Gulgong the town on the $10- note

Gulgong used to be on the old paper $10- note along with a profile of Henry Lawson. Lawsons mum  was born there and Henry was born in Grenfell, but spent a great deal of his childhood in and around this lovely town of historic 1850's buildings and the narrow streets to match.

"The night too quickly passes
and we are growing old.
So let us raise our glasses
And toast the days of gold."
So starts one of my favourite Lawson poems. Can you guess the title?

We press on to nearby Mudgee for a few days. the plan at this stage is to use Mudgee as a base and go out each day and explore the old gold areas around here. This has been on our "To Do List" for a number of years. A Ross Dainton painting that we still have, was titled "Hill End" and that is the first stop out of the Hill End /Sofala historic sites area. Glorious day today with temps about 25C on our arrival, we dropped the van at the caravan park on the river and moved straight into town. Info had it there was a market on run by the local Lions club. Off we go, before lunch and the market was quite good with about 50-60 stalls. I got sucked in by a woman selling her own lemon butter and a passionfruit butter YUMMO....