Sunday, January 28, 2007

Blackberries in Sydney




On Friday before the ferry parade I followed the spectacular North shore coastline to Bradley's Head, a fantastic walk. On this tiny beach tucked away in Mosman at the foot of Taronga Zoo I found some blackberries! I had no idea they grew in the wild here. They bring back such strong memories of my childhood summers in Brittany... Anyway there you are, just when I thought I knew a few things about Sydney, I realise I know nothing...
I wish you a pleasant Sunday. Will you be watching the Australian Open grand final today (Federer vs Gonzalez) ? We will !

Vendredi avant la parade des ferries, j'ai suivi le sentier côtier de la rive nord jusqu'à Bradley's Head, une ballade magnifique. Au bord de cette minuscule plage nichée au pied de Taronga Zoo à Mosman, j'ai trouvé des mûres. Je n'avais aucune idée que ça poussait ici ! Ca m'a tellement rappelé mes étés d'enfance en Bretagne ! En tout cas voilà : moi qui croyais commencer à bien connaître Sydney, je réalise que je ne sais rien...
Je vous souhaite un bon dimanche. Allez-vous suivre la finale de tennis de l'Australian Open à Melbourne (Federer contre Gonzalez) ? Nous oui. A vos télés !

11 comments:

Kim said...

love your blog! as a fellow sydneysider it's fun seeing our city from another perspective. i love your blog so much that ive in fact posted a link to your blog on mine! keep up the great work!

Monsieur Pain d'épices said...

et le maitre a gagné une fois de plus... heureusement qu'il nous reste le rugby les dimanches apres midi à Bastia...

photowannabe said...

Another few weeks and the rest of those yummy berries will be ready. Love learning about Sydney on your blog.

bv said...

I love these blackberries soooo much more than the ones so many business men are addicted to these days*. For those who know what I am talking about, have some fun watching this, it will certainly ring a bell!

* Blackberry is a trademark for a personnal portable organiser offering phone-calendar-email-web browsing services all in one.

Anonymous said...

Blakberry pie is magnificent, Nathalie, but ----. Ther blackberry bush has proved sch a major menace in Australia's climate that it's been declared a noxious weed. Before eating the fruit, it might pay to be sure the patch hasn't been sprayed with poison?

Nathalie H.D. said...

I knew about lantana being a pest Norman, but I hadn't realised the blackberries were widespread enough to be a real danger, I'd never seen them before. No poison warning signs around that beach in Mosman anyway...

Nathalie H.D. said...

Oui Terra Vecchia, Federer a gagné encore une fois, et avec quel brio ! Penser qu'il n'a pas perdu un set de tout le tournoi... Pourtant, Gonzalez a remarquablement joué.

Yes Terra Vecchia, Roger Federer won once again, and so admirably. Can't believe he never lost a set in the whole tournament. But I enjoyed Gonzalez's game tremendously too...

Cergie said...

Comme il est merveilleux de toujours s'émerveiller, nathalie

Non seulement dans ton message / ta promenade (je remarque que l'automne approche. C'est une gageure de donner une notion de la saison ds les messages, comme ds les haikus ces petits mini poèmes japonais), à cause du mûrissement des mûres (ahahaaaaaa !)

Mais aussi sous ton message / le talent de Federer !
Je me demandais si tu parlerais de l'open et voilà, tu l'as fait

Sally said...

I loved that tennis match and was very happy federer won, and would have been equally as happy if Gonzales had won - they both seem like nice people too!
Probably don't see too many blackberries because of vigilant eradication!

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