to Darling Harbour.<\/p>\n

We got our own guided tour of the Maritime Museum from Bob & Dolores, which was really interesting. A maritime museum sounds a bit boring, but it was actually interesting and covered all kinds of Australian history, right up to the present day and including swimming and surfing culture. Outside the museum were a few ships, including the HMS Endeavour, reconstructed from the original plans in Greenwich.<\/p>\n

\"HMS<\/a><\/p>\n

We went to Sydney Aquarium in the afternoon and mini-Elbeno loved all the fish, turtles, etc. This was also the first time I’d seen a real life platypus, and the shark oceanarium was great. We stayed in there for a while watching the rays and sharks swim all around and above us.<\/p>\n

Returning to the hotel area of town, we decided to eat at an Italian place up the road called Fratelli Paradiso. Mini-Elbeno wasn’t being particularly patient though and we tried to eat quickly. Then we had a quick run back through the rain and our usual early(ish) night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m blogging this from Melbourne as we are staying with our friends the Boards (see the Ben-n-Em link on the blogroll). Friday. We got up early and headed over to Henry Deane Plaza to have breakfast at Henry Henry, a nightspot and cafe\/bar there. Mini-Elbeno managed to fall over and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}