Alison

A Night at the Hilton Garden Inn, Albany, WA

Continuing our three day break in the South West, we drove down to Albany with a stop in Coalmine Bay and Broke for lunch. I should point out that this isn’t a grammatical error, there is a place called Broke!

Coalmine Beach
John Rate Lookout
The Chauffeur and I
Nornalup Inlet
The Chauffeur
Pull up a Seat
Coalmine Beach

This beach looks perfect for a summer swim.

The drive from Pemberton to Albany is almost three hours, by the time we had stopped a couple of times, we finally arrived in Albany at 4.30 pm.

We normally stay in an apartment in Albany, but I noticed when I looked on Booking.Com that there was a new Hilton, so thought we would check this out. It’s in a great location, overlooking the harbour. I didn’t book a sea view but guess what we ended up with a fantastic view over the harbour. We had a beautiful luxurious room with lovely toiletries from Crabtree and Evelyn, no expense spared there.
The reception, bar and restaurant are all located in the same space downstairs, making it all very intimate.

The Garden Inn Hilton



After checking in and unloading our bags it was still light out so we went to have a look at the latest silo mural, which we could actually see from our room.

The above mural was painted by New York artists Yok and Sheryo. It features the Ruby Red Seadragon, and is only the third species of its kind ever recorded. It was discovered on the Albany shores 150 years ago. I’ve been fortunate to see quite a few of these silo art murals around Australia, but hope to see them all one day.

We had a quick drink at the Royal George Hotel before heading back for dinner at The Garrison.

Trainspotting
Albany University

For dinner that night I had booked The Garrison, which as you might guess is situated on top of the hill where the old garrison used to be. It’s a wonderful restaurant with great service and food. I find many places we go now are short staffed due to Covid, some places manage superbly with only two or three serving but others don’t seem to have coped as well. The wait staff seemed to move swiftly between table to table and we had no waiting time at all between courses. A definite 10/10 from me, I must remember to write a review.

Walnut Colada
Grilled scallops with cauliflower puree and pancetta
Lamb Schwarma ,tomato sugo, spice potato and smoked yoghurt

After a great night’s sleep and an invigorating shower using the deluxe toiletries we headed down for a buffet breakfast.
The rain had set in by now so we chose to head off to our final stop, Margaret River. I realised after I looked at the map that I had planned our trip backwards, which meant much more driving! From here to Margaret River it was a four hour drive.

I spotted this cute elephant down an alley as we were walking around yesterday.
On the side of a vets as we drove out of Albany

The endless drive through rain and sun

A cheeky add for PPAC

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  2. It looks like you and “the chauffer” are having a very nice holiday! The murals are delightful. I need to start looking for them on our travels. Where we live there are so many silos/grain elevators that it would be wonderful for someone to paint beautiful scenes on them. I am enjoying your trip.

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  4. I had to look up Albany, WA because I didn’t recognize any pictures and couldn’t place where Albany, WA was. As I watched the video it became crystal clear that you weren’t talking about WA – Washington, USA. LOL Thanks for sharing these great examples of public art, Ali. 🙂 There is an Albany, WA, by the way. 🙂

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