All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone", wrote Blaise Pascal, a French philosopher. It seems that even in 17th-century France people hated being alone with their thoughts so intensely that they'd do almost anything else: play boules, start the Franco-Spanish war, etc.
Well, short of going to war with someone, we went for a Sunday drive. After all, there's so much to see along the South Coast of New South Wales that it would take a lifetime to see it all.
It has fewer than a couple of thousand inhabitants but is almost self-contained what with a small shopping centre, a tavern, a club, several cafés and restaurants, even its own newspaper.
We had lunch at the Tuross Head Country Club (lamb's fry on a bed of mashed potato and fried onions, washed down with a glass - or was it three? - of wine), and walked the beach and did some shopping before driving home in the late afternoon.
Here's a bit more scenery:
