Tuesday the 24th of November 2020 – Mittagong, New South Wales.

Spent most of the day in Bowral, which is only 5 k’s south of Mittagong, also in Moss Vale which is another 10 k’s further on. Bowral is basically the home of Sir Donald Bradman and its where the Bradman Museum and International Crickey Museum is located, so of course I had to visit. Even Susan walked thru the museum (all be it very quickly).

Bowral is a beautiful town, as is most of the southern highland towns. After the museum and visiting the lookout, we had lunch and did some Christmas shopping, or should I say Susan did. I’m getting used to standing outside shops checking emails and news on my phone. In Ireland when we visited, I could sit and have a Guinness at the pub which was central in the town and watch Susan from shop to shop but its not that easy here in Oz. So the old mobile becomes my focus.

The Christmas decorations on the tress in the central park in Moss Vale.
Bowral from the lookout.
The Bradman Oval and Stand in Bowral.
Sir Donald Bradman’s statue at the Bradman Museum in front of the Bradman gardens where his and Lady Bradman’s ashes are spread.
Sir Don’s boyhood home in Bowral. This is were the famous film of him hitting a golf ball, with a cricket stump against a tank stand was taken. Bradman honed his batting skills as a junior here at this house, only a couple of hundred metres from Bradman Oval.
Where’s Wally, there he is in the empty stand at Bradman Oval.

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