We've never spent such a cold June or July as we've spent down in Australia! This "lodging" we rented for our stay in Ross was once a butcher shop 200 years prior! We've had the opportunity to stay at an expansive array of places through the years, but no other was so cold if you stepped away from the fireplace, and no other had grass growing up between the rug and the wall! Today, I couldn't describe the kitchen to you, but we all laughed that this was a very old structure, built to serve its purposes with no regard for esthetics! It's true, I'm positive, that structures in remote and rural areas of the US, might be much the same, but this was the first time we'd stayed in one!
A wall, in what was now our bedroom, had a board with numbers scrawled on it with regard to sales, perhaps behind a counter, once there. We couldn't turn on the electric heater until everyone was ready to go to bed as all lights and any other electricity had to be off so as not to blow a fuse!
These pictures were probably taken May 31st, as, we rose the following morning on Ken's birthday to the sight of sheep, covered in frost and breathing foggy breath near our back windows!
Goodness - this has not been renovated for comfort! The wall with numbers - might have been prisoner's numbers? The end of May would be a challenging time for low temperatures!
@maggiemae ...we'll be getting the "goal" and prisoner stories soon! No...another interesting thing to mention about Oz...kind of a "this is what we have...take it or leave it!" Does that resonate in any way? I'll explain soon! Let's say that Ken, who was born on a farm on a summer day in Missouri said that "in his dreams!" he'd never imagined spending his 50th birthday on a winter's day in Tasmania!
Ha ha, love it! We lived in Sydney from May til November, right across their Winter. We discovered Perisher Blue, the ski resort, having previously had no idea you could ski in Australia! And Yule Fest, which took place in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney at the height of Winter in June in Katoomba. Full on snowy Christmas tradition experience! Up until then we had mistakenly believed all of Australia was hot :)
Nice images with the fireplaces. We have one in Stanthorpe - and on the Gold Coast. Errol only lights them when the temperature goes under 17degC... We're a bit wimpy! Cheers Rob
