By the time we were finished the kids were ready as well… and hungry… so we moved on to the monorail and bought a ‘family pass’ so we could get on and off as often as we wanted.
Usually we’d not bother as it doesn’t go anywhere interesting but this time it actually went where we wanted… the Queen Victoria Building… or ‘the QVB’ as it’s affectionately known!
I like the QVB, it’s a quirky little place full of shops of an idiosyncratic nature ranging from cheap lace and touristy junk, to fine art with a selection of decent small cafes and restaurants to boot.
After wandering around looking at the shops for a while we gravitated to a small restaurant tucked away at the top of the building. I had the grilled atlantic salmon with salad, the wife had Thai beef with noodles… and the kids their ubiquitous nachos, and wedges with sour cream and sweet chilli sauce… ewww.
The salmon was probably farmed but was still *very* acceptable. I tried one piece of the Thai beef but it wasn’t highly flavoured enough for me. Odd really as the salmon and salad were very delicately flavoured.
We sat quietly chatting and reading the Sunday broadsheets until we felt we needed to make a move leaving a decent tip because of the excellant service we’d received.
From there we began to make our way down to Darling Harbour where we intended to catch a ferry to the far side of the bridge.
The Eclectic Interweb 