Engineers toy.

Ford GT engine.

Detroit

One of the Ford buildings.

Penguins not allowed.

Yep

It's a cheap hotel room.

It's cold.

Brrrrrrr

Mmmmmm

Doesn't that pizza look good .....

I call it

Sunset over the clouds with fingers.

LA

Just goes on and on ...

Delta snack

Another shot of LA

Not sure which part this is but the light is great.

Empty flight to Detroit

LA from the air.

Up above the clouds.

San Jose from the air.

See

You just hop out. ;)

Great seat.

Not !!

Hands at San Jose

Small

Enough that it doesn't have escape slides. You just jump !!

New Ford

Bike !!

Dinner.

I read about this combination and had to try it.

Verdict : yum.

Foggy fisheye

A little foggy this morning.

Fire scare

In the building opposite.

Robert Burns

Happy Robbie Burns day.

The closest I could get was Haggis on a stick and some Scotch eggs.

(I'm sure my poor father currently has his head in his hands and is asking himself where he went wrong. ;)

Sunset over Chevron.

Cute mandarin

And it was yummy.

Now that's

How all bike lanes should be !!

Opera house

San Francisco opera house at night.

Dinner

I went to a local Polish restaurant called Bona for dinner tonight.
I had herring for entree, it was delicious.

And for main.

I had Stuffed beef rolls filled with bacon, onion and pickles, with Silesian (potato) dumplings and beetroot salad on the side.

Yum.

Snails. ;)

Aseptic milk

Mmmm, sounds delicious.

I think they are trying to indicate that it has been heat sterilised,
ie it's UHT milk.

Burger

With John.

Chocolate selection

Yum.

How are

Green guavas

Different from

Yellow guavas ?!?

Big, shiny

Mirror wheels.

Coffee words.

Came with my coffee.

Airline food 2

Midnight snack. ( might have been mid morning ...)

Airline food

Beef for dinner.

Landed

Spotted the spirit of Australia.

Dads medal.

Very cool. ;)

Now that's a

Coffee machine. ;)

Movida.

Another day, another restaurant. This one is called Movida after the Spanish revolution in 1975, according to it's website. As with a lot of Melbourne restaurants this one is located in a little laneway off the main road.

The outside is decorated and blends in with the lane's graffiti.

I started with a good Melbourne beer, the Mountain Goat Steam Ale. Very fruity with a slightly bitter finish.

Just inside the entrance to the restaurant is a tiled wall with the Movida logo. I wasn't having much luck photographing it and the waiter saw me and cheekily gave Louise the Movida business card which had the same logo ...

The card.

The menu is very simple with lots of little tapas to share and enjoy.

The bread is fantastic, a tangy sourdough and a cake like white loaf. Served with a pepper, fruity olive oil.

First to the table were these beautiful croquetas de choco en su tinta, which from the Spanish you might think were something to do with chocolate. In fact, they were delicious squid ink croquettes with cuttlefish. Yum !!

Here's the inside of them with the cuttlefish on the lower half.

Next we had fried zucchini flowers stuffed with goats curd and honey, sweet, crunchy, grassy and salty all at once.

Then we had Luenga. One simple word in Spanish that means "Char grilled veal tongue with a green pepper sofrito." Amazing how one word can mean all that, and they were delicious.

The main dishes that we ordered started arriving, first the delicious Bistec tartar de wagyu. Translated as Spicy steak tartare of raw, grass-fed wagyu beef. It was fresh and wonderfully creamy.

Next was the house made chorizo, which was a special and probably the best chorizo that I've had.

The Papada con membrillo also arrived and I thought it was very good, very creamy and satisfying but Louise thought it was a bit too rich for her. Oh, and it translates to pork jowl with quince paste, chickpea shoots and fennel pollen.

We also had the Boquerones, the white anchovy and caperberry salad, which helped to freshen and clear the palate for dessert and which I neglected to get a photo of. Dessert was a caramel cake with pear icecream. it was green pear which was tangy and spritzig.

We finished our coffee and staggered outside to find that it had been raining quite heavily and that the lane lights on the wall had turned on. They blended in very well with the graffti.