| Sixty-eight
kilometres north of Gundagai, HOLBROOK is a recommended food break
on the drive to Melbourne (or Sydney), with two excellent bakeries on the
Hume Highway as it heads through town. The Holbrook Bakery dishes
out delicious beef and curry pies, and the Scrummy Buns Bakery
across the road sells more unorthodox pies filled with crocodile, emu,
kangaroo and rabbit – plus cappuccino and continental cakes. Perhaps
these great bakeries are a legacy of a German past: settled by Germans in
the 1860s, Holbrook was called Germantown right up until World War I, when
anti-German feeling warranted a name change. |
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