“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” ~ Carl Rogers.
I willing accept being labeled an advocate for increased emphasis on technology and science in education – essentially the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) subject areas. These are the skills most critically required in today’s rapidly evolving society and the area where insufficient graduates are choosing to pursue degrees. At a time when many people are either seeking employment or are under-employed, numerous positions are going unfilled as a result of skill-set mismatch. While important, it is not necessary for every student to complete a college degree though everyone should pursue as much education as possible.
No one should denigrate the value of a liberal education. But students must be cognizant of what skills will best serve them in the world awaiting them…
This is the Gabbys House where you can have High Tea ($45 per person) for a Relaxed and Delightful Afternoon! Maybe we could consider this for my 80th Birthday? Well, just a thought.
Or what about this place for Lunch? Lunch would probably cost only half as much. Plenty of time to think about it, more than three months actually.
But now let’s go along Queen Street a bit more. We are actually now on the side of Queen Street where the Old Post Office Building is.
On the way we saw this map in one of the windows.
This Bakery Shop is somehow connected with the French Bakery Restaurant in the other street.
We had done a lot of walking and headed back to our car.
Just outside Berry Peter stopped the car again to get out and take a picture of the beautiful landscape. I felt tired and stayed in the car. But I took some pictures from inside the car and later on I tried to catch from inside the car a bit about the road building activities. Peter had to drive slowly within the construction area.
Everywhere are sections where a lot of earth has to be moved for the widening of the highway.
A new bridge is being built.
A truck that’s being used for road building.The ocean can be seen a bit to the right of the road.
Passing Kiama Exit
This old Kiama Cemetery can be seen from the highway.
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.
Another view of our parking spot. To the right we noticed a beautiful cottageWe thought this cottage looks lovely.The Restaurant is next to the cute little cottage.
The restaurant was originally a barn. It was cuddly warm with a heater switched on.
Soon our coffee was served in big cups. The pram in the background was a joy to watch. It kept bouncing like a cradle!
And yes we had Eggs Florentine and Eggs Benedict on sourdough bread with hollandaise sauce.
The couple with the baby left the restaurant about the same time we did.
I took a picture of Peter before sitting in 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.
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!
This is enough window shopping for today. There are still more pictures to come in my next post!
Berry is a small Australian town in the Shoalhaven region of the NSW South Coast in the state of New South Wales, located 145 km (90 mi) south of the state capital, Sydney.
History
The indigenous people of the area were the Wodi Wodi people. In the 1810s, George William Evans, Government Surveyor, reported on the Berry district as a possible settlement and on the good stands of red cedar. Subsequently, itinerant timber cutters visited to cut and send cedar to Sydney.
Alexander Berry, with his business partner Edward Wollstonecraft, pioneered European settlement in the Shoalhaven region in 1822. The locality was known as Broughton Creek from its beginning in 1825 as a private town and part of a large rural grant holding called “Coolangatta”. The name was changed to Berry in 1889, following the death of David Berry, Alexander’s brother, to honour the Berry family.
The township of Berry lies on the South Coast Railway, and on the Princes Highway (Highway 1) between Nowra and Kiama. For much of its early history the town depended on timber cutting and dairy farming, with a tannery and boat building also present, but today, Berry thrives on tourism, with many souvenir shops, art galleries, antiques and collectibles shops, cafes, restaurants, and hotels. A local public hospital bequeathed by the Berry family, the David Berry Hospital, now serves as a rehabilitation hospital and palliative care hospice.
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I took yesterday a lot of pictures in Berry. Here are just a few of these:
At the Berry Hotel Lodgers are welcome.
ALPACA BURGERS are advertised at the Berry Hotel.
Opposite the Hotel in Queen Street is an Old Post Office Building. It is from 1886.
There are ‘Posthouse Rooms’ in the old Post Office Building as well as a Restaurant called LEAF.
LEAF stands for “Love Eating Asian Food”. They tell their customers the following:
“It’s our pleasure to serve fresh, healthy and delicious Thai-Vietnamese dishes to you!
Please come visit us to enjoy your lunch and dinner.
With Love
From LEAF
P.S. Fully licensed. BYO (Wine only)”
Some of the Outside Sitting Area of the LEAF Restaurant.This is in commemoration of Alexander Berry who lived from 1781 – 1873.
Next to the Alexander Berry monument is a little park where I took some pictures of Peter.
Last night I reblogged a post about global food supply. I think we should be aware that this sort of thing is going on globally. Some people do profit from shortages. It has always been like this as far as I know. I think for people like me to be able to cope with the worries about the poor people in this world it helps to turn to meditation and a belief in God. Do I help the poor people with this? I am under no illusion that this certainly won’t feed the people who desperately need help. However if I go mad this doesn’t help them either. If you ask me, I’d like to see a world where people would not have to starve because of the greed of others. How to change the minds of greedy people? Well, I wished I knew the answer to this!
I saw this poster hanging in one of the shops in Berry yesterday.
It calms me to read something like this.
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