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Visit Wollombi – Online!

2025-04-14T20:37:12+10:0023 June 2017|

You may have already noticed that a newly redeveloped 'Visit Wollombi' website went live recently at: www.visitwollombi.com.au The former site received upwards of more than 5000 user visit per month and was the online 'face'

Enjoy a ‘Taste of Wollombi’

2025-04-14T20:37:12+10:0025 April 2017|

Murray and I are constantly proud of, and excited by, the range and richness of annual festivals and events held throughout the Wollombi Valley. These celebrations pull the community together in cooperative spirit and attract

Welcome to the (new) Wollombi Valley

2025-04-14T20:37:12+10:005 March 2017|

A new logo has been designed to provide a unified promotional image for the Wollombi Valley. The Wollombi Valley Chamber of Commerce, working to promote the area and to increase tourism, commissioned the design of

Protection from Ourselves

2025-04-14T20:37:12+10:0020 February 2017|

Australia really is ‘somewhere unique’. Specifically, our ecology is unique, beautiful, and fragile. Take Australia’s most common tree, the simple eucalypt. Except these trees are not actually so simple - owing to their ability to

Dos Juan’s Mercados fantásticos!

2025-04-14T20:37:12+10:0021 November 2016|

One of the most pleasing aspects of Wollombi, and there are many, is the constant initiatives and innovative changes being made around village. With a dynamic and creative culture there is always something new and

No Place Like Home…

2025-04-14T20:37:12+10:0025 October 2016|

Murray and I have just arrived back from traveling through China. Even though China is much in the news and its icons are clichés, there remains something of the frontier about the Middle Kingdom. Considering

Wollombi: Where Pigs Fly!

2025-04-14T20:37:12+10:0011 September 2016|

With only a relatively small population, the Wollombi Valley is fortunate to have a diversity of creative, artistic, and tourist-driven businesses. And ‘Where Pigs Fly’ Farm Sanctuary is one of the Valley’s most innovative and

And the Winner is…Missing!

2025-04-14T20:37:12+10:0016 August 2016|

The room was crowded with nominees and excitement. The men looked handsome in suits; the women beautiful, in elegant gowns. The ‘North Coast and the Legendary Pacific Coast’ annual tourism awards ceremony was being held

Impressions of a Wollombi Winter

2025-04-14T20:37:12+10:0020 July 2016|

The sting of the morning cold on exposed skin. Watching shards of rain hit the window from the cosy warmth inside. Woollen jumpers smelling vaguely of camphor. Breathlessness from energetically cutting and splitting firewood. A

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