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I think there are two problems with trying to cover a city in a blog/LJ post. One is the size, even of a small city, means there's too much material to include, whereas for a small town, you can put in all the significant buildings and the place's background, and still have a shortish post. Two, if it's a place you've just visited, you can't get a true feel for or understanding of the place so it hard to write anything "meaningful" (and if it's a place you visit a lot/live in, there's too much to sort through so you never get around to it.)

Best solution might be to overlook them, but I have to "document" every place I visit, so that's not going to work. Other possible solutions are:

• do a series of posts (which I never get around to finishing)
  
  
• to focus on just one bit like I did in the previous post on Bendigo
  
  
• just put up some a few photos that show some apsects city, like I do with Melbourne
  
  
• just post random things as it suits me and ignore that there's no context like I do with some other place
  
  

Today I want to go back to Bendigo for a while, because then I'll feel it's done (and I might feel more inclined to find out something the town in 1854) and I can go on to write something with some sort of structure about some other place.

So the plan of attack, is to return to the fountain, go up the other street (View St, I think, but I've lost my map) and then add in a some random photos to finish off.

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The Central Deborah Mine in Bendigo.

Central Deborah Gold Mine is a quartz-reef gold mine located on the Bendigo Flat near the Bendigo Creek. The mine operated from 1939 to 1954 and was the last commercial mine to operate in the wealthy Bendigo goldfields.

During this time miners extracted almost one tonne of gold (929kg) from the ground, which would be worth around $37 million in today's prices! From


Tour starts here.

The tour group consisted of the tour guide, an extra body from the archive room(?) because they need to send an extra person if there's just one person in tour group-- Hang on. One person in the tour group = me. By myself. OK....

So the whole group of one is taken over to the change rooms and outfitted with overalls (which were not going to go around me, unless they were too big elsewhere, obviously I'm not miner shape), boots, hard hat and a lamp (which is on the hat, but attached to battery thing at the waist).

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