POWs, Bishops and Sim Cards.
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Jun 22, 2007
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Hay,
Australia
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Today we headed for the Internment and POW Centre. We spent about an hour there reading all the stories and looking at the exhibits. Another well kept local museum, and one which makes you think quite a bit. It is hard to imagine that we interned anyone just because they were of German, Italian or Japanese heritage during the early 1940s. I guess also that I did not realize that we had so many Japanese (and other nationalities) Prisoners of War. We have now seen the centers at Tatura and Hay, and look forward to going to Cowra to complete the experience.
We wandered around town looking for the old Court House (which is still in use) - the hand drawn map in our booklet has a number of "inaccuracies" or perhaps it was artist's license, but it appears that the numbers on the map, and the actuality don't quite match up in a number of instances
Bishops Lodge
. Now, navigation is a source of yelling between Ted and I at the best of times, so this map does not help one bit.We visited the Restored Cobb and Co Coach. We also did the shopping,, visited the Newsagents, the Visitor's center and found some internet computers in the library.
Found a very helpful Telstra man at Betta Electrical who was able to extract me from a terminal situation with my mobile - I had entered the wrong pin number and my sim card became locked. Now am online again, but not sure how long for, as the battery has just about had it.
In the afternoon, we went to Bishop's Lodge, an old house built from iron for the first Anglican Bishop of the Riverina - it is a very interesting old place - huge high 14 foot ceilings (roughly 4.5 metres). There was a DVD telling all about the building of the place and it was explained by engineers and architects - apparently extremely advanced for the time (1889). We even found that the volunteer manning the house was the same volunteer as we had met at the Visitor's center in the morning. She told us that drought breaking rain was expected the next day.
Home again and tried a pumpkin pasta recipe which went quite well.
