The fourth cafe we tried, after we discover most of the best ones aren't opening between Christmas and New Year. Something odd about the milk, but this managed to be a tasty cup even so - Foxy orders another one! Good caffeine hit, not cloying, and reasonable flavour. Helped by great breakfasts (Foxy votes this his new best breakfast). AB

Splish splash smash.We went to watch Christy's chap Dan play water polo in Drummoyne pool. Neither of us has ever seen (or played) water polo before, but what we learned while watching is as follows:- Team of 7 players. - 4 quarters/periods of 8 minutes each, although the clock stops when play does, like rugby.- 30 second directional plays. - A sin bin system of 'exclusions' of 20 seconds for fouls which happen on a surprisingly regular basis, but no...

Bought from a kind old Italian man, in a rundown suburb of Sydney, we really wanted to like this take away effort. One of his signs outside called it 'award winning coffee'... Well, there can be all sorts of awards, can't there? Again, one was significantly worse than the other (mine, of course!)... But not as pronounced as the Halfway Creek effort. Too milky, too faceless, forgettable. (BUT WE GOT A RICH TEA BISCUIT AND FELT AT HOME FOR A LITTLE)(Not...

A takeaway cup at the Waterpolo pool. Not bad! Strong, good but monotone flavour. Bought to keep us warm, but then the sun came out. Oops.

After all the fun and overconsumption of yesterday's Boxing Day (aka Christymas), today was an altogether chilled out affair, with not much to report.We arose late-ish from our hotel room to check out and leave our bags at the concierge, so that we could have brunch at the nearby Coogee Pavilion. Unfortunately, it was reasonably disappointing - indeed we've had much better in Australia. We then decline an offer of a lift back to Carlton from Christy, so w...