Surry Hills Walkabout

Today we went discovering Surry Hills. It had been awhile since I traipsed about the area and I was on a task to find a present. Meandering through the busy areas of Darling Harbour, Chinatown, Hillsong conference at Entertainment Centre, I’d forgotten that it was school holidays so it was an obstacle course of people, prams and the mini train.

Once finally free of the crowded streets, we made our way up along Devonshire Street along Crown Street and popped into Vividshop which is a great little store with funky babywear, jewellery, homewares and fashion from India and the South east and Mushu which is another great bag , accessories and on Crown Street. Managed to pick up some great greeting cards from Vividshop.

Then onto

Bourke Street

where we stopped for lunch. There was already a line up at Bourke Street Bakery but the café opposite ‘The Book kitchen’ is where we stopped in. Roomy enough for prams I went for the breakfast special of haloumi, asparagus and poached eggs on toasted bread with lemon oil. Yum Yum. Jaeminkins had managed to sleep for half an hour and without fail as soon as the food came, he awoke.

Luckily I was prepared with an assortment of snacks. I had a tub of grapes, fruit salad, peanut butter sandwich, broccoli +apple+ tuna+ sweet potato mix. At the moment Jaeminkins loses interest in eating just one type of food so I’ve had to mix it up. So it may be the peanut sandwich and then the grapes, and then back to the peanut butter sandwich and just switching it around til he’s eaten enough.

We then went to the park and the bubs play around whilst enjoying the sweet tarts from Bourke Street Bakery. We tried the Ginger crème brulee, chocolate with marshmallow and raspberry and the rhubarb almond tart. Yum Yum.

 Oh I nearly forgot to mention, Jaeminkins discovered eating dirt and seemed to enjoy it quite thoroughly.

We had another wonder along

Crown Street

and popped into Paper2, a store with fine stationary, designer pens. This is where I found a great gift for my friend’s baby naming ceremony.

As we made our downhill descent on

Albion Street

with the prams, we giggled as we saw a guy pushing a pram uphill and he knew we laughing at him.

To end the day we stopped into Cloth and admired the screen printed textiles and then walked over to Shelf/Life. I loved this store it just had gorgeous pieces for the home, it reminded me of the funky stores in Fitzroy Melbourne.

It brought back a lot of memories walking around Surry Hills and I was amazed at how much has changed. Definitely coming back to check out the rest of the shops=)