Canberra ACT, Nimmitabel, Bredbo, Christmas shop
Well, today (yesterday actually, but why spoil a god story with facts) is the day unfortunately. No more extending, no more procrastinating. It’s time to go home. One last walk on the beach, one last breakfast in the sunshine, a round of goodbyes and then that was that. All over for another year. Our track today is up through Bega, Bemboka and a stop at Nimmitabel for coffee and a yummy snack. We pulled in behind another old Viscount van, this one covered in paintings of volcanos and trees and vines and the like. And it’s door was glass with a carved timber frame around it. The two proud owners were taking their coffee at the outdoor table and chairs on the footpath right next to it, ready to bail-up anyone silly enough (like us) to stop and look and point at it. They eagerly launched into their story of how the van once belonged to RM Williams and that they bought it from a bloke who bought it from Williams. When they got it, it was covered in ropes designs and was fitted out with l...