Christmas, ho ho ho!!
Christmas away from home is odd at the best of times. But Christmas in the Aussie country is waaay odd. Those of you who work where I work will know there's a vineyard across the road, so you'll know what rows and rows of vines look like. Now imagine that you're driving past these vines for miles at a time and they stretch as far as the eye can see. Yes, you're in the Barossa. It's amazing.
So I spent the christmas period there with the family of the people I'm staying with in Adelaide. They are italians so we had some wicked italian food as well as the usual christmas turkey. It was all pretty good.
On boxing day (which they have here as well - what was the purpose of boxing day again??) we went to Banrock Station to have a look around their vineyards and wetlands. (You can have a look at their webcam as well, look at the visitor centre and scroll up to see the wetland area - v. pretty.) I also partook in a little wine tasting, after all, it'd be rude not to. But these wetlands are pretty nice, they have set up some reeds and so on for the critters to hide in and there are lots of birds who potentially could use the lake to take up residence. So they have these bird hides where you can look at the birds on the lake, the idea being that you see them but they don't see you. (Although this would work better if the area you looked at the birds wasn't about 3 foot square (ie. fucking enormous). Yeah and they have this other thing going where they've put up a clipboard so you can write down what exciting things you've seen. Anyway, the aussies, being flush in the sense of humour department have filled it in with things like: Items seen: 17 T-Rex or 5 Crocodiles or 1 Pelican - a loner. The only thing true was the pelican not a sign of a croc or a t-rex, and I'm sure I would have noticed one of them. But hey, there you go. This is life in aussie country.
But the Barossa is cool. I don't know if everyone would find it as weird as I do, but to me it's odd to see such famous brands knowing this is their turf, literally. You're walking past the vines which produce the grapes of the wines you drink - Jacob's Creek, Penfolds, Yalumba and many more. It's quite impressive.
I got a couple of pictures on my camera on my phone, but need to load them up - will do that and if they look OK, I'll load them up.
Off to Sydney on Saturday for New Year, which should be good. It could be one of those things that seems a lot better just hearing about it, but then again, seeing the fireworks on the telly always looks amazing and I love fireworks, so maybe it'll be as good as it looks??? Obviously I'll update you later.
Oh yeah, and I got sunburn yesterday so now I look like a total arse with tan lines around my neck and arms where my t-shirt was - honestly - I should have worn suncream, but it was only about 26 degrees, it's so unfair....
So I spent the christmas period there with the family of the people I'm staying with in Adelaide. They are italians so we had some wicked italian food as well as the usual christmas turkey. It was all pretty good.
On boxing day (which they have here as well - what was the purpose of boxing day again??) we went to Banrock Station to have a look around their vineyards and wetlands. (You can have a look at their webcam as well, look at the visitor centre and scroll up to see the wetland area - v. pretty.) I also partook in a little wine tasting, after all, it'd be rude not to. But these wetlands are pretty nice, they have set up some reeds and so on for the critters to hide in and there are lots of birds who potentially could use the lake to take up residence. So they have these bird hides where you can look at the birds on the lake, the idea being that you see them but they don't see you. (Although this would work better if the area you looked at the birds wasn't about 3 foot square (ie. fucking enormous). Yeah and they have this other thing going where they've put up a clipboard so you can write down what exciting things you've seen. Anyway, the aussies, being flush in the sense of humour department have filled it in with things like: Items seen: 17 T-Rex or 5 Crocodiles or 1 Pelican - a loner. The only thing true was the pelican not a sign of a croc or a t-rex, and I'm sure I would have noticed one of them. But hey, there you go. This is life in aussie country.
But the Barossa is cool. I don't know if everyone would find it as weird as I do, but to me it's odd to see such famous brands knowing this is their turf, literally. You're walking past the vines which produce the grapes of the wines you drink - Jacob's Creek, Penfolds, Yalumba and many more. It's quite impressive.
I got a couple of pictures on my camera on my phone, but need to load them up - will do that and if they look OK, I'll load them up.
Off to Sydney on Saturday for New Year, which should be good. It could be one of those things that seems a lot better just hearing about it, but then again, seeing the fireworks on the telly always looks amazing and I love fireworks, so maybe it'll be as good as it looks??? Obviously I'll update you later.
Oh yeah, and I got sunburn yesterday so now I look like a total arse with tan lines around my neck and arms where my t-shirt was - honestly - I should have worn suncream, but it was only about 26 degrees, it's so unfair....
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