Friday was the fortnightly online games night with my friends. I was a bit late to it because my wife went into the city after work to do some Christmas shopping, and then headed back on the Metro to Crows Nest, where I met her with Scully.
We went to a nearby wine bar for dinner, a place called Knird which we’d wanted to try for some time since they opened a little while back. We managed to get a table out on the alley where it’s located so we could sit with Scully. We had some glasses of wine and ordered a few of the small bites and sharing plates form the menu. The food was all really good and the wines nice. It was a little expensive, but a very pleasant dinner and way to end off the working week.
We made it home a little after 8pm and I joined in the online gaming. We just played some of the old regulars: Just One, Jump Drive, 6 Nimmt.
Saturday morning I got up a bit earlier than usual. After breakfast I went for my 5k run, so I could get back home and have a shower before driving up the coast to my mother’s place. We met her and my brother for lunch at a local pizza place. We had a good lunch and caught up with things. I don’t see my family very much so it was good to have this lunch together.
As we left, my wife said she felt like stopping somewhere along the way home for coffee. I used my phone to search for cafes in the area, but almost every single one was closed. Most closed at 3m on a Saturday. This is one of the super weird things about Australia, compared to most other countries. Nearly all the cafes here close mid-afternoon – it’s virtually impossible to find one open after 3pm.
I did manage to find one, and it had a good star rating, but it was 20 minutes drive away, so we took a scenic route back to the freeway, stopping off there for the coffee. When we got there, it turned out to be more like a general store in a tiny backwater, but they had a coffee machine and my wife got her coffee. After that it was another 20 minutes back to the freeway to drive home again.
We got in around 5pm. I made quiche for dinner, after which we walked Scully in the cool evening air. Today was pretty warm, around 30°C. And when we got home we gave Scully a bath.
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Is “Knird” related to Sir Pterry’s “knurd”?
I was very surprised by how everything in Germany shuts down around noon on Sunday. At least, that was true in the resort town of Bad Kreuznach.