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McLaren Vale Slideshow
McLaren Vale
Travel Blogs from McLaren Vale, Australia
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A break from stingy backpacking
This is a top pick! We were supposed to spend our day in the McLaren Vale wine tasting as it is one of the biggest wine regions and also one which specialises in Shiraz – perfect for 2 red wine drinkers. However as we wanted to book a trip to Brisbane (explanation in ...
McLaren Vale wine region
This is a top pick! ... Sumac marinated grilled king prawns served with cucumber pasta and dressed with minted yoghurt and pistachios. To compliment this fine dish a McLaren Vale Chardonnay was served which had just the right amount to oakiness to round the taste off. ...
Fruit Picking Again
This is a top pick! ... our bags to the car park. Decided to give the harvest hotline a ring and were told that there was loads of work in the McLaren Vale region picking grapes again. Didn't want to fruit pick again but I needed the money and if work was available then I ...
Taking It Easy
This is a top pick! Had the whole weekend off and it has been mind numbingly boring. The weather has been miserable and it's getting too cold at night to sit around outside so we're going to bed early. All I've done for the last 2 days is sit around and watch the Melbourne ...
Maclaren Vale - wine and food!
... large and staged over a creek and stepped areas so i look forward to some exercise), Granny and I set off south towards Maclaren Vale for the obvious - wine! On Chris Snow's recommendation we stopped at Tantara (one of Hardy's oldest winerys) as it also ...
McLaren Vale
We were only going to stay in McLaren Vale for one night after getting back from Kangaroo Island (it is close to the ferry port), but as it turned out we ended up staying for four. This is another wine producing region near Adelaide but it is not as well ...
FAIRWELL SWEET ADELAIDE
... pulling a cart filled with 18 bullocks room to do a "u'y". How quaint. Tonight we have moved on to McLaren Vale, another wine producing area of Australia. So I guess tomorrow we will have to go wine tasting all over again. ...
Grape Picking in Mclaren Vale
It was quite easy to get a grape picking job, you just turn up to a wine region and find an agency. We turned up on the Sunday and began work on the Monday. It has been very different to the pear picking. Firstly we don't live on site, we live on a ...
The Wine crawl from sunrise to sunset
Estamos em McLaren Vale, região conhecida pela produção de excepcionais vinhos que são exportados para todo o mundo. Nesta região concentram-se mais de cinquenta produtores. E, esta região é turisticamente apelativa uma vez que as várias adegas ...
Assaulting the caravan park!..
Viver numa carrinha tem implícito, normalmente, algum nível de incerteza...essencialmente se vamos conseguir tomar banho de água quente ou apenas um enorme balde de água fria (em formato "jacto de chuveiro"). O resto prende-se com ser apanhado pela ...
What a Staff Party
We went to visit Joe and Raylene in McLaren Flat for a night and ended up staying for a week. Time just flew by. Que ended up helping Joe in the vineyard and I have no idea what I did but the days just rolled on by. Que and I met Joe and ...
It's Official - 12 months on the road
... everyone, We are now back in South Australia and staying with friends Joe and Raylene for a couple of days at a vineyard in McLaren Vale - just down the road from Kangarilla where we house-sat over Christmas. We have now been on the road for a whole ...
Wining & dining
... 20th August After another hard week at work, or half week in my case we spent Saturday with Jacqui & Shane driving round the McLaren Vale doing as the locals do, making the most of the local wine by cramming in as many tasters as possible at the ...
Trains and automobiles
Saturday and another day in the caravan park. Washing first - 2 loads again and on to the line which is great because of the sea breeze which gets it dry pretty quickly. Today we met the new folk next door for a long chat - Peter and ...
McLaren Vale
... . :-) Oh .. back to the wines. :-) It was here that we confirmed that the wineries at McLaren Vale were experimenting with more grape varietals now, as they do make a Sangiovese here, and Sangioveses are rarely ...
Countdown - 3 weeks to go.
We have only 3 weeks to go before heading OS once again. Unlike last time we are not as prepared and haven't even begun to pack. Not nearly as organised but hoping that because we have been there, done that, that it won't be as difficult. All the ...
Fine wines and fabulous hosts
... the trail. We also had the delight of only a short drive down the road to another of Adelaide's wine districts, the McLaren Vale. We have a recurring theme here on our trip to the Adelaide area … visiting wineries, tasting wine and purchasing some ...
McLaren Vale to Coober Pedy
Great day trip from McLaren Vale to Coober Pedy. Weather was nice and clouded up during breakfast. Once we pushed through the Saturday morning traffic of Adelaide, it was clear sailing. We saw free range sheep and cows along the ...
A Day in McLaren Vale
... and I ordered a pizza while we tasted the standard wines. We then sat outside and ate our pizza enjoying a beautiful view over McLaren Vale. The pizza was delicious but especially the base - it was the best pizza base I have eaten in a long ...
Monday 23 February
... . He is a travel writer and editor of a travel magazine. He emigrated there from Manchester 38 years ago. We then went to the McLaren Vale Tourist information office to find the location of restaurants for lunch. We went to Market 190. There I had Dukkah ...
Final Countdown
Well it's almost that time again. Woke up this morning feeling a bit funny in the stomach, ?excitement, ?nerves. All going well we'll be leaving this time next week. Have finally got the cases out and have packed most of the toiletries. The rest of ...
Elefantenhaus
... , führte uns der weitere Weg durch eine reizvolle Landschaft in eine der drei grossen Weinregionen um Adelaide – das McLaren Vale. 48 Weingüter verteilen sich auf sanften Hügeln um das gleichnamige Ortszentrum und sind auf einer ausgeschilderten ...
Kangaroos
... winery we spotted not 1 but 3 kangaroos hopping away from us as fast as they could. It was exciting to see them on my first day in Australia - got some great photos which are attached to this blog. Check them out. Roos galore!! ...
White kangaroos
One for the kids white kangaroos at Bordertown SA they are just white not albino stand out like a beacon photos attached if I get ...
Adelaide - McLaren Vale
Alexa and Simon invited me to go and do some wine tasting in the McLaren Vale region. First we went to the D'Arenberg cellar door. The owners of the vineyard had Belgium ancestors, therefore the name. We tasted a couple of red wines, most of them Shiraz ...
The Beach
Good Morning - okay right after breakfast Karen, Parker, Hailey and your truly left for the beach and oh what a beach. We walked along and picked up shells and just enjoyed the magnificent views and the beach. I brought along my camera and ...
Bergen
Our arrival in Bergen was met by a not uncommon downpour and in the pouring rain we stood for ages outside the railway station waiting for one of the too few taxis. Following the instructions of our B&B Skansens host we gave the driver the address and ...
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