Month: March 2020
We Have Survived Our First Week of Self Exile
Well, we have had a week since we returned home from our little jaunt around Victoria’s art silos and we are now hibernating at home because of the Corona Virus. I think we have survived rather well this week and I have a few random observations about my experience. I’m missing my family. We have […]
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Our Last Day on the Silo Art Trail
Our motel at Sea Lake was built a good number of years ago but was quite clean and comfortable. Every door had a different colour – ours was the lemon yellow one. We were out and about by 9.00 am this morning and found something for breakfast in the only cafe in town that was […]
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We Are Still Chasing Silos
Today, we spent all morning transitioning from the area around north-central Victoria to another area in the north-west of the state where the Silo Art Trail originally began. Before we left Rochester, we stopped off at a laneway beside the pub where there is a mural honouring the Iddles family. Ron Iddles, one of the […]
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More Public Art For Us to See
Benalla is fast becoming recognised as Australia’s leading street art destination. It hosts an incredible variety of murals created by street artists at the top of their game from around the world. We drove around the streets of the city this morning to find some of them before leaving town. We then travelled west across […]
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Northern Victorian Silo Art
Today, we drove north from Benalla to visit four towns north along the Oaklands railway line – a freight-only line in north-eastern Victoria. This line runs from Benalla across the Victoria-New South Wales border to the town of Oaklands in New South Wales. It carries seasonal grain traffic. Every town in the grain growing areas […]
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Back to the Silo Art Trail
The Covid-19 virus is impacting the lives of everyone in Victoria and Australia. We had planned a trip to Tasmania this week but we weren’t quite comfortable enough to head off to an island state where if anything serious happened, we could be stuck for a few weeks and unable to get home. We don’t […]
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