- A view of the paddock from in front of our holiday cottage
My Australian visit
Posted on February 12, 2007 by Ailbhe Phelan
I can’t believe it is less than a month since I returned from my visit to Perth, Western Australia. We’ve been so busy at Decoder since I got back that I never got around to posting some of the photos and sketches I made while out there for my long holiday – nearly 4 sun-filled weeks!
At last I’ve gathered some images of the fantastic food we had to eat out there but strangely enough it seems I never got around to snapping the many bottles of lovely wines we sampled (or rather, those I did photograph ended up a bit blurred, ahem). Needless to say there was lots of seafood eaten and a few of those famous australian meat pies which have to be eaten with ‘red sauce’. One of the best was the emu pie we had from a road cafe on State Route One while travelling down to Margaret River.
I spent a week in Margaret River, a vineyard area south of Perth, and while there managed to get in some sketching which I hadn’t done for a long time. This year I’ve resolved to get back to sketching regularly and hope to be able to post some of my efforts every now and then. In the meantime I offer two little sketches here.