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?
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.
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!
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.
