Home from Kyneton
Published 1 year, 2 months ago in My life.Ahhh, a week away does wonders. My family goes up to Kyneton every year for a week of relaxing. It’s a lovely town, complete with the Country Cob bakery - the best bakery of all time. We did heaps of bushwalking, eating, drinking, swimming, shopping and we went to Bendigo for a day.
We went on a tour of the Joss House in Bendigo, which I found out is a Chinese temple. It was a good tour, and very interesting, but I was kinda disppointed, because I’d hoped it’d be an old opium den. Awww.
Despite the good time had by all, it’s great to be back in the land of suburbia and internet… apart from how the water tastes here… I never realised our water tasted so much like old books until I’d been drinking Kyneton water for a week.
Anyway, apologies for this self-indulgent blog-like post… just wanted to let Nooksters know I’m back and that Kyneton is awesome. If you’re ever there, make sure to try a fruit flan from the Country Cob bakery… they’re delicious on levels you may not have known possible.
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I’d wondered why you were so silent. Welcome back you were missed !!!!
I love Bendigo and that whole area. I also love the chinese museum, it is so amazing to read those letters, and think how brave those White woman were to marry chinese guys and stick up for them etc. But they made them tough in those days. The easter parade is beautiful up there, the chinese museum puts on a big show and the dragon seems to go for miles.
Kyneton of course is just as beautiful. I used to have artwork in a gallery at Carlsruhe, and I just love the scenerey up there.
Hi ya lady c welcome back, glad you had a nice break. Lots of rellies, (mum included) live or have lived up around those parts for a few generations and it is a great neck of the woods.
Isn’t it a strange feeling how just a week away from a familiar environment leaves a person feeling so refreshed. Interesting what you’ve commented on about our water….with all the ads out of Africa showing dirty brown sludge that children, bath, wee, drink…I am grateful for even our water tasting like dirty old books…even more so, with the drought, that we have water.
I live compulsorily in Bendigo for two long years and what I remember about it, is the cold!…my child’s hand were constantly a purplish blue in winter and I was always chilled.
Your comments make me want to detour off the freeway to Kyneton to try out their bakery which sounds like the Bright one…..I love the photo of the Australian bush with those gum trees just inviting one to walk among them….
And please don’t apologise for sharing what obviously was a very refreshing and welcoming change to your year….but welcome back to the Nook regardless.
ditto
I’m jealous
You sound so relaxed and “holiday’ed” I want one too!! Welcome back.
…oh lady c u started something without really understanding why. i know it well since early child hood when in the old country the whole family was going for a month long holiday in the bush, or the countryside, or the beach, or the mountains.
i still appreciate similar settings with all my senses: the clean aromatic air when breathing in and out of course; the cold refreshing water when tasting; the colourful and aromatic flora when sighting and observing; the rough and smooth and prickly texture of living or dead organic matter when touching; and the different and fantastic sounds of night or day of wind mixed with some extraordinary fauna.
i love nature in all its variety and glory. when i observe nature my body, soul and mind are at peace. the wonder of our world exhilarate my senses and then i know it’s worth while to live and enjoy all the beautiful things in life here and now. nature is beautiful regardless of how we perceive it or portray it. and the wonder of wonders is how nature recovers and rejuvenates from man made or natural disasters.
i remember my first oz holiday as a young adult in launching place only for two weeks, not a month. camping in a tent at a lovely spot next to yarra river. we all had good fun and when we meet now we still recall and remember the friendship and the good feelings and the vivid experiences that launching place has engendered in us all.
in the old country whenever someone got sick the doctors prescribed a month long sanatorium, so that the body and soul heals. they are still there and as popular as ever. europeans have started a sanatorium in healesville - “Seventh Day Adventists moved here from Melbourne in 1904. They set up a printing works in 1906, a sanatorium and hospital in 1910 and a health food factory in 1923.” - note the name healesville, a place of healing, not far from launching place.
ozland does not have many sanatoria. but then if u engage all your senses the whole continent is just one big sanatorium.
NOOKERS, THAT IS WHAT COMMON SENSE MEANS - ENGAGING IN A COMMON WAY ALL YOUR SENSES. THE BODY AND SOUL WILL THANK U AND HEAL U
Thanks for the welcomes back everyone!
Winnierose - We didn’t make it to the Chinese museum… well, we did, but it was $6 entry and we’d already been to the Joss House, so maybe next year.
Marywalsh - Hehe… I know the water here is great, and we’re lucky - also, I’ve stopped noticing the old books taste. I guess the water tastes different everywhere.
Theyoungatheart - Hmmm, I always thought Sanatorium meant mental hospital… but yeah, you’re right, everywhere is like a big health resort… I think people could go for a holiday anywhere (even suburbia or the city) here, and as long as they’re not working or worrying, it will do them good since there’s beautiful scenery, events and things to do everywhere.
It does get cold at night in Kyneton (trust me, I was there for all of Lady C’s holiday!) but here are two facts:
1. The children’s playground at the resort is much more fun at nighttime.
2. Nighttime is much less cold when you’ve imbibed substantial quantities of vodka.
It WAS a great holiday!! And Chaos forgot to mention the Kyneton RSL club - if you’re not all too stuffed from bakery food, it’s a VERY cheap, lovely place to eat.
nebula, what were you doing on the swing having “fun” in the dark?? well at least you had good company!…well lady chaos, you certainly hit a nerve of down memory lane for youngatheart….. So many of us in Melbourne enjoyed your holiday in Kyneton!
Heh… ahhh, the playground vodka nighttime. I still have the scraped knee to prove I tried to climb the crow’s nest.
Little town of Maldon is worth a look, tres historic. And these days they have a steam train that does a round trip to Castlemaine, takes a few hours, great fun.