Hi Everyone!
Although it is raining yet again, we are snug here in our cozy stone cottage. We decided that after a month on the road and the "enjoyment" of setting up and taking down Snappa, our trusty tent on a daily basis, we would splurge and stay in a B&B for a few days. Actually the tent is the easy part, it is getting everything off the top of Em, the car, setting up the tent, assembling the cots, pads, sleeping bags, pillows, ground cloth, chairs and table that take so long. Then doing it all over the next morning in reverse.
So we are enjoying glass after glass of local wines from the Clare Valley. Every wine aficionado knows of the Barossa Valley of South Australia, but the Clare is premier when it comes to Rieslings and fine whites and there are another four more wine regions here in SA (Coonawarra, McLaren Vale, Langhorne Creek, Southern Flinders). That and some dark hand made chocolate from Adelaide's own Haigh's Chocolate (Since 1915 owned and run by the same family).
We have been to monasteries, mines, malla forests (a kind of tree), and many, many vineyards and wineries in the last four days, not to mention a grand manor with more rooms than you could count that had 14 servants at its peak. Now it is used as a very high priced B&B and as an occasional movie set.
Most of all, we have been impressed with the land and the people who live and work it. Friendly and abundant, certainly a place to put roots down, even if you aren't a vintner!
Next we are off to the big city of Adelaide, via a drive through the Barossa. It will be interesting to compare with this magical place called Clare.
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