Inverell

   

We originally were going to stay for 2 days but eventually stayed for 7 nights.  One of the reasons we decided to stay was the towns south of here were being bombarded with wild weather and there were lots of road closures. The town of Glen Innes looks prosperous and they have extra wide streets. There are lots of beautiful parklands and because they have had  lots of rain this season it is the greenest it has been for a long time.  Keith will get to go fossicking next time around. It has been pouring all night and the gentle MacIntyre river is now a raging rapid river.  It happened so fast overnight and we move on towards Armidale today.

Glen Innes

The weather has cooled off a lot!  Glen Innes has Australia's Standing Stones a purpose built group of rocks that show true north, south, east & west and the winter and summer soltice.  The stones are a direct link between Glen Innes and Scotland.  They have a lot of Scottish history and tradition - they call Glen Inne region the Celtic Country.
The weekend after we were there they were hosting the Beardies festival. It is a local celebration of spring and gets its name from two of their early pioneers who had long flowing beards and helped new settlers in the 1840's.

Tenterfield

We spent 8 nights in Tenterfield at the Showgrounds.  We were there with 3 other ladies who were travelling seperately in their own motorhomes and enjoyed our time there.  We went to the Melbourne Cup Lunch at the Tenterfield Bowling Club and arranged to go to the Wine Blending Dinner as part of the Tenterfield Food & Wine Festival.  The wine blending  was a new thing for us and after the blending we got to bottle our wine and take it home.  The food for dinner was great and we wondered how they could make their money - it was really good value for money.
The Food and Wine show was on Saturday the 6th November from 10am until 4pm.  It was held in the RSL hall and it was all under cover.  This was the first time we had been to a Food and Wine Festival under cover usually they are outside. The town was small and the locals were telling us that the town was hurting so they have decided to concentrate on Tourism in an effort to get the town up and running again.

Stanthorpe

We stayed at the Top of the Town caravan park about 3 kilometres out of town. These walks are getting easier now and we are still are enjoying them. Stanthorpe is renowned for its apples and fresh fruit stalls. We visited a cheese factory and an enormous store and restaurant called Vincenzo's.  We are all stocked up on fresh fruit and cheese - wonderful!!!!!!!!