A group of us headed down to Sorrento last Saturday for a barbeque. Lucky for us it was a beautiful 25°C Melbourne day, perfect for the first day of the Australian summer.

We had a massive barbeque feast, a few of beers and kicked the soccer ball around a little. We then spent the rest of the day relaxing on the beach soaking up the sunshine. So yeah, it was mad day.

Below are some of the photos taken on the day. The weird photo of the thing that looks like a transparent piece of poo I think is some sort of jelly fish. Well, that’s my guess anyway.

The girlfriend and I headed up to Geelong and Barwon Heads for the day just to do a bit of sightseeing and walking. It was good to do something a bit more outdoorsy for a change. It was a bit cloudy and grey outside but luckily the rain held back. It was also surprisingly pretty warm.

Firstly, we went to Geelong and did a bit of walking around the Eastern Beach area. Then we drove up to Barwon Heads. We stopped and checked out the Barwon River views and then we went for a walk to Barwon Bluff to check out the rock pools. It was all pretty cool. Check out the photos.

Met up with Tracy for lunch today and afterwards she went back to work and I decided to go for a bit of a walk around and take a few shots of Saigon. This is such a diverse city with its mix of Western and Vietnamese influences making photographs all the more interesting.

Most of the photos were taken today but some where taken about a week ago.

I headed into the Pho 24 restaurant on Mac Thi Buoi Street in District 1 yesterday for a late lunch. I ordered combo 2 which included a bowl of pho noodle soup, beef balls and a fruit shake for 50,000 dong (USD$3.10). I chose the pho with the thinly sliced beef (pho tai) and the mango fruit shake.

The food was on the table within minutes and I wasted no time chowing it down. The pho was hot and tasty and the mango fruit shake was ice cold and full of flavour. So yeah, that was my quick and simple yet satisfying lunch at Pho 24.

Man, what a night. Got home, laid on my bed and before I knew it was morning. It was Tram and Nguyen’s birthday yesterday so we had a few drinks to celebrate at the Shadow bar on Dong Du Street in District 1.

Lots of good food and plenty of booze always makes for a good party so after a few hours I was pretty much totalled. So yeah, check out some of the photos from the night.