Veronika Wild

Cheat's Billy Tea - I am using teabags today I must say I am shocked, shocked I tell you! Less than two weeks after Christmas, the Easter bunnies were already in the shops. Today they were joined by Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns. I am also very surprised – pleasantly, by how many of you are reading this blog – 43.5 K this month. Would have thought reading other people’s travel adventures would be rather like watching other people’s holiday slides in those pre –selfie days. I usually don’t like other people’s traveller’s tales, either because they make me jealous or make me feel bad because they’ve done a much better job – better photos and so on, or because they are just pleasant and pretty, like tourist brochures, with no mention of the hazards and ugliness you might encounter. I do like them when they are exceptionally funny like “Molvania– A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry” [with apologies to any country which might see itself in the fictitious land described in thi...

  The Road Less Travelled I spent the next few hours driving over the Gog Range to Mole Creek. Google said the route I took was marginally shorter, although it had highlighted the other one via Sheffield (C137). This was in fact excellent advice. The hills and bends are still hair -raising, but it is sealed all the way, whereas the C157 which I took South from Stoodley, was practically single lane, had crests and right -angled bends and was partially unsealed. Heaven help anyone towing a caravan over this route. Fortunately it does eventually join the C137. What’s in a Name Speaking of Heaven, the only place I passed was the little hamlet of Beulah whose biblical name means the Gates of Heaven or "My heaven and home forever more"according to another version . A part from the shiny new fire station and hall, it looked as if it had seen better days. There were no shops or signs of life -just rusting car bodies in paddocks and houses with peeling paint. It’s name is t...