My last post about a container bar (see below) contained a few falsehoods.
The correct street address for the bar-in-a-box is 27-29 Tattersalls Lane. And while a phone isn’t patched into Section 8, you can enquire about this car-park pub by buzzing Maz, the co-owner, on 0422-972-656.
I can even be more precise with opening hours […]
Popeye has left the cliff top. Popeye, in fact, was never on the cliff - so just ignore the glitch the Cassowary index that tells you Popeye and Olive Oyl are standing above the Jamison Valley in Leura (NSW), in Sydney’s Blue Mountains.
Olive Oyl IS there, with a wind-gauge in her hair to avoid the […]
In a posting follow-up, Rosleigh Rose - the mother of convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby - is relinquishing her fish-and-chippery Southport on August 12. Those with an appetite for current affairs - or rock ling - can still pull by the ongoing business (see Out of the Frying Pan) but don’t expect Schapelle’s extended kin […]
Russell Drysdale had itchy feet. The painter grew up in Queensland’s sugar belt, got schooling in Geelong, farmed in Albury, cavorted in Europe, then set up a bush studio in Hill End.
It was in this ghost town north of Bathurst (NSW), that Drysdale painted his iconic stick figures playing cricket - in 1948. The […]
The Junkyard Café Flame ‘n’ Grill of Stratford (Vic) is not longer. That once distinguished diner famed for its egg-burgers and Bill Clinton’s underpants, has shut its flyscreen door for the last time.
Offbeat traveller, you’ll need to take your peculiar palate a few blocks closer to Melbourne, and graze at the Mad Cow Cafe - […]
A wine-maker near Cessnock (NSW) has dropped us a line at the website. He reports the Hunter Valley, an area noted for its alluvial soil and velvet cabernets, is not to be found beyond the back of Bourke, as falsely suggested on page 406 of the Regional Guide.
Bad news for Bacchus, I suppose. […]