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Guinness on tap, local wines on the pour, a menu built on Riverina produce, and boutique accommodation to boot. If you’re ever looking for a pub to break up the drive between Sydney to Melbourne, this is the one.

The Sir George, however, is also a destination in its own right, the hotel standing proud near the Murrumbidgee River and housing a homewares store, beer garden, nursery and whisky lounge in addition to a kitchen that goes well beyond schnitzel (although there is a rather popular parmigiana).

Framed by ancient bricks and timber beams, the dining room is the kind of place where you want to eat pork sausage and white bean cassoulet, perhaps, or slow-cooked beef cheek sitting on a generous serve of colcannon and topped with frazzled leek. Pork cotoletta is underlined by pulpy tomato sauce and whipped ricotta; dessert is a buttery wodge of rhubarb and apple pie. Now, this is country living.