We chose to stay in the Fairfield area because it was on the way to the Blue Mountains – our next stop – but more importantly it was the home of La Paula, also known as Paula Continental Cakes – which is in fact a Chilean cafe where you can get deep fried empanadas done in the Chilean style, as well as a few other Chilean specialities. Fairfield is also the home of La Torre – where you can get Argentinian cakes and other stuff, and also there is a Latin American supermarket there. This stuff is all there because back in the day Fairfield was home to a substantial Latin American community.

Nowadays it is home to a large Iraqi community, and so as a bonus we got to eat lots of delicious Iraqi bread, as well as the usual trips to the Latin American places (yes, we have been there a few times before when we lived in Sydney).

We stayed in a pub/hotel which included a free schooner, so we took advantage of that offer. Besides eating Chilean food and Iraqi bread we also managed to get ourselves Typhoid vaccinations for our upcoming trip overseas.