Australia Day

A long time ago, on 26th January, the ‘First Fleet’ with the English first prisoners arrived at Sydney. This is still an annual celebration. We decided to spend this day with locals in a small village. So first up to York for the traditional ‘free breakfast’. York turned out to be a very nice village indeed and the sausage/egg/bacon sandwich was exceptionally good. After that of course, we inspected the local prison and did a miniature tour around the village, where there is a lot of basically ‘nothing’.

Next we headed for an, if possible, even smaller village: Greenhills (population 10?), two farms and a pub/hotel. This was apparently the place to be: the yearly performance of 'Bush Balladeer Buzzer' commenced from noon and lasted till late. We’re chatting with all the 'locals' (and Buzzer) – it was a busy party (no, really!), struggling out of the pub at midnight, straight into our little tent that we had set up in the back yard.

Back in Perth we treated ourselves to a couple of nights in a hotel … which turned out to be not a bad idea given the heatwave (42C daytime, 24C at night).