Well the weather continues to be beautiful. We made breakfast at the B&B and then headed out to find an internet café to get some info for our next adventure in Tasmania. As luck would have it the internet café, called Cogwebs, also rented bikes. They’ve been in business 2 weeks and are from South London. Very nice people.
The bikes were brand new. We hit the Reisling Bike Trail which used to be a railroad path. Now it is a dirt path that runs about 25 kilometers in Clare Valley from Clare to Auburn through the different vineyards. What a great way to go wine tasting. Our first stop was Skilogalee which a lot of people had recommended. They were the first vineyard in the area to have a restaurant. The wine is delicious and lunch was fabulous. We ate outdoors surrounded by grapes, olive trees and roses. Then we went to Mitchell’s Vineyard where we met Louie the Brittany Spaniel. Oh and the wine was good too. Then we went to Kirrihill for our final tasting. All of that took about 5 hours. We certainly got a good workout on those bikes.
We decided to cook dinner at the B&B so we went to the local butcher shop and fruit and vegetable stand to buy ingredients for dinner. Then we went Kangaroo hunting as the woman at Kirrihill said Kangaroos are everywhere. Well we didn’t see them everywhere, but we did see 3 of them in a field on our hunt. I love to watch them hop.
We cooked dinner (beef filet on the grill, roasted brussel sprouts with pancetta and lemon, mushrooms in a wine and butter sauce, baked potato and salad. And we enjoyed a bottle of Annie’s Lane Shiraz. Yum.
Some local definitions:
Entrée means Appetizer
Main means Entrée
Half 2 means 2:30
If you don’t ask for your check at the restaurant, they never bring it. Ai yi yi
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