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A Weekend In Wiseman's Ferry ♥
August 8, 2010
August 8, 2010
Excuse me while I slip into the uncomfortable costume of one of everyone's least favourite characters, Bragarella, but holy holidays! I had the best weekend in Wiseman's Ferry!
Now, Wiseman's Ferry is small. EXTREMELY small. It's also only an hour's drive outside of Sydney, but goodness, it couldn't feel more further away. Life moves at a charmingly slower pace in Wiseman's Ferry, where everyone knows everyone, supermarkets don't exist and there's little to no phone coverage. Brilliant! If frequent entertainment floats your boat then it's a location that would probably drive you nutty in a couple of hours, but if relaxing and spending quality time with people is the aim of your travelling game, then start packing; sleepy heaven awaits you!
Ghoulish? I'm not sure! The Wiseman's Ferry Hotel, our accommodation for the weekend, is a bar/restaurant/hotel hybrid that's rumoured to be haunted. While I didn't experience any supernatural occurences, the building certainly did have an essence of spookiness, and the dark decor` of the corridors and bedrooms and creaking floorboards did nothing to diminish that!
Modern appliances? Built-in wardrobes? No! The Wiseman's Ferry Hotel is very old-fashioned, very rustic and there's one bathroom per gender for each floor. It could be the recipe for disaster but instead it manages to be perfectly endearing; it's olden day Australia at its best, and hey - the food was delicious!
Naturally, Detective Slugface had to come along, too. No, I'm not talking about my boyfriend - I'm referring to the bespectacled green slug holding a microphone that Tom and I regularly hide around the apartment for eachother to find, of course!
Oh, look! There's that super-modern identity-concealing technology that I used in the beauty tools piece again! (Tom was feeling all ''putting myself on the internet'' shy. Understandable!) After an enormous sleep and a morning stroll, we headed to the Riverbend Restaurant for a buffet breakfast, and sheesh, what a breakfast it was! Two pieces of raspberry flavoured jam toast, four hash browns and a bowl of cereal with fresh fruit later, and I will possibly never, ever feel hungry again. (Or at least for the next few hours!)
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It was simple, it was quick, and at $32.50 each for the accommodation, it was a remarkably cheap escape - and there's something so deliciously rejuvinating about a miniature getaway! A recommended activity? A-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y.
Okay, that's it: consider this the official signal that Bragarella has slipped out of the door! How was your weekend?
xoxo