However I’m now back in front of the computer and am ready to recommend a couple of unforgettable watering holes from the land down under and yet more good and bad boozers from Edinburgh.
Seals – Maroubra, Sydney
This really is the premier attraction in Maroubra if not Sydney itself! An RSL (or social club) situated just across the road from Maroubra beach, this is the place for all your eating/drinking/entertainment needs.
You can rock up with $5 (£2.99) and get a hot meal at lunchtime at their canteen. The meal may not be 5 star cuisine (or a Winston’s pie), some may even say its hard to tell the difference between the fish and the chicken meals they are so badly cooked - but what can you expect for $5! All I can say is I enjoyed it. Should you want to, you can then work off lunch in the gym, or down a few schooners at the bar and hit the pokies.
In the evenings you pay an extra 50 cents for your evening meal (which is exactly the same as the food on offer at lunch time). However for that extra 50 cents you get entertainment; in the form of a live band playing classic tunes such as Dire Straits Sultans of Swing, and the meat raffle held on Thursday nights. This really is a quality night out and I’d totally recommend it - forget the Opera House bar, get yourself to Seals! The only downer on the evening was having to endure the Aussie piss which passes for beer.
Churchills (Anzac Parade Kingsford, Sydney)
