{"id":1148,"date":"2010-06-25T19:34:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T02:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2010-07-11T17:15:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T00:15:04","slug":"exploring-melbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Melbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, since we got back from Brisbane, I figured I’d better start looking for a job.\u00c2\u00a0 I was fortunate to find a recruitment agency and was offered a 5-week temporary position at one of Melbourne’s biggest newspapers, The Age.\u00c2\u00a0 So far I have really been enjoying being back in an office environment.\u00c2\u00a0 Since we are both working, we haven’t had too much time to travel around.\u00c2\u00a0 However, we still enjoy exploring Melbourne and have spent the last month enjoying some of Melbourne’s great restaurants and cafes.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the “new” things in Melbourne is cafe’s with alternative brewing methods for coffee.\u00c2\u00a0 We went to the Sensory Lab to try out some siphon brewed coffee which we found to be more like American coffee than anything else they have here.<\/p>\n

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Looks more like a science experiment than a coffee shop<\/p><\/div>\n

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Scott trying his siphon coffee<\/p><\/div>\n

One of our favorite things about living in Melbs is the Queen Victoria Market.\u00c2\u00a0 Its the largest market in the southern hemisphere and is close enough to walk to from our flat.\u00c2\u00a0 We usually go every Saturday to enjoy a flat white (espresso with steamed milk, but somehow different than a latte or cappuccino) and do some shopping for the week.<\/p>\n

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Fruit and veg at Queen Vic Market<\/p><\/div>\n

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One of the stalls in the deli section with marinated olives, cheese, and sausages<\/p><\/div>\n

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You can even get live chickens and ducks<\/p><\/div>\n

Our main objective of last week’s market trip was to get make pickles.\u00c2\u00a0 We bought a preserving jar, cucumbers, salt, vinegar and a few other bits and pieces.\u00c2\u00a0 When we got home Scott made some yummy homemade pickles.<\/p>\n

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Homemade pickles made by Scott (recipe from Michelle, thanks Michelle!)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, since we got back from Brisbane, I figured I’d better start looking for a job.\u00c2\u00a0 I was fortunate to find a recruitment agency and was offered a 5-week temporary position at one of Melbourne’s biggest newspapers, The Age.\u00c2\u00a0 So far I have really been enjoying being back in an office environment.\u00c2\u00a0 Since we are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,55],"tags":[96,60,54,53],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-victoria-australia","tag-australia","tag-food","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejohnsonsjournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}