It was a wet and grey morning today, but that didn’t put us off continuing with our plans to go to the Food & Wine Festival on the Southbank. We packed up our wet weather gear and Jo used her usual trick of lining her Ugg boots with plastic bags and we caught the tram into town. We bought tickets to enter the Farm Yard tasting area, and then all tastings were free. There was a variety of food and drink on offer so we decided to go with the sensible plan of starting with the food stalls before trying out the wines and beers on offer. We worked our way around each stall trying breads, relishes, pates, chocolates, puddings, olive oils, curry sauces and spices. Then it was time to move on to the wine
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