Blowes Conservatory in Cook Park - built specially for the growing of begonias

October 23rd 2011
Sunday 23rd October – The night hadn’t been too bad - the late conversations diminished enough not to be a nuisance (eventually) although I could hear some city revellers making merry quite late on. Some kids were up and about early although we were ready to rise anyway so they didn’t really disturb us. We weren’t in any real hurry as our next destination was to be Orange – a journey o ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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Jan and Graham

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Hi and welcome to our blog. We have set out on our second great adventure in Australia, following in the footsteps of those magnificent bloggers The Wallaby Wanderers. Originally we were due to go in March and spend a few weeks with the Wanderers (daughter Sarah and son-in-law Darryl) but those plans were blown apart by the small matter of a triple heart bypass operation that Graham needed. However, all's well that ends well, Graham is fit and healthy again so we arrived in Aus on the 14th August and picked up 'PIE' the trusty Nissan Terrano that Sarah and Darryl bought last year and 'SWEE... full info

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