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Narrandera NSW. May 17, 2018

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Narrandera NSW. May 17, 2018 Eight months? Has it really been that long since we were last out and about in the van. Sadly, yes, but we're finally on our way again and the plan this year is to do the full loop. We are doing a bit of a cheat's loop, not sticking to the coast, going dead west from Canberra instead of south then west and cutting a big hunk off the south-west corner of WA, but a loop just the same. Despite Monty-the-cat escaping and us having to wait till he wandered home again, we managed to get away a bit after 10. We've done the track south on the Hume any number of times, promising ourselves once again to side-track into Jugiong but again failing to so do, we ended up nearing Gundagai at lunchtime. Pig-pen or Dog-on-a-box? Neither, turned left and went into town proper looking for something more salubrious. We ended up in the 90 year old Niagara cafe whose singular claim to fame is the that John Curtain, Prime minister of Australia 1941-45, wandered in...