Some time ago I found an old wiro notebook in a drawer. A scruffy wiro bound notebook with a photo of 2 men in a kayak with a bear on the front cover. In that notebook I found terrible sketches drawn in pencil made while travelling in 1991. One sketch leapt out at me. It was a rough pencil sketch of Mt Ararat from a backpacking trip to eastern Turkey. The sketch really surprised me – it was a very basic pencil sketch, drawn using a .5mm technical pencil on a cheap notepad. The sketch is just black and white… To my surprise the sounds and smells of the day came flooding back. Meeting some Kurdish goat herders and their flock near the base of Mt Ararat, about 10km from the Iranian border on a bright sunny but cool, alpine day. Along with memories of driving across the mountain steppe in an old Renault 19 and the smells of chai and coffee in a Doğubayazıt pasta solunu. It all came back come flooding back! Why did it evoke such vivid memories? I’m not really sure to be honest. Maybe t...
After a very enjoyable ride with the kids around Narrow Neck, Cheltenham and Devonport we settled in for Huevos Rancheros at the excellent Five Loaves cafe on Church Street. It's well away from the mad cafe strip and has lots of space, bike racks and the area has loads of sketchable character — and sketchable food — but I just don't have the patience for food sketching!
Here's a shot of the Rancheros, they're not quite like what you'd get in Mexico but delicious anyway, the tortilla (would be corn in mexico) was stuffed with salsa fresca and avocado, with black beans, nice!
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