For our final full day in the morning we moseyed around some antique shops for a while, which we quite enjoyed, not having done so for quite a while. OF was with us, of course.
Yes, some sweets were bought, mine being chocolate covered liquorice bullets. I should have read the detail as they were raspberry flavoured and I did not like them at all. Still in the car glove box. R will eat them.
I believe this is the former Town Hall, now with a multitude of uses including a museum. We did not visit. There is another museum but it is only open at weekends.
There was an excellent car museum to rekindle memories. The entry price was quite reasonable.
I am unsure which of the two cars below was my favourite. They were both beautiful.
My grandfather had the same Ford Zephyr but with an automatic transmission and it was two tone blue and white.
Then it was off to Bremerton Winery in the Langhorne Creek area for a very nice lunch. We bought a pack of small bottles of wines and they were very nice.
It looks and sounds like a wonderful break. I do love the shapes of old cars, much more than our current boxes.
ReplyDeleteEC, up until perhaps mid eighties different car models had different looks. Now the look of cars is so generic.
DeleteThose cars are very well preserved. Real beauties.
ReplyDeleteLiquorice bullets? Ewwwww......
Chocolate covered liquorice bullets are delicious JayCee. Where are your tastebuds?
DeleteSounds like a great day and to cap it off, kind and friendly Oliver Fastbender won your heart via your stomach with a nice chicken curry.
ReplyDeleteWon my heart may be a step too far YP, but Ollie did serve up a nice meal.
DeleteI love the houses and shops, however their original designs were preserved :)
ReplyDeleteSorry, Hels
DeleteHels, I wonder if it has always been a popular tourist town, from the 80s at least.
DeleteI'm not a fan of raspberry bullets, the licorice ones are best. Those cars are wonderful. Modern cars may have better safety features, but they all look alike and are all the same colour each year; silver, white, then a year of beautiful jewel tones, then back to silver, white, etc. I'd love to forage in the antique shops and dream of what I might buy. I haven't had a curry in years.
ReplyDeleteRiver, of course you are right about cars and these old ones were death traps in accidents. Do you not like a curry? I watch R make them and I know the beginning, fry some onions.
DeleteI like curry, but it sets my rosacea flaring so I'm hot and red for a couple of days.
DeleteLooks a well kept place. Love the older buildings they always have character. The cars do look nice, much loved I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteMargaret, I've seen a few car museums in my time and this one was exceptionally good. Not a speck of dust to be seen.
DeleteOld cars, even the modest ones, had style. The best had beautiful lines. Now everything has to be aerodynamic, as though we're all aiming to travel at maximum speed . . . as if we could, through traffic jams and road repairs.
ReplyDeleteJabblog, aerodynamics is a bit of a joke for most drivers who rarely get above 60 km/h and generally travel at a much lower speed. I think of the beautiful lines of older Jaguars.
DeletePretty little town, I like the MG
ReplyDeleteTP, it would be good to have a zoom in the MG.
DeleteThis looks like a fine day. In my book, there is nothing more fun that having a relaxing nose about in an antique store. The museum looked to be a good one. Curry at the end of the day? Perfect.
ReplyDeleteDebby, yes it was a really nice day.
DeleteI hope you or your family have photos of your grandfather's car. ~nods~ I'm very fond of classic cars. One of my absolute, all-time favorites is the 1938 Rolls Royce Phantom III, not terribly unlike the burgundy vehicle you photographed. Thank you for sharing this awesome trip.
ReplyDeleteDarla, I am sure my mother has photos of the car. Those old Rolls Royce were magical. I fell in love with an old Silver Shadow in my teen years.
DeleteI like saying the word "Zephyr". Many of the small rural towns around here suffer the same dull store fronts, some boarded up, nothing upgraded or prettied and they're like a rainy icky gray cold day.
ReplyDeleteStrayer, it is such a nice word. Is it gentle warm breeze? Something like that. Yes, towns as you describe really don't have a future.
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