Day 15 Saturday 28/6/2025, Murwillumbah, NSW, cool with misty rain 12 – 18 Woody slipped into town this morning and picked up some nice flaky pain au chocolat from Ben’s Patisserie for our breakfast. Ooh, they are good. Showgrounds caretakers … Continue reading A Cool Coast – Tiny Kisses and Showgrounds
Day 13 Thursday 26/6/2025 Murbah, sunny 8 – 17 (Geez that’s not warm) This morning I manage to grab a sleep-in while Woody curses his tablet for not downloading the newspaper. The coffee grinder is on the blink, and we … Continue reading A Cool Coast – Colour & Style
Day 10 Monday 23/6/2025, Murwillumbah, NSW, 12 – 20 misty rain With a week’s stay booked at Murwillumbah showgrounds, we have the chance of a relaxing morning, except poor Woody wore himself out tramping up and down the hills looking … Continue reading A Cool Coast – Sugar it’s a volcano
Day 9 Sunday 22/6/2025 Bellingen to Murwillumbah (Murbah to the locals), 10 – 21 degrees Well so much for the music festival last night, all we could hear was one solitary guitar if we listened hard. During breakfast we see … Continue reading A Cool Coast – Rolling in to Murbah
Murwillumbah, NSW If you’re visiting Queensland’s Gold Coast and don’t want to pay those high tourist accommodation charges, Murwillumbah Showgrounds is an excellent place to stay. It is a short easy drive up the freeway to Tweed Heads and the … Continue reading Confessions of a Grey Nomad – The Places We Love – North Coast & Hinterland NSW
Day 34 Sunday 11/6/2023 Murwillumbah, sunny 9 – 22 Another beautiful morning. The flat tropical grass is heavy with dew each morning but quickly dries. Butcher birds sing. Last week the forecast for this area was daily rain, but apart … Continue reading Yackety Yack, Day 34 – Tum Bull Gum?
Day 33 Saturday 10/6/2023, sunny 7 – 21 The crystal, craft & jewellery festival is in full swing and I wander over expecting to see opals and gemstones like we see out in the gem fields. I guess I didn’t … Continue reading Yackety Yack, Day 33 – Clairvoyance & a Dash of Culture
Day 32 Friday 9/6/2023 Murwillumbah, sunny 10 – 23 Woody shops early for today’s lunch. We have a lazy morning. The weather is perfect, sunny, and no breeze. We can almost see the cane growing, a crystal, craft & jewellery show is setting up on the other side of the Showgrounds. Woody the Elder and The Very Good Golfer arrive for lunch, and we set the table out on the lawn in the shade of Elle’s motor home. Woody cooks Elle’s recipe for potato and egg pies in the 2 pie makers (no. we don’t carry two, Elle’s and ours) … Continue reading Yackety Yack, Day 32 – Lunch Alfresco
Day 31 Thursday 8/6/2023 Murwillumbah, sunny 10 – 23 Woody sets up his new fridge. I guess you can say that we’ve downsized from a 48 can to a 21 can model. Cleaning gets in the way today, as it … Continue reading Yackety Yack, Day 31 – We didn’t expect the dog to get high
Day 30 Wednesday 7/6/2023 Murwillumbah, sunny 13 – 22 A bright sunny and warm morning and the local farmers market ‘Murbah’ has set up at the far end of the Showgrounds. We return with bananas, passionfruit, capsicum relish, and felafels. Wandering the stalls is enjoyable, people are breakfasting on the lawns and the crowd is colourful, from trendy to hippie. The produce is farm fresh and the backdrop is acres of green sugar cane and the deep blue of the Mt Warning range. VeeWee drives up to Southport to deliver her brother’s horse racing trophies that have been filling her … Continue reading Yackety Yack, Day 30 – Queensland
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