DAY TWENTY TWO (Adelaide)

What a great day we had! A tour round the Bosanova Valley (as Jan calls it) Barossa Valley. We also had morning tea, lunch, and several different wine tastings. 

Only seven of us on the bus, and it wasn't the Loooong distances of the Kangaroo Island trip. Our first stop was Jacob's Creek, a label I was all too familiar with in the 80s... It was a fabulous set up for lunches, tastings and corporate events, but we had six tastings, and then coffee and cake. We didn't have a tour of the wine making area, which I was quite glad of, as I've stood for a long time through many of them...

I almost regretted having three pieces of carrot cake, because our lunch stop was only about half an hour later. And what a lunch it was! Either chicken or beef, with a salad and thrice cooked chips, followed by a humungous pavlova. It was at the family run Lambert Estate. The chap telling us about the wines was excellent. He knew so much about all the wine regions of the world. And the Barossa Valley is the largest wine growing area in the world, with four of the top ten wines, in an international survey.

We had a couple of stops in the afternoon - one to see a huge big old gum tree where a family actually lived for four years in the 1800s. Talking of trees - I LOVE those huge big old gum trees which dot the countryside, some of them 3-400 years old!!

The next stop was the cute wee German settlement of Harndoff, where the others looked round the shops, and I sat in the first cafe I came to for a coffee and checked in for the flight tomorrow.

Off to Perth in the afternoon, where it's going to be 38°!!!!

PS Further to Gill’s card being declined yesterday, she discovered that she’d been scammed in Sydney of several thousand dollars!! She was on to it got it stopped.