Today we went on a road trip, south to the town of Berry. My wife and I took Scully in the car for the drive south down the coast. We left just after 9am, intending to arrive at Berry in time for lunch. We stopped once along the way at a rest stop to stretch our legs and let Scully relieve herself, and arrived in Berry just before midday.
We went to The Garden, a cafe/restaurant with outdoor seating where we could eat with Scully. I’d tried to book it online, but they only take bookings for tables of 6 or more people, so we just had to show up and hope they had a table for us. I expected it to be busy with day trippers and school holiday vacationers. The main street of Berry was indeed very busy, but we were early enough to beat the lunch rush and got a table right away. I had the chicken cotoletta, and my wife had the pear and walnut salad with grilled haloumi. It was pretty good. And after that we had a couple of scones with jam and cream for dessert.
We took Scully for a walk over to The Treat Factory, a place that makes chocolates, other sweets, and also jams, sauces, chutneys, mustards, pickles, and similar sorts of stuff. It’s a pleasant walk a bit over a kilometre out from the centre of the town. I grabbed packs of liquorice allsorts, jelly snakes, mint dark chocolate rocky road, and a jar of pear and vanilla jam and a bottle of “red hot” chilli sauce.
After a leisurely walk back to the car we headed off home again. We took a more scenic route home, along the coast rather than the inland freeway, and got home just after 6pm. Here’s a map of the route, pretty much 300 km there and back. A good day out!
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