La Dolce Vita

We live in a suburb in Sydney best known as "Little Italy". If one should live in Sydney and inner-west to be precise, Leichhardt should be the place. It has everything a little community needs, perhaps even more. Every year round about this time, Leichhardt community will hold an annual event called "Norton Street Italian Festa". Norton Street is the main street in Leichhardt and is most busy on weekends. We don't really follow the events and happenings in Leichhardt as we are too busy working and on weekends, our ideal activity is to stay at home apart from doing grocery shopping. We were on our way to the marketplace but to our surprise, all roads were blocked. Immediately it dawned upon us that it's that time of the year again.

We headed back home to secure our street parking before any car comes along and park on our spot. Then we took a stroll to the park and then the street to check out the festival. It was a great day for such festa but boy, the heat took a toll on me after just 10 minutes. I am never fond of direct heat from the sun. There were stalls of all sorts set up along the streets. There were children's activities in the park. There were throngs and throngs of people wandering the street and feasting on italian food, wine, cheese and etc. It's amazing how people seem to be enjoying themselves still and not seem to have much care about the financial crisis hitting the world. People still spend and continue with their lifestyle as usual. As for us, the 'kiamsiapness' in us still prevail, we have to save money and hope others (who are not affected) spend to help boost the economy. Hence, we didn't have any urge to spend on anything.

Oh did I mention we had to get some groceries, which was our initial plan. So we walked all the way to Coles and got us some essentials like eggs, bread, toilet rolls, etc. That was the only thing we spent on. Had italian sausage for lunch (notice the singular word for sausage, that's because we shared one!) before long and came straight back to our home, sweet home.

Managed to take some shots of the event and I was just thinking, we live in the perfect suburb, perfect location, perfect community, perfect food! What a life!

A view of the park from our balcony.

That's Norton Street right at the end of the road.

They even have an SIA booth promoting A380!

Actually there was a MAS booth nearby, but I didn't bother taking a photo of it.

That's my gym!

She's a real lady!

There's live music, too! It was jazz by the way.

After grocery shopping and on the way home. Thankfully we didn't have the car with us, so that limited us to buying only what we needed!

Big Elf queuing up for sausage roll.