Clunes is located 20 kilometres north-east of Lismore. It’s fitting ‘Clunes’ is the Gaelic word for “pleasant place” because the village boasts beautiful North Coast federation houses and some early Australian church architecture that add to its charm.

Named after a pioneering engineer called Robert Mortimer Clunes, the village is said to be the birthplace of the area’s dairy industry and was once a staging post on the Lismore to Bangalow Road.

Today it’s still a hive of activity, with locals and tourists alike shopping or dining at the Clunes Store and its popular cafe or browsing the 25,000-plus secondhand books in Uncle Peter’s Books.