It’s Sunday and Steve’s birthday. We went over the border into Queensland for Sunday shopping, on the hunt for internet. No success and just too many people, so we lit out of there and took the scenic tour home, along the back roads through the Tweed River Valley where you drive along fields and fields of cane. Beautiful area. We stopped at the Information area in Murwillumbah, and the guy there suggested that we go to the Tweed Art Gallery, it was open and on our way. Now who would have thought that an Art Gallery like this would be out here. To top it off, we met a couple that live in Tweed, but are from Beverley MA. Go figure.
Well here we are mostly settled into our home for the next five months. We moved in on Monday after staying for 5 days with our friends Greg and Christine. It is always good to get to your own space, one never wants to overstay one’s welcome. Anyway, here we are, we have done our initial shopping, measured our morning or evening walks, done the necessary things at the bank for the time being, and found the bottle shop. Lucky for us, if we go through the back gate, it is only a two minute walk. We are at the moment happily trying all the Australian bottles that are under $10. No bad ones to report back on, in fact the ones that we recognize are Little Penguin, and Stump Jump.
We have now gotten internet, barely. We have a mobile broadband, like we have at home. Funny though, it only works upstairs on our balcony, and barely, but as soon as we get out of Suffolk Park, it works quite well. We seem to be in a renowned dead zone. Figures. Anyway, we do get out and check e-mail once a day, and struggle with it at home.
Wednesday Christine and Georgina took us out for coffee. If they hadn’t taken us we never would have found it. What a charming place. The menu’s look excellent, the coffee local and excellent, and the ambience couldn’t be better. It’s just off the highway in the town? Of Newrybar, across from a shop that sells “dead peoples stuff”. We haven’t been in yet, but you can be certain we will before long. Then we drove along the local roads being shown good places to stop and buy fruit and veg from roadside stands.
Yesterday was market day. We got there early, the salad greens were beautiful, well, everything was beautiful. I reckon that we can do most of our shopping there for all our food. Grog and other essentials have to be gotten elsewhere. But really, who cares. If any of you have been to our favorite farmers market in Brattleboro, this is just the same, with the same characters attending.
Today, off we went to the Nightcap Range to the Rocky Creek Dam, a park which has a big reservoir that supplies water to Ballina, Lismore, Byron and the surrounding areas. Then we were going to go back thorough Rosebank, but saw the psychedelic bus from Nimbin, so our car swerved that away. Nimbin is the “spiritual home of Aquarius”. “a blend of hippie counter-culture, artists, farming and cottage industries.” It was a true experience, I don’t think we have seen more dreads, tie dye, hemp in all its glory, in such a small area. We had lunch at the Rainbow Café, est. 1973. Oh yeah, this town was a trip. (get it?) People come from all over the world for this place to pay their respects or whatever they do. It’s an ICON! Anyway after wandering the streets and seeing the sites, we then wove our way back home.
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