John took us on a guided tour of McClaren Vale…one of Australia’s renowned wine regions not too far away on the Fleurieu Peninsula. It’s filled with wineries (76 cellar doors), produce shops, olive groves, galleries all set in the rolling hills that are still minutes away from the coast.
We visited a number of wineries including [...]
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More driving round and round as we toured Fremantle: fisherman’s wharf and jetty, the Fremantle Prison (built by convict labor between 1852 and 1860) and the Roundhouse, the oldest remaining building in Western Australia, built as a jail, and the first permanent building in the colony. There is a tunnel underneath the walls, built to [...]
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Our arrival in Montagu yesterday afternoon was typical for a Sunday in any small town. Everything was closed. We did get a map from the info center and found our way to the De Bos Guest Farm. Our double en suite (which was about the same as we’d been paying for a shared bath) was [...]
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