13 September – Saturday
The most glorious weather today – about 27 degrees and sunny, even starting the day with breakfast outside in the sunshine.
We decided that this morning we would visit the Eumundie Markets – as did every other person within a 100 km radius! Very hot, very crowded and very large – makes Salamanca Market look rather small. However, it seemed to be made up of all the usual types of stalls – handmade soap, beaded jewellery, cheap clothing which is either imported or obviously hand made, painted tiles, fairy costumes, cloth handbags and food.
After we had worn out the males of the group, we decided to go to the Ginger Factory for lunch and a look. Even though Les and I had been there a few days ago, we had only visited the gift shop, not realising there was so much more to see out the back without having to pay for the tour. We ended up staying for over 2 ½ hours, with lots of interesting little shops and a lovely garden to wander about in. We even saw a very large water dragon and the children were very impressed with the mechanical models of the gingerbread man and the sailors at the entrance to one of the expensive rides.
After leaving the Ginger Factory we had a quick dash across the road to the macadamia outlet for the Spurr family to do a bit of nut shopping and Cameron to have a caffeine fix. Michael was a bit taken aback at the jars of “Kangaroo Poo!”
The most glorious weather today – about 27 degrees and sunny, even starting the day with breakfast outside in the sunshine.
We decided that this morning we would visit the Eumundie Markets – as did every other person within a 100 km radius! Very hot, very crowded and very large – makes Salamanca Market look rather small. However, it seemed to be made up of all the usual types of stalls – handmade soap, beaded jewellery, cheap clothing which is either imported or obviously hand made, painted tiles, fairy costumes, cloth handbags and food.
After we had worn out the males of the group, we decided to go to the Ginger Factory for lunch and a look. Even though Les and I had been there a few days ago, we had only visited the gift shop, not realising there was so much more to see out the back without having to pay for the tour. We ended up staying for over 2 ½ hours, with lots of interesting little shops and a lovely garden to wander about in. We even saw a very large water dragon and the children were very impressed with the mechanical models of the gingerbread man and the sailors at the entrance to one of the expensive rides.
After leaving the Ginger Factory we had a quick dash across the road to the macadamia outlet for the Spurr family to do a bit of nut shopping and Cameron to have a caffeine fix. Michael was a bit taken aback at the jars of “Kangaroo Poo!”
1 comment:
you mean to say Diane actually enjoyed the shopping?
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