vasse felix

Being 4 months preggy and having the sniffles while on holidaying wasn't the difficult part for me, it was watching everyone drink fantastic wines day in day out which was the most difficult. If it were the run-of-the-mill ones, I wouldn't have cared, but it was the wonderful wines from Vasse Felix. I tried them before pre-preggy days and yes, they are premium wines. It doesn't help that the lot of them drunkards were rubbing salt into my ballooning belly. I am proud to say I didn't have a single drop of vino all 9 days (except for that sip of alter wine at mass). Here's the only thing I enjoyed during the trip to the winery - the dusky view of the cellar door and vineyard.

the elusive red rooster in bunbury

On our way down south, our friend, Fabian insisted we gotta try red rooster's strip subs. We saw numerous red roosters as we drove towards Margaret River, until of course we were ready to eat, and what do you know? The red roosters disappeared. We drove round and round Bunbury - it being quite a large suburban town, we couldn't believe our luck in not finding one. By then, the entire party was so set on strip subs, we just couldn't settle for anything else. We were starting to chant "Strip subs! Strip subs!" in the car. Our perseverance paid off in the end. We found the elusive red rooster and its famed (in fabian's eyes, or rather tastebuds) strip subs. The verdict? Fantastic fast food on the go. Better than any of the crap we get here at least. The chicken was tender and flavourful and the breading was crunchy with spikings of sesame seeds and herbs. I liked the dill in the mayo-y dressing which came with it. The baguette was a nice foil to everything else within. (I had, on another occasion, the wrap which was not as good - kinda mushy) The red rooster's strip sub was worth the hour wasted in the car chanting and the hunger pangs.