Eat ice-cream as you stroll along the harbour and drink cocktails at the Garden Club, perched high in the city walls.
"And I can't get a word in edgeways!" In the late afternoon, we sailed back to the Amalfi harbour in time for drinks along the broad street that fronts the beach.
After discovering that the Bane, creators of a soft drink called Bubble Shock!, harbour a destructive secret, she teams up with investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith to prevent their plans.
Stretching north from Gothenburg to the Norwegian border, Bohuslän is where the Swedes go to eat their bodyweight in pickled herring and crayfish, bob about in boats and drink schnapps in pretty harbour-front bars.
Although the small walled garden of the pub is quickly filled, you are encouraged to spill out across the steps of the harbour to soak up the sun and drink in the fine views.
It was a gorgeous, hot afternoon, so a couple of drinks in a bar on Darling Harbour seemed like the best place to go to catch up.
I thought, sitting at the laminate tables, of my life-changing first writing workshops; one at a community hall that was BYO drinks, and another, in the room overlooking the harbour at Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters.
If you want to drink what the UK's most exciting craft brewers are producing – people like Harbour, Celt, Redchurch, Runaway, Moor, Blackjack – then this is the place to do it.
I, for example, do not cover my hair but dress relatively conservatively; I enjoy partying but do not drink alcohol; I talk openly about sex and mix freely with men but have always harboured a hang-up about premarital sex.
As well as being a lovely place for a drink (we recommend The Bar at the End of the Wharf) you can see a stunning view of the Harbour Bridge.
