With New Year on its way, and visitors starting to arrive in less than six weeks, we reckoned it was time to stock up.
The national pasttime here in Oz is drinking. Its taken so seriously that when other shops are forced by legislation to close (usually) at 5pm, and corner shops at 8pm, the offies are allowed to open anything up till 9pm, and given that they open at 8:30am, thats some going. I nipped out at 8:30ish yesterday morning to get some croissants for breakfast from the local bakery and the Bottle-O bottle shop thats beside it was hoaching. At 8:30 in the morning.
Most of the shops sell chilled crates of beer or pre-mixed drinks like breezers, some have large walk-in fridges for this.
They have drive in bottle shops as well. We had heard about this before we came over, but couldnt quite get our heads round this idea. They are popular. I will get a piccie and put it up here so you can see.
Anyway, we wanted to stock up our booze. So, we went to one of the many giant liquor shops (They often have great names like Thirsty Camel or, my favourite, Liquor Barons), these places are huge warehouses filled to bursting with beer, wine and spirits.
booze
Heh. We still had whisky, port, wine, beer, cider and peach schnapps in the house, this is just the new stuff.
But, thanks to Dan Murphys, we now have more 😀
Any requests from our visitors as to what they fancy while they are here?
I should point out that the WKD is already gone. It didnt last through dinner….