7th November 2014

7^th November 2014

Tonight we have stopped at a very mundane caravan park in Singleton. We left Canberra yesterday morning our time was up and none of were interested in extending in fact none of us really liked the place. Nancy is still crook with some sort of virus that started as a head cold and is now sitting on her chest although she is not coughing up anything (she’s even crankier than normal), and she just wants to get back to Queensland and some warmth. During our week stay in Canberra we managed to catch up with relation of Nancy’s for a BBQ lunch and that was a great afternoon. We visited the Telstra Tower, Glass Works, Portrait Gallery, National Gallery, National Museum, Old Parliament House, New Parliament House and the War Memorial twice. We obviously didn’t waste any time and appreciated what we did see but by the end of the week we were ready to move on. Personally I was disappointed with Canberra’s visual appearance, nice tree lined streets but grass on verges and in all the parks was half a metre long and looked dreadfully untidy. Our ‘Capital’ on show. Scruffy would be a good description.

From Canberra I suggested we should head back to Sydney as it was the quickest route north but I was outvoted and we headed for Bathurst (warmer???). Last night we stayed at Bathurst where I had the pleasure of checking out 40 or 50 vintage and classic motorbikes whose proud owners were enjoying a four day rally, these beautiful old machines all working and in show room condition were being rallied at different venues and they were all staying at the caravan park – it made my day. 

After a mild overnight frost, at least that’s what I told the others we set our course to head through Mudgee and on to the Golden Highway to eventually bring us out on the Pacific Hwy north of Newcastle. We drove through some very scenic countryside both before Bathurst and up through Mudgee but it was steep and slow going and by the time we got to Singleton we had gone through a tank full of fuel and driven most of the day. Nancy sheepishly admitted we should have gone directly from Canberra to Sydney so I told her not to worry I had enjoyed the scenery, just needed a bank loan to pay for the fuel. Tomorrow we will pull up somewhere on the NSW coast for a couple of days hopefully I can get some WiFi.