Orange

We overnighted in Orange last night. It was a lovely drive to here from Coonabarabran via Dubbo. The country is looking really lush which was wonderful.

Orange is larger than I remembered with 38,000 people and all the parks are full to bursting as it's cherry season and the pickers are in town. We got the last site on the show grounds and are surrounded by pickers, I was worried they might be a noisy bunch but it turns out they are up around 5am and home by 5pm and work too hard to be too noisy.

We had lovely neighbours Kayleigh and George who are a young English couple working their way around Aus. I said to Russ I must be suffering kid withdrawal-I wanted to invite them home (if we had a home) or cook a meal for them! We have exchanged phone numbers and hope to meet in WA around May next year.

Today we are off to Cowra to see, and stay a couple of nights with Mel and Stephen ho we met on our trip round Europe.