We spent two days in Brisbane, where everyone from neighbours moves. Bigger than you'd think, but smaller than it looks. Our highlights were the river, a Warhol exhibition and dinner with Erica's cousin Philippa, her husband Kane and their kids. Kane served up five different types of beer and finally cracked the 'Australian Beer Problem' by presenting two that were drinkable - for me Australia is famous for (bad) beer. These two fine ales showed all is not lost.
From Brisie we headed to just north of Sydney to stay with Phillipa's mum Heather and her husband Alex. We fared poorly on the board game front, with Erica going down to her Aunt at Scrabble in a big way and my Chess brain being repeatedly exposed.
And so to a day in the Hunter Valley, peaceful, full of vineyards (apparently several hundred) and no sign of either of us being the designated driver (thank you Heather). The HV is world famous in Australia for it's Semillon, we probably tasted twenty different types, it's also known for its Shiraz, another fifteen or so; it turns out it's not bad at dessert wine and sparkling Shiraz! All in all we took a good a look at six vineyards, stretching their capacity to offer 'free tastings' to the limit, it turns out there isn't one, but somehow we managed to buy five bottles of this or that.
Next stop Oxford Street, Sydders....
2 comments:
We hope Oxford St lives up to it's reputation! Great reading so far.
Alex and Heather
Sky's blaring out in the office and we've just realised... Ed is going to look like Capello in 15 years.
xx your old pod
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