Friday, 20 April 2012

Bendigo

Life falls into a routine with runs and swims in the evening whenever possible and Kate, Cassie and I start playing tennis too. This week there are some strange surgical cases to challenge me but luckily  things go well.Saturday is a quiet day then Kate and I have an early start to Vet some cats at a local show on Sundy- the cats show varying amounts of enthusiasm for this! We meet Cassie for breakfast at an amazing place in Murchison and then she and I head over to Bendigo for a day trip.
Bendigo is part of the Australian Goldfields after gold was discovered in 1851. The mining continued until 1954 which was much later than some of Victoria's other gold towns. It's a small town with a pretty park, a mine tour which we decide not to visit and a chinese museum which we do. Chinese immigrants were an important and controversial part of the Australian Goldrush, coming at a time when chinese economics left many very poor so immigration was attractive.

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