Tuesday two

Korean BBQ on Tuesday night at Sydney Madang. It's super fun - you order the meats you want and cook it on the grill built into the table - but you just need to sort of keep an eye on things. I greatly enjoy the little side dishes you can keep getting refills of.


Afterwards, we went to Aqua S, which is apparently the newest ice cream craze in Sydney (it's in Regent Place, across from Chanoma the green tea cafe). Their signature is this blue sea salt soft serve, but I played it safe and went for chocolate with a marshmallow. I was regretting not getting the fairy floss topping instead until Wai Lam's fairy floss began to melt over her hands from the humidity.

4 in 4

I haven't been up to much in the past month or so - going out with friends has generally involved watching the Socceroos Asian Cup matches at The Star, which doesn't make for the most interesting photos or posts. Here's my tiny roundup for the last few weeks.


Rainy day a couple of weeks ago.


Ate Belly Bao in Goodgod. They're alright, but the prices are a bit steep for tiny baos.


Went to the Asian Cup final between Australia and South Korea. We got worse seats this time but the atmosphere was great, it was a full house. Australia was 1 up at full time and then Korea scored in injury time, I thought I was going to die. But the Socceroos won it in the end. It was such a good tense match to be there for.


It's been coolish for the last few weeks but beach weather was back today so we took advantage of it. We changed things up and went to Coogee; I think I still prefer Bondi, it's cliche but I love seeing that vast expanse of beach as the bus turns the corner there.

Strait-laced

Tommy Hilfiger shirt / UNIQLO pants / Bass loafers / Fossil bag.

I guess one of the only things I've found easier than expected about being on hospital placement every day is dressing for it. The dress code for doctors is pretty lax so I've been able to wear what I usually would, minus jeans, since my style is sort of smart-casual to start with. This is more formal than what I usually wear but I really wanted to wear the top with these patns! Still in love with this bag, expect a cliche what's in my bag post soon.

Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu is probably the most famous of the Incan sites, and the place I was most excited to see after Rio. You can do a 4-day hike on the Inca Trail from Ollantaytambo, or just catch a 3 hour train to Aguas Calientes. We went for the train, because I know my limits and walking for four days is past that (lucky we did, because we couldn't even make it down the street with the altitude).


Aguas Calientes, where you catch the bus to Machu Picchu (or it's about a two hour hike).



Again we did a tour with a guide to start off with, who explained the significance of the various places around the site.






Still blowing my mind how this was built in the 15th century.





"Jenny can you take a photo of me from-"
"If you ask me to take one of those cliched photos of you from behind I will throw your phone off this ledge."
"... behind?"

A classic llama shot.



"Is that llama okay?"


We picked out a nice rock to sit on and watched the sunlight shifting over the city for ages. I still can't believe I've been there!

That was our last stop in South America. I've still got San Francisco and LA to talk about but I might hold off on those for a few weeks and get some more up to date posts I've been meaning to write up!