Dani and I had a great weekend in the vineyards of Hunter Valley. There was plenty of rain on Saturday, but that didn't stop us from visiting lots of vineyards and sampling plenty of wine.
Some highlights of the weekend:
- Picking up Dani in Newcastle on Friday afternoon after she'd had a meeting there with other University sustainability managers.
- The amazing views from our room.
- A delicious pizza at a very nice restaurant on Friday night.
- Watching several episodes of "Breaking Bad." What a great series, highly recommended.
- Visiting vineyards and trying lots of wine.
- Selecting delicious home made chocolates at a local chocolate shop.
- On Sunday morning, the best mocha and delicious crumble at a restaurant specialising in nothing but desserts.
- Checking out lots of great sculptures at one of the wine farms.
- Hunting down a bottle of sparkling Shiraz.
- Discovering that most of the ways out of the Hunter Valley were closed due to floods. It took us quite a while to get back home!
Views of the vineyard from our hotel
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| view from hotel room |
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Delicious dessert for breakfast
One of the restaurants in Hunter Valley specialises entirely on desserts. What an amazing selection of mouth-watering treasures they had. And what difficult decisions. I had Apple and Rasberry Crumble and Dani tucked into Lemon Merengue Pie. The highlight, though, was the Mocha that came with a jug of rich, molten chocolate that we had to spoon in ourselves. Best Mocha of my life and I've sampled quite a few!
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| Mocha doesn't come better |
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| Dani wasn't being a glutton - half of that was mine! |
Statues at a local vineyard
One of the vineyards we visited had a great art gallery and a statue garden. Here are some of the statues that caught my eye.
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When floods get in the way of home
We took an extra couple of hours to get home because it had been raining hard, and the first two routes we tried turned out to be flooded!
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