View from The Rock.JPG)
Hotel on Baylis Street - the main street of Wagga WaggaWagga - place of crows! Wagga Wagga – place of many crows. Wagga Wagga is a good midpoint stopover when travelling from Sydney to Melbourne along the Hume Highway or via the Olympic Highway. The only problem is the popular Hume Highway passes about 50 kilometres south of Wagga Wagga and travellers tend to stop at places on or very near the highway thereby bypassing Wagga.
We stayed on a farm not far from Wagga for three nights in order to visit relatives and relive some boyhood experiences. The city centre is almost unchanged from the times my family would travel from Brisbane to visit at Christmas time. For many years we did not have a car so we travelled by train or bus often changing in Sydney and taking the best part of a day and night to get there.
With a population of 57,000 Wagga Wagga is both a cultural and services centre for the surrounding townships. It has museums and an art gallery which we visited (mainly aboriginal art). The city centre has numerous historical buildings and a lagoon with many shade trees. It can reach 40 degrees in Summer. There are several scenic drives and wineries in the area. We didn’t visit wineries and we didn’t go for drives but we did visit downtown to buy a copy of a Charlie Drake’s song My Boomerang Won’t Come Back, a big hit in the sixties. You can listen to it on Youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_prtbj4MtDU
We also went for a hike to The Rock a rocky outcrop that rises 350 metres above the plains just South of Uranquinty where my cousin lives.
We stayed on a farm not far from Wagga for three nights in order to visit relatives and relive some boyhood experiences. The city centre is almost unchanged from the times my family would travel from Brisbane to visit at Christmas time. For many years we did not have a car so we travelled by train or bus often changing in Sydney and taking the best part of a day and night to get there.
With a population of 57,000 Wagga Wagga is both a cultural and services centre for the surrounding townships. It has museums and an art gallery which we visited (mainly aboriginal art). The city centre has numerous historical buildings and a lagoon with many shade trees. It can reach 40 degrees in Summer. There are several scenic drives and wineries in the area. We didn’t visit wineries and we didn’t go for drives but we did visit downtown to buy a copy of a Charlie Drake’s song My Boomerang Won’t Come Back, a big hit in the sixties. You can listen to it on Youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_prtbj4MtDU
We also went for a hike to The Rock a rocky outcrop that rises 350 metres above the plains just South of Uranquinty where my cousin lives.
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