If it had to happen........

it couldn't have happened in a nicer place!
We had stopped for coffee in a little town called Robinvale, around 90kms from Mildura along the Murray River, and as we left the town up the hill Betty started to splutter. We pulled off the road, and she died, and wouldn't start again. So we called the RAC, who took 20 minutes to agree where we were, (despite the fact that we said clearly 2kms Swan Hill side of Robinvale!!) then sent a man who took ten minutes to arrive.





He agreed with my diagnosis, it is the fuel pump, but it's Saturday, and nothing can happen till Monday, and even then it may take another day to get another pump. So we may be stuck here till Wednesday! In the meantime, as the mechanic has to get in from the top, everything, including all my woodwork, has to be removed from the back of the car, a day's job in itself! And it all has to be put back when he's done his job.
But as I said, it is a lovely place, we have a cabin on the side of the Murray, just 1km from the town, an easy walk.





Coming down to Mildura from Broken Hill a couple of days ago we moved into Victoria, and as we crossed the Darling and then the Murray we came over some very old bridges. This one is over the Darling at Wentworth, and was built in the early 1900s.  The centre portion lifts to let the old paddle steamers through, must still do as there are some still running, including the "Old Ruby", recently renovated and looking good.






We were in Mildura for two reasons, one to do our housekeeping, and the second to meet up with a couple we had met in Port Augusta and the Flinders, Bob and Jenny Utber.





Unfortunately Bob was away, but Jenny took us along to an art gallery / restaurant for a night out. And a great night it was too, an excellent meal and a blues band, Dog Gone South from Melbourne, played as we ate. And they were good, but not as good as the solo guitarist, also a blues player, Phil Manning. I understand he is world famous, he has played with Muddy Waters and the like, and he is seriously good.
We had a great night, sorry about the pics, but I don't like using flash when people are playing.

Earlier I had taken a pic of the confluence of the Murray and the Darling at sunset in Wentworth, it really is beautiful when the water is dead calm.