Well, what a difference a night makes!
After a stormy night, the temperature has gone from 320C yesterday
to 120C today and it feels freezing especially as it’s windy and
raining. We’re driving to Daylesford today via Ararat and Ballarat, the roads
are sprinkled with small branches, leaves and puddles.
Ararat is a convenient place for coffee,
and it turns out a convenient place for a quick fringe trim for me. Mission
accomplished, we continue to Ballarat, stopping at Lake Wendouree. Our walk
around the lake boardwalk is so short it’s non-existent because it’s so cold
and wet. The old lake pavilion is now a restaurant called Pipers by the Lake
which has been beautifully restored and is serving very good pumpkin and sweet
potato soup which is very welcome. The Ballarat Botanical gardens opposite are
beautiful especially the indoor begonia house. Not only are the flowers amazing,
it’s dry and warm too!
Begonias in Ballarat Botanical Gardens |
Tonight, we fancy a steak and we’ve seen a
steakhouse advertised in a doorway, it looks promising. There’s no frontage
just a door, up the stairs is a two-room restaurant with the smaller looking
like a gentlemen’s club complete with real wood fire, gorgeous. The steak is
amazing and according to the waitress just for lunch time, but they’ll do it
now for us, if they think it isn’t big enough, they’re wrong!
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