Forgotten town
December 10th 2006 The drive to Canberra was the longest of this road trip, taking me almost 500km south. This part of the world is peppered with corking place names and I saw signs to the towns of Orange, Wee Jasper, Wombat, and Murrumbateman.
I stopped at Cowra, site of a Japanese PoW camp during World War 2 from which nearly 400 prisoners had staged a break-out. The escape and ensuing round-up left more th
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