Bart Bear's Blog

This might look like a run-down old bush cabin, but in fact it is one of the nicest cafes that we have found on our travels around the Canberra area. It is at Bowning, a little village north of Canberra. It is also the place where I met the horses you can see three posts down; they were waiting hopefully by the back fence. The cafe has been built to look just like the old slab huts that the pioneers built. Dad says that his grandparents lived in a house just like this 60 years ago at Southgate in northern New South Wales. The walls are big slabs of timber and the gaps between the slabs are filled by plaster and small gravel. The inside walls are lined with ancient newspapers and most customers spend their time reading the walls while waiting for their order to come. If you are passing through Bowning, or near it on the Hume highway, roll on in for a snack. Actually, that's the name of the cafe, the "Rollonin".

Labels: Canberra, trips