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Well here it is Mother's Day 2010 and it is nearly 20 years since Mum passed away. We all still think of you Mum, thanks for being you!
The foolishness of 'old people', me in particular, I split/tore open my shins, the left one in particular, whilst jumping onto my trailer. To much hast & not enough speed me thinks and whilst it did not hurt all that much at the time but four days later the 'pain' has started to kick in. If I sit with the leg up it hurts when I have to stand and walk, if I walk it loosens up a piece but hurts when I stop walking. I can not win, oh well such is life!
I traveled to Whorouly yesterday for the netball games and found the township a very pleasant but spread out area. It was a long day and the leg gave me curry a fair bit, but that's what one has to do.
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY ALL MOTHERS.
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Travelers towing caravans around Australia should think twice about going to Benalla with their caravan. For more than ten years my partner and I fought to have the town allocate caravan parking areas for tourists, in the end there were two such spaces allotted, 'in a busy car-park'. It was pointed out to the relevant authorities that the spots are to small and to hard to park all but the smallest caravans. The caravan spots are some 300 plus meters from the present 'tourist information' building, never ideal for the elderly or in-firmed.
Another major problem facing caravaners is the fact that the council does not police the two caravan spots, but allows 'all and sundry' to park in these two spaces. It would appear that touists are not encouraged, in fact I have heard 'from the horses mouth' that the council didn't deem Benalla to be a tourist destination, and so didn't need to put in place any tourist infrastructure.
We have also tried for many years to have a tourist bike path put into place to join up those already in place,and being built, in other areas of the North East of Victoria. And the answer has consistently been 'we are not a tourist destination' or we haven't got the money. The Victorian Government has, over the past years, poured millions of dollars into other areas of the state for the very same type of bike paths as we have been wanting for Benalla.
So whilst there is a wonderful man-made lake in Benalla and other splendid tourist destinations in the area, think twice if you have a caravan or wish to cycle around the area.
Caravaners are generally a very astute group of people, and if the are not made welcome they 'go somewhere else' to spend their money. Benalla is missing out on an enormous amount of tourist dollars, and rightly so. So as I said, think twice before making Benalla a stop over.