It’s school holidays in New South Wales and among the many wonderful activities available to children across the Northern Rivers, such as, of course, the beaches and other spectacular natural settings, is a new indoors option for both small and big kids, including kids at heart.

Let’s enter Lismore’s elegant starcourt arcade, one of the first buildings to be cleaned and restored after the twenty twenty-two flood with the experience literally revealing a silver lining in the form of a pressed tin ceiling that had been covered over for years.

with Kaea and Gabriela Armitage Mohi

PIC: Talia and Andrew Haagensen (Gabriela Armitage Mohi)