wondering what was going on .
“ Did you smell that ?”, I was asked as I circled back to where my partner had stopped .
The inviting odour hung thick around the corner store , the Meals Box café . Closer inspection revealed a hodge podge of foods and community supplies . The smell was a conglomerate of curries and when in Hopetoun do as the Hopetounians do …
It seems they actually don ’ t . Many local people aren ’ t aware just how good the curries are , matched by equally good coffee . Raj and his Meals Box café have certainly created a unique experience in a tiny regional Victorian town . We sat for hours watching the local world pass by , enjoying a curry lunch , before venturing further into getting ‘ lost ’. Our left , right , left , right , path took us into the Wyperfeld National Park , the third largest in the state of Victoria .
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