Gismo Queen and her King

Day 3 - Narrandera to Narrabri - Tuesday 30th April

From one NAR spelled place to another - must be because I was born in one.... (Nar Nar Goon North). 655km of driving today and not much else.

The weather forecast for Narrandera was for 26C and for Narrabri was 28C so we broke out the shorts but soon regretted it as the weather en route was cool and often rainy, hovering around 16C and dipping to 13C. Tassie weather, as the cheerful manager at the Mid City Motor Inn here in Narrabri told me. He did work in Launnie for 19 months so he knows a little about our weather.

Our morning tea stop was in West Wyalong - a town we have frequented a lot in recent years. For lunch, we pushed through to Dubbo, to our favourite Chinese winemaker at Red Earth Vineyard just south of Dubbo. His wine is OK but the family's dumplings are worth the stop. We stopped there up and back last December because we like them so much. He remembers us every time we come in too! For our new caravanning friends reading this, they take campers out the back too - cheaper than anything else in Dubbo!

We arrived in Narrabri just on dusk and good thing I had booked this morning because as of this evening, there was not one motel room to be had in the town. And it is a decent sized town too! Their accommodation occupancy figures must be high (tourism speak).

Cheap and cheerful soup for dinner in our room because of our big and late lunch and then a rest.

posted by Tracey @ 7:45 pm