Armidale and Waterfall way

 





After the beach, I headed to Armidale. 

It’s a small town that was built with the intention of being a state capital when New South Wales was contemplating splitting into North and south. The architecture there is really interesting because of this very traditional English style buildings. Lots of brick, and the town is very much formed on a grid Because the state didn’t split though it never was used as a pylon and is now a university


The drive to Armidale was incredibly gorgeous. A portion of the road is known as waterfall way. Along the drive I stopped at many waterfalls for a quick wander. Beautiful views just really really tall waterfalls. They must be a couple hundred yards tall, shockingly tall I’ll have to look that up. Anyways, it was a gorgeous drive and I was really happy to be able to do it.


I stopped for pizza from a local bakery, every Friday night. They have Woodfire pizza night. The pizza was incredible. Maybe the best pizza I’ve ever had. The dough was super soft and very crispy on the outside just the right amount of chew. The toppings were plentiful with mozzarella mushrooms, arugula Truffles it was very delicious. So delicious. In fact that the next morning I went back for pastries. I got an almond croissant and a raspberry cream croissant. Arguably too much for me but the biggest problem with traveling solo is when you want to dishes and you can’t decide there’s no one to split it with, so sometimes you have to just order both. I was not disappointed.

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