Amid the furore that is the last few weeks of semester with a major project and three major exams crammed within a three week period, we managed to squeeze in une petit vacance on Green Island for a few nights where the weather by all accounts is tropical all year round, the sun blinds the darkest of eyes and the fish live happily ever after in the azure. And typically like our other holidays, the idea of Green Island popped up in very casual circumstances. ‘Baby, I have a few days off around my birthday. We should go somewhere’. After finishing up on some notes for one of my legal exams I stared blankly – ‘Are you serious? I still have my exams’. Nic needed another break – with long working days and temperamental Mother Nature blowing cool wind in Sydney, he was feeling a tad miserable. ”How about Fiji, Vanuatu…. New Caledonia?’. I just couldn’t agree to anything – ”I’m sorry sweetie, exaaaaaams!’.
A few more days had passed and those tropical island websites slowly unindated the computer screen and after spending days upon days enclosed within my concrete space, typing up notes, driving for two hours in peak hour traffic to submit a major project and the gloom of delaying life just for the sake of a university degree – I had had enough too. ‘Okay, let’s go to Green Island!’. Andrew, our dear friend and neighbour had lived there a few moons ago – it was just a ferry ride from Cairns, within the country and we could come back home before my final exam. Perfect.
Chocolat Patisserie & Cafe
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