After enjoying the Winter Blues Festival for a few hours yesterday afternoon we spent the next couple of days wandering around the border towns of Echuca (Victoria) and Moama (New South Wales). This morning, we started off with Moama and its monthly market. Given that the Winter Blues Festival was still in full swing it came as no surprise that the market was particularly busy when we visited.
Continue reading “Moama, New South Wales – Day 317”Victoria R.I. – In Adelaide
The subject of this statue requires no introduction. It is Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 to 1901, Empress of India from 1876 and Queen of her dominions, including the Australian colonies, from various dates to 1901. Continue reading “Victoria R.I. – In Adelaide”
Kiss the Blarney Stone – In Sydney?
He or she who kisses the Blarney Stone is filled with eloquence and has a way with words or, as many would say, has the gift of the gab or is full of the blarney. The RamblingWombat has kissed the Blarney stone, not once, but twice! Continue reading “Kiss the Blarney Stone – In Sydney?”
Did that dog just talk to me?
When the adjacent Queen Victoria Building was being restored in the 1980s Malaysian developers, Ipoh Gardens, decided that an exterior sculpture of Queen Victoria would be an appropriate addition.
The hunt for a second-hand statue commenced and in the end Ireland obliged. Having found the requisite statutory something was required to cover an unsightly air vent from an underground car park which sat about 10 metres from where Her Majesty was to be erected. Continue reading “Did that dog just talk to me?”
Queen Victoria – Transported from Ireland
When the owners of one of Sydney’s most beautiful buildings, the Queen Victoria Building, decided to renovate it in the mid 1980s they sought a suitable statue to place at the main entrance. What could fit the bill better than a statue of Queen Victoria herself? Continue reading “Queen Victoria – Transported from Ireland”
The Rambling Wombat 