Antipodal Adventures
The weekends away trilogy: part 3.
Monday 21st April 2014
I'd like to say that I haven't posted for a while because we have been doing awesome things, but that would be a lie. It's really only down to one thing and I am ashamed to admit ... I have an addiction. A bad addiction. And Jan has had to help me get over it. Namely by ripping the iPad out of my hands and telling me to GET OFF DAMN PET RESCUE SAGA ALREADY! Yes, I downloaded something evil into my life and while I have been away saving many ickle wickle cutesy animals from coloured blocks, the news has been building up...
I shall confine this post to telling you about our long weekend away (which happened a couple of weeks ago now). You may want to relocate to a comfy seat with a beverage of your choice, as this might be a long post. *Twiddles thumbs for a while*. Right, ready? Ok.
I had an extra couple of days off work as the shifts rotated around, so we decided to take a longer trip into the countryside - to New England no less. We got up on Saturday and drove to Tamworth! We went via Gloucester, and Cardiff and Swansea and Newcastle! Oh, how we laughed.
Up, hicc-up and away!
Wednesday 2nd April 2014
"Up" because this weekend we went "up" to the Hunter Valley to continue our explorations of New South Wales. "Hiccup" because the Hunter Valley is another wine growing region here and I may have made Jan drive again and gotten, ahem, slightly inebriated again (I know this may be starting to seem like a problem, but I promise it's not! I practiced even more SENSIBLE DRINKING by adding food to the wine tasting this time - food in the form of CHOCOLATE!). And "away", because "away" we went, into the sky, for an amazing hot air balloon trip (part of the conditioning I am going through to rid me of my fear of heights, so I can go skydiving. Or so Jan thinks anyway...).
The whole of last week it was raining in Sydney and there were thunderstorms left, right, and, well, upwards, but by the time we set off on Saturday morning, the sun had broken through the clouds and we had a nice drive up the coast and inland to the Hunter Valley and the Wyndham winery for our wine and chocolate tasting experience.
