Wednesday winery

Kelly has been working a 3 day week since we've been here and Wednesday is one of her days off. The morning was spent doing chores - shopping, laundry etc, but eventually we set off south towards the McLaren Vale area again - specifically the Woodstock Winery (http://www.woodstockwine.com.au/) for lunch. Lovely rustic, rural place. We missed the kangaroo feeding session but had a quick look at the small reserve they had there after lunch.

Lunch was lovely - 3 entrees (starters in Aussie-speak) was more than enough for us, plus a bottle of:

Very nice it was too.

Regular readers of this blog may recall an earlier mention of trees stripped of bark. There were plenty of examples today at Woodstock - gum trees, we are told:

In Scotland in Autumn, the leaves fall from the trees, but in Australia in Summer, it's the bark:

There's some pretty hefty chunks there, so it's no wonder that these signs litter the car park:

Miller liked the wombat statue:

and the old agricultural equipment lying around:

Nearby was Goodieson's Brewery, so we stopped off there as well:

Nice place - worth a visit, even if only bottled beers.

Tomorrow (Thursday) the man arrives to fix the washing machine. Apart from that, nothing much else planned. I may go for an early morning cycle, having got the tyre fixed on Chris' bike yesterday.