Happy New Year to my fellow bloggers and followers. May health, love and happiness be overflowing in 2017. For my first resolution I plan on catching up with our Victorian trip blogs! I feel as if we are leaving Bendigo without having properly explained the history and cultural context of this city, but on the … Continue reading Day 5 of our Victorian Road Trip: Bendigo to Ballarat
Victoria
Home from Victoria
Bill and I have returned safe and sound from our most recent road trip, this time within Victoria. I love getting on the road and exploring the diversity of this amazing country / island-continent, but as I grow older I suspect I love returning home even more. It is just so comforting to open the … Continue reading Home from Victoria
Day 4 of our Victorian Road Trip: More of Bendigo
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
The Reluctant Retiree 