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Speaker 1: Welcome to your Diary episode. Here's the thing. I'm a

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Speaker 1: bit of a nomad, so these episodes come to from

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Speaker 1: wherever I'm living or traveling to at the time, So

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Speaker 1: I'll share with you what's going on in my world,

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Speaker 1: from book tours, animal encounters, delish meals, nature adventures, health

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Speaker 1: discoveries to swimming in hidden Byron Bay beaches. Come with

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Speaker 1: me as I share my adventures with you. Hello, right,

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Speaker 1: oh Diary pod. Yes, coming to you from Byron Bay,

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Speaker 1: but coming to you from Hotel Marvel in Byron Bay

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Speaker 1: on Marble Street. So I have been lucky enough to well, Boston,

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Speaker 1: I have been lucky enough to be staying here the

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Speaker 1: last few nights because it's been our five year anniversary

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Speaker 1: and the PR team reached out and we're like, okay,

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Speaker 1: do you want to come and stay? And we thought, well,

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Speaker 1: why not have a stake for our five year anniversary.

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Speaker 1: So we have been loving it. We have been soaking

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Speaker 1: it up. It's got this cool kind of like minimal

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Speaker 1: exposed cemente kind of vibe. Everything is linen, like, the

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Speaker 1: bed is super comfy, all that kind of thing. So,

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Speaker 1: first of all, if you're new, like thinking about coming

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Speaker 1: to Byron. The good thing about staying somewhere like here

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Speaker 1: is you can walk, like to Breki, to the beach,

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Speaker 1: to all the shopping Enviyron like you are literally in

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Speaker 1: the thick of it. You're next to like the iconic

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Speaker 1: Bay Leaf Cafe and Combe, there's Yogu's here. It's like

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Speaker 1: a five minute drive to Peach's Plartes where I do palats.

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Speaker 1: So it's easy to get around, super super easy ground

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Speaker 1: Like even I booked Boss a massage and he's there

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Speaker 1: right now while I record this at a place called

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Speaker 1: Comma in the industrial area, and usually that would take

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Speaker 1: us about half an hour to get too from our

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Speaker 1: home fifteen minnots. I think he even said nine. It was

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Speaker 1: going to take nine minutes. So it's really easy to

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Speaker 1: get around. You could even stay in a location like

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Speaker 1: this and not have a car quite good, quite handy,

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Speaker 1: very very easy. But because obviously we live here, we

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Speaker 1: decided to make the most of this staycation and really

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Speaker 1: places we haven't been to or haven't been to in

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Speaker 1: a while. So we really have treated it like a holiday.

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Speaker 1: Boss more so than me. I get a bit anxious

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Speaker 1: if I'm not working, but he's been really good at

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Speaker 1: switching off. Like we did a pool day yesterday. So

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Speaker 1: there's a rooftop pool. There's a rooftop bar that we're

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Speaker 1: going to check out tonight. There's also a restaurant here

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Speaker 1: called Benito, right, and I took so many photos for you.

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Speaker 1: They organized that for us as part of our anniversary prezzie,

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Speaker 1: so we did. I think it's the eight course menu,

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Speaker 1: and that was like chef's kind of selection. I took

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Speaker 1: a photo of the menu for you because I've got

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Speaker 1: to talk you through this. Here we go, here's the menu.

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Speaker 1: So I think we did the five course banquet, but

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Speaker 1: then the chef threw in a few extras to make it.

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Speaker 1: They hate course banquet, but I'm gonna read the five

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Speaker 1: course banquet because that is what we got, plus a

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Speaker 1: few extras. So organic sourdough with house cultured me so butter.

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Speaker 1: We didn't get that because I'm gluten free, so they

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Speaker 1: swapped that for half a dozen oysters, which were delicious.

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Speaker 1: And then we got Byron bassed stratch of Tiler Cooper

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Speaker 1: shoot tomatoes, onion jam basil, the vincotto. Amazing. That was

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Speaker 1: really yummy Cooper Shoot tomatoes like locally grown tomatoes are

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Speaker 1: so so so good puff rice. Then next one was

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Speaker 1: puff rice yu Zoo custard, souveed egg, parmesan and asparagus.

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Speaker 1: Really yummy. Everything I'm saying is gluten free because they

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Speaker 1: raw kingfish tay pesto kefe lime orange coconut. That was

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Speaker 1: farm Dark rainbow charred oyster sauce, crispish lots. That was

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Speaker 1: so they got us the Logolo squid Cooper Shuit, tomato

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Speaker 1: I loved that. And then we got fremantle octopus, pecuilio salsa,

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Speaker 1: And then for dessert, I didn't take a photo all

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Speaker 1: give you a full guide to Byron Bay if you

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Speaker 1: took me for dinner on our first night to a

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Speaker 1: place called Smoking Camel. It's where the old old light

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Speaker 1: got a yummy glass of oh no, not peanut. I

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Speaker 1: I don't know my wines. It was a red wine

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Speaker 1: that was really yummy. We went to top Shop for

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Speaker 1: that Asai bollet top Shop, ask for I get the

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Speaker 1: ask for it with gluten free granola and macadamia butter,

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Speaker 1: of course we had to have a ginger Nectar, which

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Speaker 1: much I love Woods in the Woods banana bread, which

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Speaker 1: a cold piece of banana loaf essentially in glad Rup.

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Speaker 1: Like there's a kini loaf, even their pumpkin loaf. It's

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Speaker 1: Whereas we kind of like add all the bells and

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Speaker 1: Life for lunch today. I got the special, which was

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Speaker 1: like this egg sweet potato kind of Spanish omeleard thing,

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Speaker 1: it is the same branding. I don't know if it's

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Speaker 1: and I'd get these pancakes. They have a gluten free

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Speaker 1: It's got like a coconut ice cream with a passion

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Speaker 1: shared a Strawberry Dreams smoothie, which kind of felt very

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Speaker 1: This was more strawberry banana vibes, but yummy, really really yummy,

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Speaker 1: their famous raw vegan caramel slice, which I've had many

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Speaker 1: so such a good treat, so yummy. Another thing that

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Speaker 1: the water is Mount Warning Spring. It's an amazing brand.

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Speaker 1: If you ever see Mount Warning Spring water. Fun fact,

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Speaker 1: it's really yummy spring water. So anyway, just an interesting

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Speaker 1: I think we're going out for tacos tonight. I think

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Speaker 1: then we're having mates over and having a few drinks

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Speaker 1: you can still go to the rooftop bar. I think,

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Speaker 1: obviously you need to go to the pool and stuff.

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Speaker 1: You need to be staying here, and then tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 1: My goal is before we check out, I said to Matt,

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Speaker 1: just go for because it's really close to Main Beach.

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Speaker 1: We've been walking to Main Beach a bit. We haven't

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Speaker 1: just wear our slides to Main Beach, pop our feet

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Speaker 1: And it's like, yeah, of course. So that's tomorrow morning

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Speaker 1: Mega love to you, and I hope you enjoyed this

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Speaker 1: They're brand spanky new check them out. Big love to

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