Chiltern and Rutherglen

This morning we went to the heritage listed, gold mining town of Chiltern, loved by film makers.

We went for a walk around the town and there are seven junk/second hand/vintage/antique shops.  Only the first two were open.  The town must be very busy on the weekends.

  

Later we tried for a proper walk around Rutherglen.  We missed a few buildings, as we needed to stay under shop awnings because of the heavy thunderstorm.

"tin" lane nearby

Saturday was the drive home to a windy Sydney.  One of the tiny succulents has blown out of the pot.  Geoff had set the watering system so he could turn it on over the internet, but he only needed to do it twice.

We have had a great holiday, the car went well with the bikes on the back and we went well on the bikes.  Our mechanic was concerned the bikes would lower the car’s fuel economy and we should take them off.  We wonder what he would say about the boxes of wine, the plants and…and…

We had a lovely catch up with a niece and a brother and met many nice people who were happy to chat.

We can thank God for our travels and those little “coincidences” like driving down into the Ovens Valley full of smoke from fires all around and the next day it had cleared; we didn’t get information about one of our accommodations and a neighbour was there watering the garden and could let us in.