BOOROWA HOTEL

RATED 5 OUT OF 5 HELMETS

Boorowa Hotel

37 Marsden St, Boorowa T: 02 6385 3000 E: Boorowa.pub@gmail.com W: www.boorowahotel.com.au

SO ANYWAY, IT MUST’VE been around 10.30 when the shots started. From memory the first ones were green.

Now, I don’t usually drink from thimbles, but I also don’t usually mix my drinks during a session.

I don’t tend to frequent themed hotels. And I sure don’t go to places of worship all that much.

But after an arvo spent in a Catholic church in central western NSW, followed by an evening in an ‘Irish’ pub drinking wine before switching to Guinness, I confess I continued chucking any semblance of usual behaviour and accepted an invite to knock back some ‘nobblers’ of various colours and constituents with a few lads.

Welcome to Burrowa as it was known to the first white settlers but which sometime around 1916, thanks to nasal twang and lazy lipped drawl, became, bereft of any statute, Boorowa.

I head in from the north-west, over the bridge, take a right around the Commercial Hotel and then another right at the information office and, as promised the doors of St Patrick’s church on my right are open.

Above the main entry at the south end of the church is an impressive stained glass triptych. Each