I tell a lie, actually, we havent got rid of Malcolm yet, he's coming with us to The National, just as well we have no idea where it is. Malc is organised and we even have time on the way down to stop at The Old Bakery Tea Rooms in Berrima for lunch. Here we are three old english gentle men stopping for tea in the middle of nowhere. Yet again we have this habit of bumping into people who want to have their photo's taken with us. Vin called him a dummy and we ended up in the stockades. Oops I forgot to take my socks off before the photo was taken, well it was cold in the car!
We arrived in Canberra late afternoon and booking in with the Festival, sorted our rooms out at the very posh Pavilion Hotel along with Eddie Reader and my old friend who probably won't recognise me, Boo Hewerdine, only the best stay here. After inspecting our luxury suits, we made our way up to the Troubadour to see Vin's agent Andrew Patterson of Burke and Wills fame (read our earlier blogs). Would you believe it, there waiting for us was Vin's red Bintangs which he had inadvertently (ho ho) left in Tasmania, along with a tea shirt (Ho Ho) he had left accidentally left in Brisbane, what will come back to haunt us next? We haven't heard the last of the Bintangs, he's even threatening to auction them off at his next concert!! Quite to my suprise but not to Vin's, Malcolm knows where we can get an almost English pint of local hand pulled ale and it's just a stone's throw away, lead on Gonga Din.
Before we depart Sydney can we just say a huge thank you to Tim, Shari and Shelly of DiskBank in Brookvale for producing an extra 300 CDs for both Vin and I at such short notice, well done guys you saved the day.
My next report will be from the National Folk Festival, which is without doubt the biggest and the best in Australia, Vin has a concert at 1100 am tomorrow (Fri) morning so keep tuned in>
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