The short road to Sydney – out and about in Surry Hills and Bowral

Continuing the series of posts about places we've visited and reviewed on Google Maps, but which have never been posted to this blog, my next post is about Sydney and the Southern Highlands. Given Canberra is increasingly moving closer to Sydney – it used to take four and a half hours to drive to Sydney and it’s now down to three hours, door to door, we have developed a habit of recent decades of driving to Sydney for wild times (more recently, mild times), followed by a wind down in the Southern Highlands on the way home. This means that posts about both places often sit well together, even of the visits are always at the same time.

Franquette Creperie, Bowral June 2025
Franquette Creperie is a gem of a place in the main street of Bowral. It describes itself as a contemporary creperie and it is. On a cold winter night we had a quiet corner. It worked well for our party of two, but it is obviously also a huge hit with family groups – and you can see why.

Pulled pork with cheese, potatoes and onions in a mustard sauce

We had two galettes - the duck breast with orange and the pulled pork with cheese, potatoes and onions in a mustard sauce (I won't try to capture the French letters on this keyboard). Wednesday night was a special, so we followed with crepe suzette (more orange, but can there ever be too much orange?).