Within minutes, we were at the famed Cappuccino Strip - a cluster of cafes and coffee bars offering coffee of all flavours and hues in cups of all shapes and sizes. It was a brilliant day - the sun was shining ever so brightly and the buildings in this fully-restored town looked charming and attractive. We walked around on the streets and lanes, browsed in stores, went to the post office to get stamps, had coffee, ate lunch, and saw nice buildings.
Then, we walked to the heritage site known as the Fremantle Prison and from there, further on to the Esplanade. The Maritime Museum has an interesting collection. It is housed in two sites - a modern, futuristic, glass & metal structure; and a reconverted godown site associated with the port in the past. We went to the older building because it houses artifacts from ancient times and also because it focuses on shipwrecks. We saw remains of a part of the Batavia - this famous Dutch ship had sunk off the coast of Western Australia.
In the evening, we took an early train back to Perth. After all, it was the 9th of October and we had made a dinner reservation at Balthazar to celebrate our anniversary. It was a fantastic meal! The Balthazar is a great restaurant with a fantastic wine list. The ambience is warm and cosy, the lighting is subdued, the noise levels include a degree of chatter - reinforcing the intimacy of a place well visited, the staff are inspired, the chef is creative, and the manager... boy, is he good, or is he good? Dan knows his wine so bloody well - it is a fantastic learning experience to be simply try his recommendations! Over the course of the evening, having quickly learnt our preferences, he served us one lovely wine after the other (customised recommendations for Sabs and me!). What a treat it was! It was with some difficulty that we extricated ourselves from Balthazar and rolled our way to our hotel.
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