As I'd predicted, Luce and I were the youngest ones on the tour by far. And also the slimmest, as the others were obviously going to take "edible attractions" to a whole new limit! There were 2 Aussie women, a Kiwi couple and a rather large American woman. First stop was the Australian Nougat Company, where we could see how nougat gets made funnily enough (you don't even want to know how much sugar goes in that stuff), then on to the Ginger Factory which apparently makes 40% of the world's confectionary ginger - we love our facts and figures on this trip! Got to ride on a crap steam engine and have our photos taken with a large plastic gingerbread man and look around loads of tacky "ginger-themed" souvenir shops. It was not just a
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