Remember two days ago I talked about transferring our physical Japanese Suica transit cards onto our phones, in preparation for travelling to Japan? Once the transfers were done, the phone said that the physical cards would no longer work and we could discard them.
Lucky I didn’t! One of them is a standard issue Suica card, but the other one, which we got for my wife when we travelled to Japan together last time, turned out to be a limited issue commemorative card. To be precise, one of these ones, which is currently selling on eBay for about A$130. These limited edition cards are quite the collectors’ item apparently. I did find some others for sale online for prices ranging from about A$20 and upwards, mostly on Asian sites. I might just hold onto it for a bit and see if it’s worth anything decent in several years.
Today my wife suggested we go over to Marrickville for lunch. She was keen to explore the suburb since it has a reputation as a place with a good variety of cafes and restaurants, and we’ve only ever been there a handful of times many years ago. One of my friends lives nearby and recommended a cafe called Two Chaps to us.
We drove over – about 30 minutes – and took Scully with us and managed to grab a table right on the transition from street to indoors, where staff told us we could sit with a dog. The menu is 100% vegetarian. I couldn’t go past the “Corned Beet” Reuben sandwich, which the menu suggested would be good with a side of crispy potato skins. So I had that.
Wow. This was amazingly good. Really delicious, and generously filling. There were other very tempting goodies as well, including mushroom pies and potato and cheddar pies, and a range of amazing looking sweets and pastries. But I was so full after the Reuben that we just had to leave and go for a long walk to walk it off. We walked a loop around several blocks, passing many other interesting cafes and bakeries and things.
Back home this evening I had three more ethics classes on Natural Resources. And worked on another Darths & Droids strip, which now safely brings me to the other side of my trip to Japan. So I have enough buffer to last through the trip, phew!
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