Saturday, 7 May
It wasn’t that long after dinner when Hughesy found himself safely tucked away in the sub-doona warmth pushing up Zs, and well after sunrise when I made my way gingerly into the new day.
While the night’s accommodation would have been quite satisfactory in the summer months, and there wasn’t much wrong with the place in any case, there was a distinct lack of insulation that meant we were heavily dependent on the heater in the cabin’s living room, and we weren’t inclined to wander far from the warmth as we gathered the goods and chattels and prepared to head into Glen Innes
for breakfast.
The day’s game plan involved a wander around downtown Glen Innes after breakfast, followed by the drive through Tenterfield, Stanthorpe, Warwick and Cunningham’s Gap en route to the Ex-Neighbours and Springfield Lakes. First stop, as usual, was the Visitor Centre, where we found a kilted guide preparing t accompany a your bus to the local equivalent of Stonehenge.
Given rumours of a particularly outstanding Indian eatery in the vicinity, a substantial breakfast followed by minimal action on the lunch front before what threatened to be a substantial evening meal seemed the way to go, and we found Cuisine Cafe the ideal avenue to stock up on sustenance to keep us going through the day. With the circuit of Grey Street’s historic buildings and streetscape out of the way it was back to the Visitor Centre to retrieve the car and off up the nearby hill where the Australian Standing Stones were set up as a Bicentenary national monument to honour Glen Innes's Celtic heritage. They’re an impressive sight and had attracted their fair share of visitors while Madam snapped away. More...
