Thursday 27th was a quiet day. Kelly and I walked to the park that surrounds the city centre, then Kelly went off to meet one of her pals, whilst I sat in the park and read - at least until the workers who were erecting stands and fences for New Year finally got to me and I wandered off. It was nice for a while though.
On Friday, we all headed for town in different ways and different times. Kelly, Ross and Chris walked in, whilst Jo and I sauntered down the Parade and then jumped on a bus. Would they take our Senior Bus Passes? Sorry - got to be Aussie ones.
We strolled around the city centre and bumped in to Chris and Ross a couple of times, finally all meeting up in the Exeter Hotel for a beer - a place we had visited before - a bit grungey - not at all up-market, but fine by us. We decided to try somewhere else for our next beer and lunch, but the 2 places we chose were shut until 4 pm! Never mind, we found a nice little Greek restaurant and had a nice time.
When we were at Rundle Mall, there was a petition to save a historic old fountain which they are now planning to demolish for some reason. Here's what might be one of the final sightings of this:
In the evening, we just ate in Kelly and Chris' back court. Ross was making Cuba Libre's:
On Saturday, Kelly stayed at home and chilled out, whilst Chris drove Ross, Jo and I to the Barossa for some more sampling and viewing.
Our first stop was at the famous Jacob's Creek. We didn't really want to taste any of their wines, but thought we would look in to their new visitor centre anyway:
Next stop was an altogether less industrial winery, recommended by Chris - Rockford, located in farm/steading type buildings - look at their front web page - http://www.rockfordwines.com.au/
What a beautiful place - and they had a sideline in preserves as well, so we did a fair bit of shopping here.
From wine to beer - we arrived at Barrosa Valley Brewing (http://www.bvbeer.com.au/Display/) in lovely Tanunda. Great place, super beers and sampler trays too - what's not to like?
We left there to head for the other Barossa brewery in Greenock. We'd been there before but it was shut - and it was again this time, so there's no way we're giving them a 3rd chance. We then hotfooted it back to Tanunda, but also stopped off at another of Chris' winery recommendations - Torbreck (http://www.torbreck.com/) - super place and quality again.
Back at the brewery, we had hoped to fill our Growler (we'd bought one at Lobethal Bierhaus on Sunday) but they didn't have the licence to do this, so we just settled for another quick beer:
So that was Saturday - the following day we were heading off to Kangaroo Island for 4 nights, including New Year.
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