Lunchtime Adventure Challege. Destination: Rue Bebelons

If you don't recall, myself and my cousin Bec in Adelaide and my friend Daragh in Perth sometimes have lunchtime adventures and share the experience with eachother as it is often amusing and interesting to see other cities and vicariously dine out through eah other.

Daragh had the idea that we could pick a place on Google Maps for eachother to go to, and to see what it is like. So I was first up to try out this new adventure challenge. The challenge was extended by Daragh yesterday who did a search of all the coffee places within a 5min radius of my work in Melbourne CBD. He chose Rue Bebelons for... i'm assuming the fruity name much akin to his own fruity nature.

The name Rue Bebelons APPARENTLY literally translates as Little Lonsdale street - luckily it is located on little lonsdale street, or things could get a little confusing...

I originally planned to go there alone, but as i will explain, I am really glad my work mate came with me... as hung over as she was... it wouls have been massive awkward if i went alone!

So.. we were walking along Little Lonsdale Street, when out of a door like 2cm in front of us came these two girls:


we neaarly walked into them!! i was like "haha that's funny....." then kept walking... then OMG WHY ARENT I TAKING A PICTURE OF THIS?!?!?! So yeah unfortunately i didn't get a frontal picture, the hat is meant to look like Jack Pumpkinhead (from the Nightmare before Christmas) wearing a santa hat. You can kinda see his face...

Anyone ever heard the theme song for "the odd couple"? well for some reason that started playing in my head as i watched those two friends.

We found Rue Bebelons soon after we saw those girls:

We thought it was closed actually as it was empty and the door was closed and it was dark. MY work mate said "actually i think it is open" so we went inside to settle our tormenting internal debate.

It was deserted except for one foreign bartender, haha awkwardddd. Not at all what i expected from reading online reviews about a bustling night spot where you are lucky to get a drink! The first thing i noticed, apart from the feeling that i had just walked in on a conversation about "how crap jade is. oh shh shh here she is...." was all the cool nick nacks and posters and cute table cloths.

After the bartender stared at us for a while not prompting us to follow any etiquette like "order at the bar" or "here are some menus" or anything we ended up sitting by the window and i went to ask him if he had a menu. He pointed at a sign and said "only sandwiches". And i said "ok i'll have a sandwich and a cappucino"...

i accidentally got a salad only roll as i thought that the meat came as standard hehe. But here is what i ate....

the roll was delicious as you can see above. The bread was delicious but pretty hard, but the fact that there was avocado spread, fresh tomato, humungo cucumber, lettuce, cheese, cracked pepper and honey mustard mayo WELL AND TRULY made up for it. Also you can see me enjoying the roll below:

Points to note in the above picture:

- my hair, while re-growthy and faded, is pretty much camoflaged into the wall

- on my left arm (non-ring) i have scar tissue from a viscious Corella (sp) attack. My mums bf has a dumb giant angry corella that hates me.

- i have those cool shadows cast by my glasses up my eyebrows that always reminds me of Billy from Power Rangers, slumped over a computer using his amazing brain skills, or of michael keaton for some reason. I think he had the same shadow effect in a movie.... batman...? yes i think so...

- i am wearing 2 new tops purchased only yesterday from Valley Girl - $9.95 each. Singlet and mini cardigan thing. both amazing.

- Cleavage. don't act like you didn't see it straight away.

Here is my work mate doing the only responsible thing when you have a hangover at work. Drink beer on your lunch break. haha. i shall lead by example tomorrow and come to work after lunch plastered :)

While we were at the window seat we had a great opportunity to do some people watching - my favourite sport. I saw 3 AMAZING moustaches but wasnt quick enough with the camera. We watched these people holding a mannequin across the road for a while. for some reason they amputated everything and were trying to stash her in a car. I have photo evidence of this crime, and will turn it in to the cops if they do not meet my demands! muahhaaaa

Then a man came in and got a roll to go:

Oh i totally forgot to mention the coolest thing about the place! They had shelves and shelves of records and had the record player hooked up to the sound sytem and there were some awesome reggae tunes playing, then some jazz flute number. It was sick! i wanted to take some pics but the bartender was creepy and he was standing in the way of it haha. It would be cool as a night bar - which is what it is usually :) I think the other bar tender was dealing coke or something. He was nervously holding his phone while sitting on a bar stool with his foot tapping rapidly, then when he would get a message he would jump up and run outside for a few minutes, then come back in. He did this about 5 times in the short time we were there. fishhhy. nah i'm sure he's legit :S

Anyway, this is the view from the window - melbourne central spire :) ah melbourne.... xooxxo

my work mate wasn't happy with the beer and decided she needed some nandos chips on the way back to work haha....

Challenge executed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, Daragh did a really funny one the other day to "Adam's Brunchbox". I will try to get him to put it on his blog so i can link to it instead of me putting it on mine. Also Bec is sending pics of her one today, and daragh is doing another one today. He works in an industrial area in Perth so there are all these dodgy take away shacks and stuff. ahaha. gold.