AS A LOCAL, it’s probably best to frequent your favourite Toodyay cafe, restaurant and shop during the week because there’s no room on weekends.
What an awesome sight the last few weekends have been, domestic tourism at its best.
Excited and inquisitive groups, families and couples wandering the streets, cameras clicking, long lines and a rush for any vacant table. This warms my heart.
We are becoming that uniquely country experience – a day trip from the city.
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I encourage businesses to capitalise on this as people heed the State Government’s call to Wander out Yonder.
Remember, it is the experience that visitors crave and they take that experience home and share it with family and friends.
Most visitors are chasing something a bit country and something a bit unique, with authenticity, and always with customer service thrown in.
Yeah, yeah, sometimes there might be a visitor that can be just a tad annoying and that’s fine, don’t sweat it.
I say this because I was gob smacked to witness a shopkeeper complaining to someone about a visiting group while I was in their shop. Please don’t.
For the rest of our wonderful shopkeepers who I know provide long hours, endless smiles, hospitality galore and proudly show off and promote what our fabulous town has to offer – a huge thank you.
Yep, I have said it before, but we are the ‘next best thing’.
Helen Shanks
Toodyay
