We made it to the Hunter via Windscreens O'Brien - a lovely coal truck just outside Muswellbrook left us with a large chip and the start of cracking on the windscreen. Luckily Windscreens O'Brien are the first thing you see as you enter Muswellbrook and the guys there were really efficient - 20 minutes later and we were back on the road to Cessnock where we stayed at Hunter Valley Vineyards Big 4. A walk around town to buy tea, a quick spa in the common area where we met a Dutch/ Canadian who was visiting his son who works in Sydney and had a great chat about the way to approach travels in Canada.
Back for tea to the van where we had a dozen oysters followed by chicken salad with a nice botle of Chardonnay. Very nice too, a lovely finish to the day of travels.
The Park actually has a woodfired pizza oven that we could have used but we didn't find out until after tea. Too late!
We were really weary after the spa so we shut down and retreated to the van on dark to read and watch MKR of course. My sister rang and asked where we were. Hence the title of todays effort.
The next morning we headed up the valley for a few tastings - oooh not sure about morning wines though - Tamberlaine Organics - a style we hadn't tried before - Chamboucin - not my style - even tried one that was processed during a bushfire year and you could actually taste the fire and ash in the wine - again not our style, but great gardens and very pretty vineyard.
Tasted at Brokenwood (thankyou Maso), a coffee at Tempus Two, lunch at Audrey Wilkinson overlooking the vineyards and beautiful vistas and then on to Hungerford Hill where we tasted a beautiful Chardonnay and bought a bottle to take on our travels.
Then headed back to Newcastle, family and "Villa Valencia"
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