The Absolutely Superb Bibliothèque and Occasional Wine Bar, Boorowa

02/09/2026

Looking forward to local artist Kate van Leeuwen opening her art show… Nature of Her… at the wine bar / book store / Athenaeum on September 19, 5-7pm.

Thought I better do a wine bar face lift but don’t you hate it when the colour on the tin is not that the ends up on the wall?! The toys have just gotta work!!

We’ll get there Kate 😂

19/08/2026

19/08/2026

September 18, we are delighted to host Australian author Emma Pei Yin, whose historical fiction novel - When Sleeping Women Wake - is a great and moving read.

Emma is also a very funny speaker and I’m sure would enjoy the Western Rosella casting shade!

11/06/2026

An early Running of the Sheep in Boorowa?

No, it’s not .irish.woolfest yet … but it is coming soon (October long weekend)…

Rather, it is just Merryville’s own Wal Merriman driving by the wine bar / Bookstore to remind himself to get in early for some of the books that will be talked about at the Fourth Annual Boorowa Literary Festival next week! (Sold out, yay!)

Including The Peak by who, in a former life once drove down the Main Street in Wally’s Ute….

Now that’s a great Aussie mystery right there…

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28/05/2026

When you catch the Star Ferry to TST (lower deck) and see ‘s Peak in beautiful sunshine, and wander over to the and they happen to have an east-west exchange exhibition showing on garden design and you see both a Tingqua and a couple of Monets, and you find yourself at a twilight meeting at Happy Valley before ending up at a jazz bar near the old Barracks researching a Cote de Rhône you know you’ve had a day of it in Hong Kong!

Love Hong Kong!

27/05/2026

Every desert town needs water… Dunhuang has springs and the Dang River.

Its Silk Road history is built on harnessing those water sources.

The modern city has turned its river banks into a place of recreation, community gathering, sport (9pm table tennis anyone?) and beauty.

Well worth traveling deep into China’s north-west, if not for the donkey meat, then at least the desert sands at one end and the river running through it.



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25/05/2026

Sunrise over the Gobi desert, outside of Dunhuang.

Beautiful; worth getting up for.

24/05/2026

Spanning thousands of years, the Mogao Caves complex houses cells and caves built into the rock faces, with amazing Buddhist wall art inside. (No photos allowed inside, so only an external mural shown here).

This amazing Silk Road site is well worth traveling into the desert to see!



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23/05/2026

Dunhuang desert shots on their way, for now a final misty look at Pudong and the Bund.

Various boat tour options - dinner, no dinner, one bridge or two - and I know which option I think is best for a group.



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23/05/2026

Shanghai random moments: cool coffee shops in slow streets, lilong/ alleyway housing still around in ever decreasing numbers and a few old buildings revealing yesteryear charm… and a yesteryear charm antique shop that I could’ve stayed in for hours, with old maps and even receipt books from the 1930s…

Only by immersing and getting away from a bus tour can one really see some of China’s hidden delights!



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