For those familiar with Neville Shute’s work you’d know that he wrote A Town Called Alice, which by the way I have not read yet. But I suspect that the Alice Springs he wrote about was quite different from the modern Alice Springs that I have just visited recently. So I guess it’s only apt…
Category: Travel
Library Visit 2021 – Bridgewater Library
I came across this library by accident. Bridgewater is a rural township on the Calder Highway 35 km north-west of Bendigo. After we camped at the Bridgewater Recreation Reserve we came to town to get some drinking water for the caravan. The drinking tap was next to the memorial hall which also housed the public…
Library Visit 2021 – Bendigo Library
This was the first library I visited during our road trip last year. It was July 2021 at the height of the COVID pandemic so the entrance of the library was ‘manned’ with a library staff making sure that we signed in, sanitised and masked up. Just thinking back I realised that my family and…
Library Visit 2019 – Hinchinbrook Shire Library
I came upon this library via serendipity. We stopped at the TYTO Complex in Ingham to have a look at the wetlands (where we saw a crocodile – yikes!). As I was meandering along at the complex, I stumbled upon the library! Whoa! What a great explorer I was! This was my 9th library visit…
Library Visit 2019 – Bundaberg Library
When I hear the word Bundaberg, the first things that come into my mind are normally rum and ginger beer. Is it the same with you? Well, let me erase those images from your mind and replace them with the word library instead – yes library. I was surprised to discover an amazing library space…
SMARTY SQUID 