Apparently, Parap Village is host to Darwin's Boutique Shopping Centre and the Famous Saturday markets. Well, it had 'ethnic' clothes, jewellery, food from lots of different, mostly Asian countries, some plants, the occasional healing balm, massage. Basically, a bit Camden without the piercings, and smaller. And hotter. I bought a string shopping bag.
Kathy had chatted up the bus driver and he dropped us off at a corner so we could make our way to the Darwin Military Museum "straight up the road, over the hill, turn left and it's down there". Which it was but not quite as near as that might sound. More like an hour's walk in direct sun and 30+C. We decided we would hitch back if necessary! The museum is in the East Point reserve which was absolutely lovely. Some very upmarket houses with incredible views over blue seas to Darwin. There were signposts warning of wallabies although we didn't see any. The museum itself was excellent, lots of 'memorabilia' which sounds tacky but wasn't at all, artefacts, recovered items like guns and vehicles and simply a huge amount of information about Darwin's and Australia's military history. Yes, there are photos but I'm a bit behind on that front.
And we didn't walk back an hour to a bus stop. A very pleasing young man from Melbourne, on hearing us enquire as to the bus situation, offered us a lift back to Darwin in his nice air-conditioned car. He works in HR and had stayed over for the long weekend as he hadn't been to Darwin before. I said I'd keep an eye out for him in Melbourne!
A little bit of shopping for more veggie burgers and an Easter Egg was followed by a natter in the pool with Rosie and then some swimming with bats flying overhead :-) Lucky I do head up sploshing or I wouldn't have seen them.
After dinner, I found out how the Litchfield trip had gone and then settled in for a drink and a chat with Rosie and various other residents. Strangely, it got funnier as time passed. Particularly side-splitting tears-rolling-down-the-face were our efforts to teach two Italians some more Australian and English vocabulary! You had to be there.
More walking about, discovering places and things tomorrow. On the schedule are
the Botanic Gardens and Mindil Beach but things can always change!
Happy wedding anniversary Mum & Dad xxx
This is yesterday's bat.. (Hiding in a small white square masked by technology - aarrggghhh) I shall keep trying.
No comments:
Post a Comment