Month: November 2007
Return to the Pickle Slicer Venue
Our final nights on our trip to Broken Hill, were spent at Halls Gap in the same cottages in which we stayed with Mary, Rob, Junene, Ken, Maureen & Dennis about 11 years ago. It was at the Kookaburra Restaurant in Halls Gap that I am accused (somewhat undeservedly, I think) of emptying the restaurant […]
Read MorePatriotic Peterborough
On our trip from Broken Hill to Adelaide today, we deviated off the highway for a few kilometres to visit the town of Peterborough – actually it just arrived on the GPS just in time for coffee. This town must take the award for being the patriotic capital of Australia. This fact became instantly clear […]
Read MoreTo The Outback Mining City of Broken Hill
Saturday November 3 saw us taking advantage of the forthcoming Melbourne Cup Week to travel north to Broken Hill for a few days, followed by a plan to return via Adelaide. It was raining as we left home – which we didn’t mind as this weekend was only the occasion of the second major downpour […]
Read MoreBack To The Army
Over the weekend of October 21 & 22 2207, (and along with a few other Vietnam Veterans) I attended a two day celebration of my old army unit as it began to close down its operations at Moorebank NSW and prepared to move to Amberley in QLD. It was an interesting weekend and it bought […]
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