February 19th, 2010 | Author: van | Filed under: eats | No Comments »
Although it meant missing out on dinner with my car buddies (i.e. not the car buddies that I work with every day), I caught up with a couple members of the TMR team last night for dinner at Lucky’s, in Hawthorn. Excellent food, and actually a really well-designed place.
I am embarrassed to say that I didn’t get any photos of the restaurant itself, but I intend to eat there again sometime in the near future, so I’ll grab some more shots next time.
Above, my black pepper beef dinner. Below the break, a few more photos.
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February 15th, 2010 | Author: van | Filed under: eats, friends | 1 Comment »
I tell you what, these clever Chinese, they’re hooking into all the special days. Last year it was Chinese New Year on January 26 - also Australia Day - and this year it’s Valentine’s Day!
Wow, that comes across as sort of racist. Curse this hypersensitive age we live in.
Moving on, I grabbed a quick lunch on Sunday with my buddy Jac before returning to the office to work on the new TMR website.
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February 9th, 2010 | Author: van | Filed under: autos, eats | No Comments »
Dinner at Mocha Jo’s with a friend last night. Warm Thai beef salad, for the both of us.
Oh, but I do love this one. If it were a steak, you’d call the meat medium-rare. I might even see if they’ll make it straight rare next time. Why wouldn’t they?
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February 8th, 2010 | Author: van | Filed under: misc | No Comments »
Hey, who said blog posts had to be useful? But there’s a couple more after the jump, if there’s something wrong with you.
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February 2nd, 2010 | Author: van | Filed under: autos | No Comments »
As a motoring journo, I get to kick around in some pretty special cars. It’s not the highest paying gig in the world, to be honest, so it’s perks like these that make it worthwhile. (until it comes time to buy a house, and then getting to drive nice cars becomes fairly useless to you!)
Because I’m TMR’s News Editor, I don’t do many reviews anymore. Running the news simply takes too much of my time as it is, so squeezing in a review each week is more than I can take on. Because of this, I usually only get the cars for a day or two.
This week, I’ve been lucky enough to get my hands on the latest generation Golf GTI, thanks to Volkswagen Australia being only too aware of my obsession with the new Golf.
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February 2nd, 2010 | Author: van | Filed under: autos, work | No Comments »
I’m not 100 percent sure that I understood correctly, but… I think I’ve been invited to the 2010 Australian F1 Grand Prix in March. Is it still in March? Heck if I know…
And it’s all thanks to Craig Lowndes and that bloody Roary the Race Car. It’s no Thomas the Tank Engine, but then I guess Thomas could never get me invited to the F1, either.
Man, that makes three years in a row. I don’t even LIKE F1 all that much. But I DO like walking around and checking out all the classic cars and retired race cars on display around the outside of the track. So that’ll make it worth it.
Now, I just need to find out if I was actually invited or if I completely misunderstood!
February 2nd, 2010 | Author: van | Filed under: autos, friends, outings, work | No Comments »
Boys that needed a shower and a damn good sleep.
Here’s a few simple photos from a recent weekend away with my fellow motoring scribes. As you can see from the shot about, we took a Range Rover Sport, Land Rover Discovery 4 and a Jeep Wrangler off on a weekend of bashing around the Victorian countryside. ‘Twas as good a weekend as one can ask for, to be honest.
A few more shots after the break.
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