Hello Local Guides Connect!
Today, a few of Sydney’s Local Guides came together to spend some time eating some great food and getting to know one another via @TimothyVdp 's event. Many thanks for hosting yet another meetup for the love of burgers and real food. Our first meet-up was only three weeks ago, how keen! Feel free to read the recap. Anywho, this one technically wasn’t a burger crawl. We made our way to Ze Pickle, Surry Hills and THAT was the only burger joint we went to, ahah! Let’s start shall we?
Saturday 8th July 2017 (Burger Food Crawl? Meetup)
2:00pm. Still on the train and running a little late. Darn trackwork! It was around 2:13pm when I had first walked into Ze Pickle. Looking around, the waitress asked how many were to be seated, but then I just said that I was “waiting for a mate”. Looked around for a bit but I didn’t notice anyone yet. I walked outside for a bit, then returned back to Ze Pickle and all of a sudden I saw @TimothyVdp , @miguelmartin and about twelve other people, with a plate of these loaded fries shared amongst all of them!
Woah, talk about a huge turnout!
Our group was a mixed bag. Some attendees were Tim’s workmates or friends. The Local Guides I knew were @TimothyVdp , @miguelmartin , Nizar Noor and myself. Others found the event through meetup.com or were curious by marking their interest on the created Facebook event. But our group had a few common interests and shared hobbies that in mind that ignited fuel in our conversations:
- The use of drones in Sydney according to CASA laws and regulations. There is an application called Where Can I Fly? which is a government-developed application that shows where you can fly copters and drones around.
- YouTube, vlogging and the whole process in-between.
- The tech community of start-ups and offices: Fishburners.
After we had finished our burgers the following words came out of Tim’s mouth, that he simply couldn’t have any more! One burger, with a bit of fries and that pretty much concluded the burger crawl before it even started ahah! But that’s alright, you’ll be on a burger diet for a while. It was great meeting some like-minded, goal-oriented people who bounced off ideas and information to one another and also encouraged each other.
Dessert came after a bit of a hill’s walk upwards to Gelato Messina (I mean really, everyone has a separate stomach for dessert!) and as some of us congregated on the storefront’s sidewalk, it eventually became time for us to head on off our ways. Of course, not without a little bit of a group photo!
Afterwards I had sushi and miso soup at this newly opened Japanese restaurant down the road, but since that isn’t part of the meet-up I’m not uploading those pictures. I had a blast meeting new people, seeing familiar faces and all the positive inspiration energy that arose from today being with a group of passionate people, videographers, photographers, tech wizzies, comedians and local guides alike.
Good luck Tim on your travels back to the motherland, so many kudos to you for organising these! Looks like we won’t be having another food crawl for a while, but now that I’ve discovered meetup.com thanks to you, my journeys of the love of good food will still continue!
Also we missed you @Justine2807 and other Sydney Local Guides, but of course there is always time for food o’clock!
Adios, local guides!
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