{"id":442,"date":"2006-03-25T23:34:31","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T23:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=442"},"modified":"2006-03-25T23:34:31","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T23:34:31","slug":"bondi_beach_redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/bondi_beach_redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondi Beach Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the first day when it&#8217;s not even threatening to rain.  Yay.  I even got to sleep in for a bit.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bighostel.com\">Big Hostel<\/a> is right next to Chinatown (which, btw, is ROCKIN&#8217; on Saturday nights) which means that decently priced (as opposed to bargain-priced) food is close by.  I was steered toward a dim sum house called Regal.  Had yum cha there.  It wasn&#8217;t bad. The siu-mai was a bit dry and the mango pudding was kinda bland.  Otherwise, not bad.  Their daan taat is very good and they had these mango pancakes on the cart.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/mangopancake.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/mangopancake.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/mangopancake-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Naturally, it came out last, so full, cannot eat.  Grrrrr.  <\/em><br \/>\nSince it was a sunny Sunday, it was a good day to go to Bondi Beach.  There was a flea market in one of the schools and a lot of people about.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/bondicrowd.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/bondicrowd.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/bondicrowd-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Sunny Sunday at Bondi Beach<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/bondibanner.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/bondibanner.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/bondibanner-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Appropriate advertising&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/bondisunning.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/bondisunning.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/bondisunning-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Sunbathers on the sand<\/em><br \/>\nBondi is a top optional beach and I figure that 40% of the people about were sans top.  No pix though.  So get your hom-suppy minds outta the gutter, this ain&#8217;t that kinda blog!!!  In the words of Ice Cube,  &#8220;&#8230;today was a good day&#8221;<br \/>\nSome pix of the neighbourhood too.  If Newport Beach became a big ass city, it would become what Sydney is.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/bondihood.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/bondihood.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/bondihood-thumb.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>I could live here&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\nThis little doggie was waiting in front of the restaurant for 2 minutes before I snapped it.  Either was really hungry or a good subject&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/arfarfarf.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/arfarfarf.html','popup','width=480,height=640,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/arfarfarf-thumb.jpg?resize=240%2C320\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the first day when it&#8217;s not even threatening to rain. Yay. I even got to sleep in for a bit. Big Hostel is right next to Chinatown (which, btw, is ROCKIN&#8217; on Saturday nights) which means that decently priced (as opposed to bargain-priced) food is close by. I was steered toward a dim &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/bondi_beach_redux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bondi Beach Redux&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2006-03-syd-and-the-hunter-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-78","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}