Blogs from Tanunda, South Australia, Australia, Oceania

We still walk on Sundays, but it is not often we do a new walk. This week we tried the Little Kaiserstuhl walk near Tanunda This was a delightful 6.2 km in the Barossa starting at the Grant Burge Winery, with beautiful views and a section of the Heysen trail. The paths are wide and clear, with some paddock walking and some on the road. It is well sign posted and there is a pdf map available url=http://www.walkingtrailssupportgroup.org.au/documents/leaflets/LittleKaiserstuhlbrochureNov2009tmsnewrmnsmallerpics.pdfonline Our lunch picnic was on a log next to a ruin of a fireplace, mentioned in the brochure. A few showers of rain made for lovely panoramas, but getting wet was not that nice. Still it was gentle rain. Dan says... it was a great walk that reminded me of Ireland especially when the rain came. So what ... read more

The visit to Adelaide being now complete with the concert, it was time to head to the Barossa Valley, to check out the home of Australian wine production. With only around 1.5 hour drive to our chosen destinaion (Tanunda) we had time to visit the outlet shops not far away from the caravan park. It was raining as we pulled into the car park, and we headed into the outlet shops. It was not crowded and we wandered at our leisure and found a Ray’s Outdoor outlet that had some good bargains for the recent “Grey Nomads” With our Latte’s and a banana bread under our belts as well as our “bargains under our arms," we ducked back to the van and loaded up. The drive out to the Barossa Valley was at times in heavy ... read more