Day 96 Wednesday 20th September

Just needed to add a little more to yesterday’s blog. Late in the afternoon we met our neighbours and had a rather long happy hour with them. They were retired teachers too and came from Ballarat. Peter was a retired history teacher and Jo his wife, worked in early primary and then as a Uni lecturer. Somehow we talked about cemeteries and the history you can learn from them. It was then that Jo realised that she and Peter had seen me at the Lightening Ridge cemetery. They too had been visiting the cemetery and had noticed me chatting to 2 local women about a certain baby’s grave that had a beautiful mosaic on it. They noticed Rob in the car and we all had a laugh. This morning before we left the park, we had to help Jo and Peter charge their vehicle’s battery as they had a flat battery due to leaving the car lights on all night. Once we’d help them, we drove to the famous country and western town of Tamworth.  In the afternoon we visited the information centre and the huge replica of the golden guitar. Inside the information centre were many different guitars signed by famous country and western stars like Dolly Parton, Keith Urban, Kenny Rodgers, John Williamson etc. From here we drove to Oxley Lookout, an excellent area to view Tamworth and the surrounding country. There were some excellent information boards up there and they gave a great synopsis of the history of Tamworth.








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