This is it - the official beginning of our 'Off to the West' blog!
We set off from home Monday midday and spent the first night just out of Horsham.
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| Ready to go! (thanks to Gordon for photo) |
Tuesday saw us heading for Willunga, a gorgeous little village just south of McLaren Vale, where we caught up with an old London friend, Rex and his wife Maureen. Given that this is such an important wine area, it was fitting that we got to camp at the home of Rex's cousin Graham and
his wife Judy, in the midst of their shiraz vines. Graham kindly shared a bottle of his 2009 vintage once we were all set up and a beautiful drop it was too! Can see that this trip is going to be very hard work.
On Wednesday we travelled all the way to the Coromandel Valley in the Adelaide Hills to the home of Maarten and Evelyn - more London friends. Denise and Bart (yes . . . yet more London friends!) came over for tea, so we have had a wonderful time seeing old mates. Today we caught the train into Adelaide and wandered around the Central Market and tomorrow morning it will be off to Mt Remarkable National Park, just south of Port Augusta, where we will meet Sue and Ian.
good to see the blog in action
ReplyDeletehope you enjoy Mt Remarkable park. some excellent walks there as i recall
Melrose, Wilmington are really interesting in their own way - the way things used to be. I bet even the people there don't like Tony Abbot or Joe Hockey or Christopher Pyne or Scott Morrison or etc etc. On second thoughts they probably have Barnaby Joyce as a pinup boy
Safe travels
Py and Jill