We’ve now been in our new home for 6 weeks and this is the first weekend since we’ve shifted here that we’ve actually had time to just enjoy our home, our new surroundings and explore some of the area.

We’d promised ourselves before shifting here that we would go to the Kallista Tea Rooms on Sunday mornings for breakfast. We’d been there for morning or afternoon tea before when travelling in the area, and particularly when we were house hunting, but this is the first time since shifting that we came as ‘locals’.

It is a very popular venue and even at 9.30am on a Sunday it was pretty full, although one part was closed off for a group of MG Car enthusiasts and unfortunately for us, it happened to be the very section where we wanted to sit.

The tea rooms have glass walls – well almost glass walls. Lots of windows and outside one long length there are feeders where the native birds come and feed alongside the tea room patrons, just separated by the glass. I’d come with camera in hand hoping to get shots and was disappointed I couldn’t.  However that disappointment was shortlived because when we went out all the MGs had arrived instead and I was able to get shots of them.

Click on the one below to see more MGs on display.

And this image is just an example of the views we get along the Monbulk Road, less than 10 mins from our new home. We travel along this road to get to the tea rooms and then back home again.

Monbulk Road, Kallista