This morning we set off for Bendigo Pottery which was first established in 1858 by a thirty-year-old Scottish settler, George Duncan Guthrie, who originally came to Sandhurst (Bendigo) to try his hand at gold-mining. According to legend, he was apprenticed at thirteen, and was prompted to leave Scotland when a promised partnership did not eventuate. In the … Continue reading Day 4 of our Victorian Road Trip: More of Bendigo
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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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Day 3 of our Victorian Road Trip: Exploring Bendigo
Source: http://www.mapsofworld.com/australia/states/victoria/ Okay, here we go with a few fast facts about Bendigo. The first is that our accommodation is extremely comfortable and commodious, but the internet connection is extremely dodgy! Okay . . . moving on . . . if I can . . . Okely, dokely. Bendigo is about two hours from the capital … Continue reading Day 3 of our Victorian Road Trip: Exploring Bendigo
Day 2 of our Victorian Road Trip: Wangaratta To Bendigo
Source: http://www.mapsofworld.com/australia/states/victoria/ About a half hour from Wangaratta, down Detour Road, there is a small town called ElDorado. A friend had tipped us off to visit here, on account of their strange tourist attraction - the final resting place of an alluvial mining dredge. Now, I am used to see photos of hopeful miners squatting on … Continue reading Day 2 of our Victorian Road Trip: Wangaratta To Bendigo
The Reluctant Retiree 