Tanunda Hotel

... , and got a very nice view of the valley from a couple of lookout points.  Did enough to kill time before heading to Tanunda Hotel in the evening for pub dinner and drinks for a change.  Beer tonight it was ... burp. Wee Keng and I ...

... breakfast (which may otherwise be described as the leftovers from our cheesey lunch the day before!). We arrived back in Tanunda in time for our appointment with Jan, our tourguide for the day.  Her's was an impossible brochure to go ...

... and resident in the south of England.We also saw them roaming around wild at Healesville. That brings us up to date and in Tanunda,so hope all is well with everyone. We fly to Sydney in a week's time,but Clare Valley and Adelaide first. Love, ...

... we headed back towards Adelaide and on to tonight's destination at Tanunda (famous in my memory for Chateau Tanunda Brandy....not as a drinker but as a seller at the Hotel Charles) It was a fun day driving thru the Hills of Adelaide, lots of windy roads ...

We overnight in Adelaide at the Walker Arms Hotel and then drive to the Barossa Valley the next day. Our Thrifty rental car is the best yet – we got an upgrade to some SUV and it only has 8000 km on it.  Even with taking a scenic route through ...

... place still running - the pizza place that had decided to start closing an hour before its advertised time!  So we only just scraped in for last orders and returned to the Tanunda Hotel to scoff and snooze, and get ready to do it all again tomorrow! ...

Well, since I could only book one night in Adelaide for the moment, I decided to spend a couple days in the Barossa Valley.  If anyone is a big wine drinker you may have heard of it.  Its a pretty big name in the wine business I guess. I did ...

... Barossa Valley: http://www.novotelbarossa.com/ Golf Links Road, Rowland Flat, Barossa Valley, SA (61 8) 8524-000 Golf Tanunda Pines Golf Club Wine Wineries Map of Barossa Valley: http://www.barossa.com/webdata/resources/files/Barossa_Cella ...

... grown and irrigated. The day was growing into a kinder one - sunny and bearably warm. On the way to our budget hotel in Tanunda, the largest town in the valley, we stopped to taste wine at Rockford and Charles Melton. We rented oversize bikes from ...

... rest of our day.  She mapped our day out for us and even made reservations for dinner at a place called 1918 in Tanunda. We took most of her advice and headed to a winery called Peter Lehmann to have lunch consisting of the most spectacular ...

... us at the baggage claim where we collected our packs and got into their car. They live in Adelaide whereas their parents live in Tanunda, in the Barossa Valley, about an hour's drive north. Erich (their father and Emily's uncle) was to meet us later to ...

... an opal earring with small diamonds for my wife's birthday on September 4. We also enjoyed a short walk in the town of Tanunda; then to the “famous” Peter Lehmann winery where they served us some $100/bottle Shiraz and lunch.. Our last ...

... the sights, the small shops, little garden-wrapped houses, and the numerous old stone churches that seem to be on every block.  Tanunda in particular had 4,000 people and four Lutheran churches along the main street of town, so we felt right at home, ...

... my god its hard staying not quite over the edge. A lovely lunch helps bring us into focus again. Yalumba, St Halletts, Chateau Tanunda and Grant Burge are our stopping points today.  A little giggling, laughing from the girls,  two beer drinkers ...