Visiting Berry (continued)

Diary, Life in Australia, Old Age 2 Minutes

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This is “Paulchen”, our fourteen year old car. In 2001, when Peter’s sister Ilse stayed with us for three months and “Paulchen” was still fairly new, Ilse lovingly called the car “Paulchen” . Whenever we tried to make a sly remark about the car, she would not tolerate it. She always urged us not to say anything bad about “Paulchen”. Apart from a few little dents, “Paulchen” is still okay, good for a drive in our surrounds.

I think we reached Berry on Saturday at around 11am. We were lucky to find a parking spot straight away right in front of the French Bakery Restaurant.

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Another view of our parking spot. To the right we noticed a beautiful cottage
We thought this cottage looks lovely.
We thought this cottage looks lovely.
The Restaurant is next to the cute little cottage.
The Restaurant is next to the cute little cottage.

The restaurant was originally a barn. It was cuddly warm with a heater switched on.

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Soon our coffee was served in big cups. The pram in the background was a joy to watch it kept bouncing up and down the way a cradle would.
Soon our coffee was served in big cups.
The pram in the background was a joy to watch. It kept bouncing like a cradle!

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And yes we had Eggs Florentine and Eggs Benedict on sourdough bread with hollandaise sauce.

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The couple with the baby left the restaurant about the same time we did.
The couple with the baby left the restaurant about the same time we did.

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I took a picture of Peter before I sat in the car.
I took a picture of Peter before sitting in the car.
This picture is taken through the wet windscreen of the car.
This picture is taken through the wet windscreen of the car.
There must have been a little bit of drizzle while we had been sitting in the restaurant.
There must have been a little bit of drizzle while we had been sitting in the restaurant.

After our beautiful meal we felt energised to go for a walk through town. The restaurant had been filling up while we were in there. We noticed people had to queue up for seats and parking spots in the street might soon be getting scarce. I urged Peter to drive to the other end of town where we could probably find a parking spot not too far away from the street where all the shops are. We actually were able to park the car somewhere else without any problem. Our walk along the shops could begin!

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This is enough window shopping for today. There are still more pictures to come in my next post!

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Auntie, Sister. Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, Mother and Wife of German Descent I've lived in Australia since 1959 together with my husband Peter. We have four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. I started blogging because I wanted to publish some of my childhood memories. I am blogging now also some of my other memories. I like to publish some photos too as well as a little bit of a diary from the present time. Occasionally I publish a story with a bit of fiction in it. Peter, my husband, is publishing some of his stories under berlioz1935.wordpress.com

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2 thoughts on “Visiting Berry (continued)”

  1. Quite an array of interesting shops to browse through.
    I can see why it is a tourist town, a lot of enterprising retailers.
    I do like that quaint turn of the century old home, very Victorian.
    Regards
    Ian

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    1. Thank you Ian for taking the time to browse through all these posts about Berry. I like these small places with a bit of history.
      Cheers
      Auntyuta

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