Day 26 Monday 6/7/20 Moonee Beach to Lawrence, sunny 19 A cool clear morning peppered with the excitement of moving on. We veer off the highway to Grafton which seems to totally flummox Gabbi Garmin as Grafton is no longer … Continue reading Banned on the Run, Day 26 – Lawrence
Day 23 Saturday 14/3/20 Colac Colac, sunny 22 It’ a very cool morning so we stay inside taking things easy. We all do a bit of washing, Elle hangs hers on the cow paddock fence. The Prado van bursts a … Continue reading The Empty Esky Tour, Day 23 – Colac Colac
Day 6, Wednesday 26/2/20 Broken Creek, cloudy 24 There are a few more showers overnight and it is a little cooler. The morning is washed clean and bright. The cockies wheel and screech. It’s time to clean off the dust … Continue reading The Empty Esky Tour, Day 6 – Broken Creek
You can’t miss the Devenish Pub when you visit the painted silos because there’s a mouth watering sign telling you that scones, jam and cream are available at the pub behind you. And the hosts are as welcoming as their … Continue reading The Empty Esky Tour, Day 5 – Devenish Hotel
Sep 2017, Benalla, Vic The North Eastern ‘Northy’ Hotel in Benalla is a perfect spot for a meal. We happily stumbled upon it while looking for a venue for a club function. Smart and sophisticated we had a delicious lunch … Continue reading The Northy
I was pleased to read recently that the Mirrool Pub is back in business and under new management. For the ‘pub stay’ caravanner using the Newell Highway this is great news because the friendly hamlet of Mirrool provides spotless and modern bathrooms (toilets and showers) along with power and water for a small fee. Across the road is the grand old Royal Hotel from which, as legend has it, is where AFL star Billy Brownless once kicked a footy over the grain silos. For those grey nomads making the trek north in winter there’s a big open fireplace in the … Continue reading Let’s raise a glass to the Mirrool pub
During what a caravanning friend of mine refers to as ‘the quiet time’ I’ve been playing with a rather cute app called Pin365 and logging all the pubs that we’ve had a beer in on our caravanning adventures. Just the caravanning trips, not the casual Sunday lunches around Melbourne and not the places that we’ve visited by ships and planes and without our van Priscilla. Of course, the trouble with computers and statistics is that they always seem to disagree with the old ‘gut feel’ method. Thus, in this enlightened state two things have become blindingly obvious, firstly there are … Continue reading An app addiction
Jan 2020, Portsea, Vic During my working life, on perfect summer days I was often heard to be mumbling “Wouldn’t it be nice to be sitting on the lawn of the Portsea Pub today?”. On the day that I retired, sitting at a waterfront pub the realisation hit me, hey we can go to any waterfront pub in the country now. Of course, it wasn’t long before we discovered the appeal of inland pubs and then we decided that we shouldn’t pass a pretty pub without having a beer. God, there are a lot of pubs in this country. Continue reading The Portsea Pub
Nov 2019, Lake Tyers Beach, Vic Sometimes you just want to kick yourself, don’t you? You hear somebody raving about something that is almost in your backyard and you’ve driven past countless times and never been there, never seen it. … Continue reading Lake Tyers Beach
Nov 2019, Heyfield, Vic The Railway Hotel is only a few blocks away from our camp, there’s a dog on the veranda and the timber cutting themed bistro is cool and welcoming. The ‘Seniors meals’ are huge and there’s no … Continue reading Snippets of Heyfield & the Railway Hotel
