Fish n Chips Travel the world: Day 14 exploring around Broken Hill

Today we rode out to Silverton where the Mad Max 2 & 3 movies were filmed along with several other Australian movies. There is a museum there we didn't go in though there were lots of photos of the displays on the outside. We did go to some of the other shops in town though. The first one had displays of bottles, dolls and various other pieces of antiquity. And I bought a heart shaped crystal trinket dish (I collect heart shaped boxes, dishes etc), we then went down to the pub where there were photos of movies/actors and behind the scenes which were all very interesting. We then made our way over to a shop called Beyond 39 dips (which relates to the dips in the road out to Silverton from Broken Hill yes there are 39 of them!! anyway in this shop I buy some beautiful earrings and so does Leigh and we find a large, laminated map of Australia already packed in a plastic tube and we buy it and post it to ourselves. On the way out of town there is a group of Mad Max devotees who have met this week to talk all things Mad Max and they have some of the vehicles from the movie on display it's pretty funny!

We ride back into town and go to the Broken Earth Cafe for lunch it sits perched up on the mallock heap of the old mine site. Broken Hill was so called because of the boomerang shaped silver lode which is 7km long and goes into the earth at both ends and protruded above the earth in the middle and the pastoralists used to call it The broken hill. Lunch is yum Leigh has haloumi, Dave has risotto and I had lamb and sweet potato curry.

Dave has found another retro gem in Bell's Cafe and we go there for dessert they have the best milkshakes and sundaes as they use all their own flavourings. Mars Bar sundae for Dave, cherry ripe sundae for me and peppermint crisp sundae for Leigh. Back to the room for a quick nap and then Dave and I go to check out the Art Gallery in the main street. It's quite big and has some very impressive paintings and sculptures in it.

We went to The Muso's Club for dinner. It was OK then we decided to ride out to the sculptures on the hill. It just looked like they had placed some rocks at the lookout. But it was a nice ride and the sunset was very cool.