Not a short walk

Today we were pretty much taking it easy. Terri swam a kilometre in the hotel pool, and I took a walk to Nelson Bay to find an ATM. It was a nice walk, though longer than I'm used to. I thought it was going to be fairly quick, but it was 40min in each direction.

I found the tourist trap. It was full of tourists. I didn't expect this area to have a large tourist population, but there they were.

I took a few iPhone photos on the way - you can see these on my Facebook if you're interested. It seems that Facebook will now collect photos off your photo stream and compile them automagically into a collage. That was nice.

After that I had a bit of an adventure trying to get my clothes washed. See, it's been raining at home, and since we have to dry clothes on an actual clothesline because we don't have a dryer, we haven't been able to do any washing for a while, and I'd run out of t-shirts and pants. Well... mostly run out.

The resort where we're staying has laundry facilities, but they're coin-operated. This was the reason I needed to find an ATM this afternoon. But it turns out that the laundry is in a different building, and our door card doesn't work in the other building. Got that sorted out - they had to issue me a temporary card at Reception to allow me into the laundry. And it turned out that the laundry had the world's slowest dryer so I had to get my clothes out while they were still slightly damp and hang them on a rack in our room.

Dinner was at a little place called Marco's. It was slow, but it was a Saturday night and they were quite busy, so I forgive them for that. The awesome waitress gave us complementary olives while we were waiting, which was nice because neither of us had eaten since breakfast and we were both very hungry. I had pasta shells stuffed with spinach and ricotta in a tomato sauce, and it was really nice. It wasn't spectacular, or innovative, but it was hearty and well-made. I figured that it wouldn't be at all difficult to do at home, especially if I made the pasta myself - which is something that I've been totally planning on doing for a while now.

Dessert was gelati from a literal guy-in-a-booth. Good gelati too. We'll probably go back to him a couple of times before the week is over.