Good morning all, have you missed me!!?? It's been two days I know but I am back and ready to tell you all the things I have been up to with wonderful friends in an amazing and I think, under rated city! So I have claimed my spot by the Heggies pool and it is time to put into words some of the wonderful things I have seen and done. Some will be easier than others and some will bring back memories that quite frankly should stay buried, but more on that later....
It started on Thursday morning after the welcome drinks at Seacliffe the night before, with a little wine and chocolate tasting at the Hahndorf Hill Winery. It was just to be Tracey Jenn and I and we headed out in Jenn's gorgeous yellow beetle to Hahndorf, a stunning little German town about 40 mins away. I suspect it was colonised by the Germans hence the connection and it still has that feel with beer houses and sausage eating places (oooo err) along it's high street, coupled with shops and restaurants selling wonderful produce and goods. But for us it was all about the vineyard and Hahndorf Hill is a lovely one, with its vines today covered with netting to stop the birds eating the wonderful produce and an empty cellar door ready for us to enjoy some delights!!
We were here to match chocolate with wine, and the very informative Dee was our guide. Well, what a journey. A bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk will never be the same again. It was really informative even if we maybe didn't take it a seriously as we should. Apparently the only things we need in life are water, wine, chocolate and cheese. Nice to hear as that is my usual daily diet!! Chocolate, proper chocolate should be savoured like a good wine, not inhaled in a nano second as I know I do when I get my hands on a bar.....(I have to say at this point that I know I have given up chocolate for Lent and the ever persuasive Robert as Pigs Peake in Hunter had already made me break this in the pursuit of wine heaven, so me and the big man had a chat and he was all fine with it as long as it was treated as a scientific experiment.....yep it sure was!!).
We were taught to smell it, feel it, listen to it snap (the louder the snap the better the choc) to let it melt in our mouths and savour the taste. We did that and it took 20 mins to eat two small squares!! Then we matched chocs with the loveliest wines and after much laughter, chocolate snobbery, wine, more laughter, realising that just because a chocolate bean is rare and has villagers dance round it when it is picked it doesn't mean it will make the best chocolate, and just a little bit of ice cream we came away with a bottle of fabulous Shiraz and a longing for a pie....All jokes aside it really was an amazing experience.
So out pie craving was sorted with a trip to Otto's bakery and the yummiest fat filled curry pie ever eaten as we walked up the picturesque high street it was back to the Heggies to get ready for the night time entertainment - moonlight cinema.
In a flash we were all down by the beach of beautiful Glenelg with me, Carrie, Helen, Sue, Tracey and Mandy walker drinking contraband bubbles (it's a no alcohol dry zone but we decided I would just plead ignorance as a pom it caught and say it was my idea and I didn't know....sorry officer) and after not getting caught and soaking up another amazing sunset it was time to take our beanbags under the stars and watch the film.
I love this kind of thing and have done it a few times here but never at Glenelg and the added bonus of sun setting over the sea just to our left just added to its wow factor. The film was good, The Danish Girl, and even with some comedic and very well timed heckling from the Surf Club balcony and the rattling of beer crates being thrown away, it was a wonderful experience.
As the film ended it was apparent that the almost litre of cider I had consumed whilst watching the film was needing to be released from my bladder and an entertain and very painful run/bent over double hobble followed to the sounds of laughter as I ran past the guy on the door shouting 'get out of my way it's coming out....' and when I returned I think he was relieved to see I meant I needed a wee and not having a baby....
We bid our good nights to all and headed back to home where I fell into bed, happy but tired and looking forward to what was next on my itinerary..... and I think that will need a whole new post!!
So until the next one which won't be far behind, TTFN xxx
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