More Faces and Places of East Gippsland

At the Art Space, Lakes Entrance Visitor Centre.  9am to 5pm, 7 days. 

An exhibition of images captured by John Munns continues at the Lakes Entrance Visitor Information Centre, with prints displayed in different styles and mediums.

Mounted canvas prints of photos like these below would provide a uniquely Gippsland touch to your home, office or restaurant.  For purchase details phone 5155 1966.

East Gippsland Events: Friday 26 to Sunday 28 May

Arts, crafts, history and music are the go as winter sets in…

Friday:

BGs Re-imagined  Paynesville Wine Bar  Esplanade Paynesville  8pm to 10-30pm. Relive those songs we all remember with this cover band.

Bairnsdale Senior Citizens Club    1.00PM - 4.00PM  52 Anderson Street Bairnsdale  New members always welcome   Phone: 5152 4389   

Bairnsdale Machine Knitters 10.00AM Bairnsdale Knitters meet on the first and third Friday of each month.    Mitchell Studio Education Hub - Cnr Dalmahoy and Service Streets. All knitters welcome. Experienced and novice knitters are welcome to join us. For further details. Contact Mary McPherson 0427 551 636 (Secretary)

Saturday:

Family History Research Centre – Lakes Entrance - rear of Visitor Centre Marine Parade. 1pm -5pm  and again  1pm to 5pm every Monday.  Ever wondered about your ancestors. Drop in and chat with the experts who can help you knock down those “brick walls”. Do you have a convict, publican, butcher, baker or even candlestick maker in your family. Extensive local and overseas records available on site. All are welcome.

Review: The Long Paddock

The Long Paddock, 93-95 Main Street,  Lindenow, Victoria  3865.    Ph: 5157 1638

www.longpaddock.com.au        Email: eat@longpaddock.com.au         Instagram: @lindenowlongpaddock

Open Hours:   Monday:  7:30am - 3:30pm.   Tuesday: CLOSED.   Wednesday - Friday: 7:30am - 3:30pm.  Saturday - Sunday: 8:00am - 3:30pm.   Ring during holiday times as closed on some public holidays.

“Leisurely Lindenow lunches at The Long Paddock, it’s the pick of the crop.”

Location:              Lindenow, often referred to, and arguably worthy of the title, “market garden of Victoria", due the huge amounts of varied produce grown in the area, is just a short drive (under 15kms) from Bairnsdale.  The drive will provide some magnificent views over the Mitchell River valley and of the rows of produce at varying stages of growth. Entering Lindenow the main street with its wide nature strip and a quiet service road, I suspect made wide enough to turn bullock trains in years gone by. 

East Gippsland Events: Friday 19 to Sunday 21 May

Cooler weather setting in but it’s still hot to trot around the region with things to do and see…..

Friday:

Matthew Bentley from 7pm  at the Main Hotel Bairnsdale   Influenced by John Butler, Gippsland Push Start winner in 2016, 18 year old Matthew Bentley from Bairnsdale loves with his Maton 12 -string and the earthy sounds he produces with it, indulging his love of raw acoustic roots music.   Book a table call the Main on 5153 0083.

Beauty and The Beast 7.30PM - 10.30PM  Forge Theatre and Arts Hub  80 McKean St. Bairnsdale  Ph: 5152 1482

Bairnsdale Senior Citizens Club    1.00PM - 4.00PM  52 Anderson Street Bairnsdale  New members always welcome   Phone: 5152 4389   

Bairnsdale Machine Knitters 10.00AM   Mitchell Studio Education Hub - Cnr Dalmahoy and Service Streets. Bairnsdale Knitters meet on the first and third Friday of each month.  All knitters welcome. Experienced and novice knitters are welcome to join us. For further details. Contact Mary McPherson 0427 551 636 (Secretary)

Review: MMM Truffles Bairnsdale

MMM Truffles Bairnsdale         

26 Bailey Street Bairnsdale 3875   Graeme Reynolds     

PH:   0488 555 864.   www.mmmtruffles.com.au        mmmrtrufflesfactory@gmail.com       

“Mmm - sit back, relax and enjoy”

Location:             A fresh new location in the CBD of Bairnsdale sees MMM Truffles expanding and providing not only weekday but weekend opening hours.  This location is light bright and interesting, has al fresco tables on the street and inside a retro style array of seating options, “cintique” chairs and lounges, tables for six, four or just two. Take your choice and whilst there you can discover an interesting range of collectibles even some antiques which are displayed for sale. The venue follows the quaint style of Graeme’s Lakes Entrance shop so well liked and patronised with music to suit the collectibles era played “live” on the record player! Table service is provided and a wash room is available on premises.

Images of Gippsland to view or buy

Faces and Places of East Gippsland

At the Art Space Lakes Entrance Visitor Centre.  9am to 5pm, 7 days.

A photographic exhibition presenting some hidden joys of some faces and places in and around East Gippsland.  The images are through the photographic eyes of John Munns, with prints displayed in different styles and mediums.

Mounted canvas prints of photos like these below would provide a uniquely Gippsland touch to your home, office or restaurant.  For purchase details phone 5155 1966.

Review: Tinamba Hotel

Tinamba Hotel                          

4-6 Tinamba Seaton Rd, Tinamba Vic 3859.  5145 1484.  
Web site, inc bookings: www.tinambahotel.com.au   Facebook: www.facebook.com/TinambaHotel

OPEN:     LUNCH   Wednesday to Sunday.    DINNER   Wednesday to Saturday.

“A unique mix of quality culinary sophistication in a venue with a hint of opulence but still unpretentious.”

Location:             About 7 Kms out of Maffra you will find Tinamba, and adjacent to the crossroads is the Tinamba Hotel first established in 1874. This hotel has seen many changes, the most significant being in 2009 when the current owners, Brad Neilson and Damien Gannon, a couple of real Gippslanders, purchased it having sold their restaurant (Neilsons) in Traralgon in 2008.  Brad & Damien both were born and raised in Gippsland, a homecoming for Damien, born in Tinamba, just up the road for Brad who hails from Traralgon. Having purchased the hotel in May 2009 they promptly closed it for 3 months of hard work renovating it ready for re-opening on August 22^nd 2009.  On street parking is available right outside this typical country pub facade of the period and across the best kept grass verge in town you enter into another world. I described it like entering the “Tardis”.  3 months of hard work renovating this establishment (I would not insult it now calling it a pub), the Tinamba Hotel is something really special.