Aussies the world over celebrated Australia Day yesterday!
Our national day to commemorate the landing of the First Fleet in Sydney Harbour in 1788 and contemporarily to catch up with friends & family to drink beers, go swimming, eat BBQ lamb & sausages and then watch fireworks somewhere!
We just celebrate everything that’s great & multicultural about our country!
And for the first time, the Indigenous & Australian flags were flown side by side on the Harbour Bridge!
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Here’s my day….
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Left: baby spinach, red cabbage, radish, fennel, pomegranate & balsamic
Right: green beans, cherry tomatoes, avocado, radish & flaxseed
NZ can have their pavlova, cause we’ve got the lamington!!! For those of you who are unfamiliar with this delicious treat, it’s soft sponge layered with strawberry jam & cream and coated with chocolate then rolled in coconut. The BEST small cake in the universe…
well, what else am I going to do with a giant $4 watermelon???!!!
it’s a little blurry with excitement but you get the drift! lots of people, lots of fireworks!
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I hope all the Aussies had a wonderful Australia Day!
For everyone else; happy weekend!
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That lamington looks sooo good..
I can’t admit to making it though -it’s from Coles!
Those salads and the lamingtons look so amazing! I’m totally recreating! Was debating coming in to the city, now having been reminded of the crowds at DH, I’m so glad we didn’t!
I’ve always wanted to watch the Ferrython though!
Crowds galore but still, you gotta love Clover and her awesome sense of city pride!!! There were fireworks everywhere!
I have never heard of a lamington, but now I really want one!!
I have never heard of a lamington, but now I really want one!
They are an Australian source of pride! There are recipes online that you can make – it would be totally worth the effort!!!
Happy Australia Day!! Everything looks so good 🙂
looks like it was a great day! happy australia day!
thanks Liz!!! hope you’re keeping warm!
Love a good write up on Aussie-isms. And your pics made me hungry and thirsty all at once! Great Aussie Day post (I know, I’m late…
) I was incredibly un-Australian, and didn’t really celebrate. But I did go and see Life of Pi, which was amazing…