Day 12: Wednesday 6/3/24 - Inverell
A bit to do today - organise the camp site for another night, need to do wages today for work, visit National Transport Museum, visit Pioneer Village, lunch at The Union and afternoon drink at The Welder's Dog, having a holiday can be busy 😆
Not a problem to book another night at the Inverell Caravan Park ✔️
Tidy up the camp site, put some water in the car fridge, sunscreen and hats, laptop/work stuff and onto the National Transport Museum. First in the door at the museum at 9am, the Lady that greeted us was so lovely, very friendly and happy. Explain the museum to us, you are free to wander around, take photos, free tea and coffee in the cafe area with seating, no touching the cars or displays. So much to look at - cars obviously, motorbikes, model trains, memorabilia, a working train model set complete with diorama scenery. We spent a couple of hours here, not rushing and took lots of photos. ✔️
A few more pictures for you, but you get the idea. Too many photos to put them all up
After leaving the Museum, we need to take a minute off holidaying while I do some work. Found a picnic table in the park in town on the banks of the McIntyre River - not a bad temporary office and lovely park. The river walk goes from our caravan park all the way into town. ✔️
Time for lunch now, plan is to go to The Union Bar and Grill, which is in this beautiful old building. ✔️
Lunch was enjoyable and was it was pleasant sitting in the old building.
Next we were visiting the Pioneer Village, however we stopped in at the local Butcher (Lennons Butchery) because Craig couldn't help himself. Wow what a great butcher shop. We could smell the smoked bacon, so asked if it was smoked in house - answer from the owner was a resounding YES! so we had to get us some of that. I spied some Black Truffle and Parmesan sausages and Italian meatballs, which I had to buy because one of the red wines we had on board from Symphony Hill Winery was matched to Italian meatballs 😁
Throw that into the car fridge and back on track to the Pioneer Village. A small fee for entry to the Village, payable at the General Store. Had a chat to the Caretakers as you do. There is a map of the village you are given which has all the buildings numbered and a description of it. Make sure you take a hat, put on sunscreen and take some water with you and it'll be happy days. We spent about 2 hours wandering around the village and it was really interesting and impressive. Such a wonderful thing seeing the restored buildings and what they were used for.
This home was so cool to walk through 
This pub was pretty cool too
Sleeping quarters attached to Blacksmiths shed
Back into town for a drink at The Welder's Dog for our mate Andy. Wow, what a great bar, great atmosphere and really cool décor. There is a cellar below the bar that you enter via a lift and it can be hired for private tastings - that would be pretty fantastic.There is food available from the in house food van on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, so no good to us on a Wednesday!
You could quite easily settle in at The Welder's Dog and relax for an afternoon session, we decided we best leave now or neither of us would be driving back to camp. Anyways, we have Italian meatballs and spaghetti for dinner and a lovely red wine to enjoy with them!
Inverell what a wonderful little town.
This pub was pretty cool too
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