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Editor’s note: After Hill End, the Royal Hotel Oberon is the second of John’s cameo posts. It’s a good one for him to take as well because, as John alludes to, I was barely functional at that point. Also, this will be the final post of the year before the blog returns in January with […]
Editor’s Note: This begins another 2-week stint of posts written by John. For this one, the Tour rolled on from the gem of a Royal in Sofala into it’s final stop for the night, the picturesque, quaint gold-mining town of Hill End. Even though our experience at the Royal Hotel Hill End this time around […]
After finishing up in Cassilis, the tour rolled on 2 hours south and seemingly 100 years back in time to the Royal Hotel Sofala. And that’s not a dig at Sofala by any means. I’m pretty sure the olde-time-iness is intentional. Or if not completely intentional, at the very least fully embraced. We thought Carcoar […]
After admiring the tiles one last time in Wallerawang, it was time to continue our tour. Just a short drive up the Castlereagh Highway was our destination for the night: the Royal Hotel Capertee. The drive up to Capertee takes you by the stunning Capertee Valley. And honestly, if you haven’t been, or seen it, […]
After departing the Royal Hotel Springwood, we completed our trek through the Blue Mountains. Just after coming out the other side we arrived at the next Royal for the tour, the Royal Hotel Wallerawang. The Wang (as I presume it must be affectionately referred to by locals) is a fairly small town with a big […]
With visions of Royal Hotel ownership still dancing in our heads from the Royal Hotel Carcoar, we continued on to our final stop on Light Beer Lane and this weekend of the Royal Tour: the Royal Hotel Blayney. After an epic 11 minute journey, we finally arrived at our destination. I had been through Blayney […]
Yet another very short drive up the road from the brilliant Royal Hotel Mandurama was our 4th and penultimate stop along Light Beer Lane: the Royal Hotel Carcoar. The first thing that hits you about Carcoar is how beautiful of a little town it is. I stopped counting how many times John used the phrase […]
After an arduous 4 minute trek up the road from our previous stop in Lyndhurst, the Royal Tour rolled into the next stop along Light Beer Lane, the Royal Hotel Mandurama. Little did we know that our third Royal on a random Sunday morning travelling up Light Beer Lane would turn out to be one […]
After departing Woodstock, the Royal Tour embarked on the arduous 13 minute drive to the next Royal on Light Beer Lane: the Royal Hotel Lyndhurst. We arrived at the second stop along Light Beer Lane just before noon. The Royal Hotel Lyndhurst is a vine-encrusted old-school bunker of a pub. It’s not the swankiest or […]
After an eventful night in Orange, the Royal Tour rolled on to the next stop on the Central West leg and the first stop on the Tour’s fabled Light Beer Lane: the Royal Hotel Woodstock. Please also note that I have now taken the reigns back from John for the next couple of posts. I […]
