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\"Allora<\/a>
Allora Plant Nursery, Darwin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Every year in August I try to escape from Melbourne winter and go somewhere warm. Last year we went to 3700 kilometres away to Darwin. \u00a0You can’t get much further away.
\nI was poking around in a plant nursery just down the road from our caravan park when I discovered Tah Dah !!!!<\/p>\n

\u2013 A Melbourne train carriage!! \u00a0 (for those gunzels among you it was Hitachi carriage no. 1971T)<\/p>\n

\"Allora<\/a>
Allora Plant Nursery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every year in August I try to escape from Melbourne winter and go somewhere warm. Last year we went to 3700 kilometres away to Darwin. \u00a0You can’t get much further away. I was poking around in a plant nursery just down the road from our caravan park when I discovered Tah Dah !!!! \u2013 A …<\/p>\n

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