🇦🇺 Albury, NSW (13-Nov-2023)

I usually stop overnight in Albury when driving from Port Macquarie to Melbourne - it's about 10hrs on the first day and then an easy 3½hrs into Melbourne the following.
The video starts with arriving in Albury (just taken one of the M31 Hume Hwy exits), then me wandering around the quiet Monday evening streets to get dinner, then going for a drive around Albury the following day before continuing on the Hume Hwy to Melbourne.
Albury is a beautiful country town on the NSW-Victoria border ... Wodonga is just over the border.
I tried "Authentic Taste of India" for dinner, getting a lamb biryani. It was pretty nice - I asked for hot and it was hot (actually too hot for me ... the problem when you don't know whether you'll get Indian hot or Australian hot). I would order from them again.
authentictaste...

[@jamesnorman4965]

Thanks so much for going up Day Street West Albury, it brought back so many beautiful memories of Christmas Dinners at Gran and Poppy Brown's and all of my relatives who also lived in the street?

[@BrfffTravels]

Thanks for your comment, I'm glad it brought back nice memories. I was thinking the other day about the trips we used to take from Logan (south of Brisbane) to Bribie Island to visit my Nan & Pop in the 80s. Wish I'd captured more memories back then - I do have a snippet of video when I visited from Europe (living in Finland at the time) in 1999 ... kangaroos on the Bribie golf course.

[@TheMoopah]

Thankyou for that Albury video. It's changed a bit since when I grew up there. It's different but very much the same. Thankyou.

[@BrfffTravels]

You're very much welcome!

[@cold8236]

This is completely random. This showed up in my feed, started watching it for some unknown reason. At 11:49 I can recognize my family and I celebrating the birthday of my nephew. Uncanny.

[@MrWaalkman]

Nice old pickup @12:21

[@BrfffTravels]

Sir, if it's in Australia then it's a "ute" and not a "pickup". And I'm embarrassed I didn't notice it ... I would've lingered on it longer. {insert rant about the Americans shutting down the Australian car manufacturing industry and our superior utes} ;)
www.ridgebackbodies.com.au/did-australia-invent-the-ute/

[@MrWaalkman]

@@BrfffTravels Actually I knew that, but it looked like it was imported from the US. But then again, it's hard to tell from this angle. From the ass-end, everything looks like a 1940 Chevy pickup. :)
But I worked with a guy who had the Holden version of what we called the Pontiac G8. He loved it. I think that his was badged as a Holden.
And as somebody who worked for GM, I blame Rick Wagoner. He was as useless as tits on a boar hog.

[@MrWaalkman]

Oh, and to answer the Ridgeback question, no they didn't, the Germans did in 1896. :)

[@BrfffTravels]

To be honest, I think you are correct - it looks more like a US "pickup" than an Aussie "ute" from that era ... ours were smooth from the tray to the cab (I think ... ?!), whereas the cab & tray in that one are separate ... ?? I'm proud to say that the Pontic G8 is actually an Aussie-built Holden imported to the US!
It was actually partially the fault of an earlier government ... they pretty much dared the companies to leave (no more subsidies), so they said "fine, we'll leave then" ...