Twin Cities

Albury has just over 49,000 people and is the main area for shopping within the farming area.

Below is the train station, then one of the main streets taken through the car window along with a building in the 4th photo.

Wodonga in Victoria is about 300klm from Melbourne, so back in winter 2019 we were not that far from the ferry to get back home.

Below is Wodonga which has about 35,000 people but also a busy main street.  Photo is of one of the major supermarkets being Woolworths.

People came into the caravan park late in the evening and quickly set up their tent.

Love the trees.

Wodonga, Victoria

From Temora NSW we headed in Winter 2019 to Wodonga in Victoria, you just keep driving through the border, there is a small sign when coming into Victoria that says, Welcome to Victoria, if you blinked you would miss the sign.

It's about a 2 hour 40 minute drive which is just a nice drive for the day.

We headed to a different Caravan Park in Wodonga where we stayed the very first time we came to Wodonga some years prior, the caravan was nice and had different managers.

It was washing day, even though clothesline were provided near the laundry I preferred to do my washing in my washing machine in the caravan and my husband put the clothes line up under the awning. 

There are 3 photos of the caravan park.

 

Went for a drive to Albury which is in NSW just over the border from Wodonga in Victoria, the two towns are called Twin Cities.

Photos from inside the vehicles to show the beautiful trees in Albury NSW.

Glenrowan on towards Holebrook, Victoria.

Heading up the highway we decided to go much the same way as we did last year to Far North Queensland (FNQ) Australia.

We stopped at Glenrowan, Victoria for early lunch at the Bakery, it was cold, so cold. 

Parked in parking bay for caravans and cars and ate it, spotted the temperature at 2 degC.

After eating we got out for a walk and found Ned Kelly statue a notorious bush ranger way back.

The town centres around the memories of this man, a museum, gift shops and such.

We continued on and stayed at Wodonga, Victoria a rather nice town for one night, then off the next morning to another town to sleep.

The swimming pool at the Wodonga Caravan Park and the highway which goes through the town.

Wodonga, Victoria.

Been a very busy time since arriving home from our long holiday.
Youngest son has come home to live for awhile plus his 3 little ones come and stay here a couple of times a week 2 nights at a time, that makes 4 extra in the house - but it's good fun for us even though much more work is involved it keeps us busy.

Whilst we were away two of my Aunties passed over to the other side, one was nearly 99 the other was 82, both my late mother's sisters mum being in the middle.
Then two other friends died whilst we were away.

Yesterday being Sunday we went to Hobart for the day and had High Tea at Claremont House at Claremont just before you get to the city of Hobart.  Both Aunties had private funerals.
So now all my Aunties and Uncles have departed this world - I'm the next generation but we won't go into that!  :)

Below is Claremont house - photo borrowed.

Another thing that happened and of course not as bad as the above was one of my external Hard Drives decided not to work thus loosing everything, today good news, plugged it back in and all this working so I'm doing a backup!  Always pays to just incase.

Back to holiday.

On June 29, 2017 we headed to Wodonga for 2 nights.  Still cold we had to buy another portable heater as the one we had went bung! The new one wasn't real good either and has since been returned and money refunded.
Bought another blanket as forget to bring the one from home which was the only thing we had forgotten to take.

Wodonga, Victoria itself is not far from the NSW (New South Wales border) with the city of Albury being a twin city in NSW.  Wodonga has about 38, 600 people and Albury about 90,000 people.

Whilst in Wodonga we went to Huons lookout with it's rather pleasant views of Soldiers quarters and a small area of Hume Lake.

'Major secondary industries based in Wodonga include a logistics distributions hub (LOGIC), a large cattle market, a pet food factory (Mars Corporation), a can factory (Visy), a cardboard box factory (Visy Board), a hydraulic hose manufacturer, an abattoir, and a foundry Bradken Limited as well as a variety of other, smaller enterprises. It also serves as a central point for the delivery of government services to the surrounding region.

Australian Army logistics base and a training centre for Army technical apprentices, the  Army Logistic Training Centre, which is based at Latchford Barracks and Gaza Ridge Barracks. It is also the home of a campus of La Trobe University and Wodonga Institute of TAFE.'
Wikipedia.

On the drive up to the lookout this cow posed for the camera.