Friday, July 05, 2019

Molong to Canberra - Friday 5 July 2019

Nothing to pack up this morning so it was a relaxed travel day morning- we didn't even get out of bed until 8:20am! And were still on the road by 9:30am! Molong is a nice little town, and this was a great campsite so we'll put this on the list to return to.


Heading south, we arrived in Cowra for elevenses. Cowra is almost famous for its military camps - one of which went on to become a prisoner of war camp (where a large group of Japanese prisoners even staged an escape - it took the authorities 12 days to round up all the prisoners) and the other turned into a migrant camp. The prisoner of war camp was dismantled in 1947 and the migrant camp housed 17,000 new Australians between 1949 and 1956. Five of those migants were my mother and her family. So it was very cool to have elevenses where Mum would have played as a 10 year old girl. I have photos of Mum playing with her cousin there - today there are only foundations left.
After this link to my family history, experienced with coffee and banana muffins - which were most sought after: Before Cowra, Jude radioed us to ask whether we wanted elevenses in a cafe or in the van. Greg replied, saying we had muffins (defrosted), to which a truckie somewhere on the road near us piped up saying "oooh, muffins would be nice" - we headed towards Boorowa, Yass and then Canberra. Lunch was had in the vans just before Yass, where Jude followed my example of an earlier campsite when I took a rubbish bag out to pick up discared rubbish from previous inconsiderate people.


We arrived into Canberra to drizzle and a cold wind and got ourselves set up at the Exhibition Park In Canberra (EPIC). We certainly timed it well, as the rain got heavier and lots more vans rolled in. The sun peeked oout occasionally so we had a cup of tea outside before the weather sent Greg inside and Neill, Jude and I out for a walk. There's a dog show on here this weekend so there are zillions of dog trailers and people here for that.


Dinner was in Cafe Bushtracker tonight so I prepared out antipasto platter for pre-dinner drinks and we had a lovely meal inside. Home for a good, warm night's sleep before our weekend in Canberra.

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