Echuca - Hot and Bothered and the Star Hotel

Oyster Moon
Paul Foskett & Rhu Nash
Fri 21 Dec 2012 08:51
As I said, the temperature was 42C when we got back to the car. I was seriously hot and bothered – after this trip I’m going to Norway.
 
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The Star Hotel used to be a secret drinking place. It was somehow de-licenced in the 1890s. The workers on the wharf were a bit annoyed about this and continued to drink illegally in The Shades – the cellar. It was then that an underground escape tunnel was built so the secret drinkers could escape the police.
 
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Stephen in the underground tunnel.
 
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You were supposed to pull/push this handle back and forth fast enough to turn the light on. The only thing I was interested in was in cooling my feet down.
 
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The bridge hotel had an historic upstairs gallery with rooms done out or nursemaids, rich and poor folk. luckily we never got any pictures of that.