After a lovely few days with Anne and Andy (and the dogs), I have started on my journey back towards Sydney and (eventually) home.

Lots more driving, over the mountains and down a road called the New England highway full of Scottish named towns, settlements etc. There are some exceptions – Stonehenge and Bolivia for example.

Incidentally, north of Stanthorpe there is a town called Texas. Apparently they refer to New South Wales as Mexico – south of the border!

I stopped for lunch in a town called Glen Innes. Apparently they have some sort of Celtic festival every year and, despite a range of interesting architecture (and a lot of bungalows), there was a definite whiff of Scottish baronial about some of it. Not as much as in Dunedin in New Zealand however.

This is the Australian Standing Stones, a national monument.

https://gleninneshighlands.com/australian-standing-stones.html

I am now staying in a B and B in Armidale where I have my own apartment!