Monday 21st May 2012 We left our Corryong B&B hostess after a splendid breakfast, sincerely wishing her well in her somewhat uncertain future. I can see from an Internet search that the business was sold in due course, so we can only hope that her trials and tribulations are well behind her now. It was … Continue reading Following the Murray River: Corryong to Yarrawonga
Australia
Cars and Trains and Planes. So many ways to see Australia. It’s all in this section, including Sydney to Broken Hill on the government train (my most popular post) and crisscrossing Australia on the epic Indian Pacific or Ghan (both now privatised).
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Following the Murray River: Narooma to Corryong
Sunday 20th May 2012 In May of 2012, I sat my final university exam. I had been studying for two years as a part-time mature-age postgraduate student, during which time I discovered that Uni consider mature age as twenty-five, not fifty-five. (Going to Uni was a bucket list item. I didn't actually have an undergraduate … Continue reading Following the Murray River: Narooma to Corryong
Belting around Bathurst
Day 9: Thursday 14th July 2011 Millthorpe – Bathurst – Lithgow – Sydney It was just in the last few days that I was complaining to Bill that all country motels were built forty or fifty years ago, and hadn’t changed in design, except that the breakfast serving hatches had been closed up, and here … Continue reading Belting around Bathurst
GWEN WILSON, Author, aka The Reluctant Retiree 