Mario cooking Boerewors

Look at the sausage! What does it remind you of? *LOL* It was long and spiral and more importantly, cooked with Beer! Yes, you heard me right!

Boerewors cooked with beer

It was apparently a common way to cook it back in South Africa and I was definitely looking forward to give it a try. After cutting it up, each piece was solid, huge and very filling! It had a strong peppery taste and the beef meat was coursely-ground. Interesting sausage really, never had one so huge before. *LOL*

Cooked Boerewors

Look at the feast we had that night! Lots of potatoes, bread, sausages and of course, the main item – BBQ lamb and chicken!

Dinner spread

Bread rolls

Mario cooked the potatoes for the longest time and they turned out to be so soft and yummy!

BBQ Sweet potatoes

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]]> http://www.iamthewitch.com/2010/07/30/juicy-bbq-lamb-chops-at-marios/feed/ 11 http://www.iamthewitch.com/2010/07/27/pie-in-the-sky-at-mount-dandenong/ http://www.iamthewitch.com/2010/07/27/pie-in-the-sky-at-mount-dandenong/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:17:09 +0000 iamthewitch http://www.iamthewitch.com/?p=2186 Hello people! I’m BACK! After 2 amazing and fun weeks in Victoria, I’m finally home sweet home. My body is still following Aussie time which is 2 hours in advance, which means I find it easier to wake up at 7am now (which is actually 9am in Aussie) compared to before.

Anyway, let’s continue with my posts from Melbourne, shall we? After visiting the city twice, we pretty much saw the gist of it, so we resorted to visiting the suburbs instead. Our plan next was to go up the mountains of Dandenong! This was me waiting for train at a station called Ringwood, which was near our serviced apartment.

witch at Ringwood train station

witch with the railway

To get to Mount Dandenong, one of the ways was to take the metro train to Belgrave and take a bus from there. The good thing about transportation here is that you buy tickets according to the time duration. Which means if you buy a 2-hour ticket, you can take whatever mode of transportation as long as it’s within 2 hours from your first swipe. This makes it that much easier than calculating the fare each time you want to transit and go somewhere. We got daily tickets, which meant unlimited traveling for the day!

Terminus at Belgrave Station

Once we’re at Belgrave station, we walked down the stairs and reached a terminus or a mini bus station. Look for Bus 694 to Olinda, which is the town in Mt Dandenong.

Can’t help but laugh at the picture below! *LOL* Can you guess what Saucer was doing? The fact is, it was extremely cold that morning, and with us being so close to the mountains, it was almost freezing! We could see water vapour forming every time we exhaled, and I tried to capture it on camera but failed. But how funny!

What is he doing?

Soon, the bus arrived and we continued our journey up along a slightly windy road with rain forest surrounding us. It was quite a pretty sight. There were a few stops that we could go, so we decided to start with the peak of Mt Dandenong first, called Sky High.

Sky High Mt Dandenong

Sky High is supposed to be an ultimate viewing point in Victoria since it’s up on the mountains but it was just not our lucky day, for the weather was pretty miserable. It was cold and wet, sometimes drizzling but the worst was that it was foggy throughout! Which meant we couldn’t see anything from the top! *sigh*

Look at the fog!

Not to mention it was freezing cold, so we couldn’t help but get ourselves warm with a cup of hot chocolate!

Hot chocolate with marshmallows

Cafe for hot chocolate

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