I've been to Beach House several times over the years - dinners, lunches, engagement parties, weddings, Christmas parties etc, but I'd never stopped in for just a coffee before.
I was being a tourist in my hometown and lazily wandering around Eastern Beach and around the Promenade taking photos when I started to crave a coffee. It was just before the lunch rush so there weren't too many people around. The weather was perfect so I sat outside under an umbrella. I ordered a latte and a jelly slice. The order arrived quickly and it was a perfect way to stop and take a break. The coffee in Australia is my favorite and the jelly slice was cool and tart. I loved looking out to the water and thinking back on all the memories I've had here - being a little girl swimming in the childrens pool, playing on the swings, rolling down the hills, to later being a teenager jumping off the tower and hanging out with friends in the water waiting for a cool change to blow through with the rest of the town, to now being an adult and only being able to visit every few years. The Beach House is wrapped up in all of those memories too. read more