'Young: A pleasant country town in a bowl of low hills neatly laid out with cherry orchards'. We've just returned home after spending the weekend in the country town of Young, 'Cherry Capital of Australia' and home of the National Cherry Festival. This year's festival, the 63rd, celebrated the Australian Year of the Farmer and one of the highlights was a loud and colourful street parade.
Seated on the open balcony of the famous Wilders Bakery above the crowds lining the town's main street, Peter and I enjoyed a meat pie with chips and gravy before watching our first such parade. It commenced with the whoop, whoop, whoop sound of sirens from police cars and fire engines, which led a spectacular procession that included a town crier, pipers and drummers, horse drawn carriages, tractors, vintage cars, motorcycles, a variety of floats, and a Zimmer frame, too. Other highlights of the festival included a Celtic Tattoo, Bush Poets, cherry pip spitting competition, and market stalls. |
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