Spending a Day in Hunter Valley and The Entrance

lisa2008

Recommended by a couple of friends, Hunter Valley has been a place in our list of 'places to go'. Though got up a bit late on Saturday, we arrived in Hunter Valley just by the noon time. Who says the wine market reflects the economy, which is so true – really feeling a bit disappointed after seeing several wine yards before we finally got to Allandale Winery, the one established in 1978 (website: http://www.allandalewinery.com.au, photos: http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=zh-CN&newwindow=1&q=Allandale%20Winery%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi )

Life is too short to drink bad wines is my ex boss's famous words. I am not an expert of wine, nor is my LG. However, good wines do make me feel good. Particularly white wines – almost all sorts of Australia and New Zealand white wines work just well with me. It's not because I dislike red wines. Red wines can taste perfect but sometimes my body is strongly against them – I could get a 24 hours continuous headache if I drank the wrong red wine.

We quickly bought a mixed dozen of red/white wines as the little one got hungry, ‘can't stand for even one second, mum’. Rushing to a closest restaurant we found there was almost nothing to eat for lunch except for all sorts of beautiful cakes – one more blame to the bad economy. Anyway, my son got very happy as cakes were just what he wanted, so a pure cake lunch with 2 cups of cappuccino was all we had– good or bad for dieting?

If you go to Hunter Valley, you must pay a visit to The Entrance (http://www.theentrance.org )– really a great recommendation by my friend. The Entrance is an ideal place for kids, eg. Vera's Water Garden. But the most famous activity there is Pelican Feeding which operates at 3:30pm every day (http://www.theentrance.org/pelican_feeding.html ). We got to the Entrance at around 3:00pm so the little one did not miss anything, including a 1 and half hours sleep in the car on the way there.

Have taken some photos – not perfect ones but good enough for memory:)

                               
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[ 本帖最后由 lisa2008 于 27-7-2009 19:40 编辑 ]

lisa2008

。。。。。

pentaur

good story