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January 7, 2008
This sculpture or wall piece was on the wall of a cafe in Strathalbyn, near the Langhorne Creek wine region. We stopped there for lunch on our way back from Wilsons Promontory to mark the transition from holiday to work:
Gary Sauer-Thompson, metal coat, Strathalbyn, 2007
The SA country towns are often very attractive, and I'm suprised that Strathalbyn is not listed as a heritage town. It has heritage written all over it.
Looking back on the trip we agreed that our favourite was Penola in the big red country of the Coonawarra wine region in the south-east of South Australia. That town was very attractive and gracious, especially in the late afternoon light:
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Pub, Penola, 2007
The building is great, but the food was poor. Pity. Penola was mixing the new with the old, was proud of the old, and had a strong sense of settler history. Penola did not have that inward, bunkered down feel of some the country towns as it was linked into the global economy through the wine industry and international tourism.
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