Bondi Junction
p: 02 9389 9950
e: veda@veda.net.au
5.30pm - late
7 nights
I look back on my time at Curlewis Street, Bondi with fondness.
Back then the ‘beautiful people’ were anyone who didn’t regularly put needle to arm.
Swimming in summer inevitably lead to an encounter with the ‘Bondi Cigar’; and in winter it became a ghost town, where the ever present junkies & grotty, old buildings just added to its abundant charm.
It was rough and scary, but thrilling at the same time.
Who can forget late nights drinking at the Bondi Tram; the blood splattered walls of the pool room at the Bondi Hotel and the freaky goings on at the legendary Astra Hotel….those were the days indeed, my friends.
There was no Icebergs, no North Bondi Italian. Fine dining was a counter lunch of meatloaf and 'deb' at the Bondi Hotel; or a dodgy pie from The Flying Pieman (rumour had it they contained cat food).
I miss the ‘old’ Bondi.
Buggles and I very rarely return to Bondi these days. We have made the trip for Icebergs, the occasional breakfast at Blue/Orange, the odd pizza & gelato at Pompei’s and the fantastic tempura vegetables & chips at Mongers.
We visit Bondi Junction even more rarely, usually just for a Gold Class session at the Event Cinemas.
So it is odd, that this Monday night, finds us standing outside Veda on Bronte Road.
