They Don't Sell to the Public (Part 3)

On arriving at New Norcia, it is exactly as I remember. Orange. The ground is orange, the buildings all seem to be orange (or a shade there of), I'm surrounded by orange and blue. Like I said, the greatest pallet is the one that nature gives you.

At first glance, there doesn't seem to be anything happening. We can't see cars, people, any building resembling a bakery and before we know it, we've passed through the town. Time for a U-turn and better use of our investigative skills.

After finding a few parked cars behind one of the many buildings, we find a turn in and follow it through. We found what we were after, at the back of the property is the hotel, and at the front is the museum / gallery. It looks like some people might be eating at the hotel which is a good sign. Our main priority though, is to find the bakery, everyone raves about it, so we've gotta get some for ourselves.

We parked near the museum / gallery. The people there seem to be carrying brown paper bags filled with something that might be bread of some sort. I'm not the most patient person and by this stage I am starving. I find a lady who seems nice enough, ask her if she's bought from the bakery, and if so, where abouts is it? The response I received left a lot to be desired. 'Why are you speaking to me? How can you not know there is no public bakery?' I think she actually said "Uh, they don't sell to the public, you just have to go into the gift shop and get it there" but that's not how it sounded.

Her rudeness aside. They don't sell to the public?! This is the New Norcia bread that people pay exorbitant prices for and they don't have a bakery that sells to the public?

The bread they had at the gift shop wasn't very exciting, so we skipped it and made our way to the hotel, we for something to ease our appetite. We tasted the New Norcia bread, with our starter, they make a good Dukkah too.

After lunch we headed back to the gift shop to see if they could sell us anything. They couldn't. There were only two loaves of bread left, and everything was so ridiculously overpriced, it just wasn't worth it.

So after an hour of driving, finding out there isn't any decent bread left, sitting at a hotel for an average meal and making the most of an amusing situation, we got in the car to take the 110kms back to Perth and visit The Nonna.