Barossa Valley

Here are some pics from our trip to Barossa Valley on Easter Sunday. Barossa is one of the major wine-producing regions in South Australia as well as a tourist attraction. It's 1.5 hours drive from Adelaide city, pretty much like driving down to Ipoh. Bryan's mom came to visit, so she came along with us that day. Bryan's friend, Rei Lynn was kind enough to offer to drive. No way we'd be be able to get a bus on short notice as buses to Barossa are few and rather inconvenient. The main attraction in Barossa is the wine, so people usually go around all the wineries (quite a lot of them) sampling wine and enjoying the simple countryside scenery.

Ok la, quite lazy to type lots today 'cos I had a long day of tutorials. Every ounce of energy is drained out already...

What you see from your car window throughout your drive in Barossa. Rows and rows of vines. Not a single soul walking on the road, only flat plains, gum trees, dirt, cows and horses.

Lines of wine bottles on display at the Wolf Blass winery.

Me, Bryan's mom and Ken.

One big ass wine bottle. Perfect for alcoholics. :P

After visiting a couple of wineries, we went to Tanunda, a small town (more like a single street to me). There were scarecrows placed all over the town. Some of them were quite creative, some on the other hand were pretty scary looking. If the crows aren't scared at least people will be. :P This is one of the more sweet looking ones. :)

...This is my favourite scarecrow. He was placed in a "mooning" position with his bum cheeks made of pumpkins. :P:P:P I just couldn't resist.

Bryan and me outside the most 'comfortable looking' outhouse of a toilet in Tunanda. Guess who was inside? :P

Another winery. But the special thing about this one is there's a building that looks like a castle and a tall rod thing/tower. :P Yep, the name of the place is Chateau Tanunda.

The pretty lass on the left is Rei Lynn, Bryan's friend since primary school. Heh.. hope I spelt her name correctly.

While Bryan's mom checked out some wine, those with less financial capabilities went cam-whoring...

Actually wine here is quite cheap la. Cheap wine is around $2 to $15. So that's a pretty good price if you ask me. Just so happened most of the wines in Chateau were more high class...

Dirt road which Rei Lynn's poor car had to run on for half the duration in Barossa. It was so 'outback' that if I was stranded here, I wouldn't know what to do.

The view from lookout point!

We were a little too late for the lavender farm. By the time we reached there, it was closed. But the shopkeeper kept her shop open for us. So sad.... all the lavender was cut off already! *sigh* Was looking forward to see rows of beautiful purple...

And this here is my baby! A teeny tiny lavender shrub which I got from the farm! Erm... it looks a little wilty now though. Have to transfer it into the big rose pot on the balcony tomorrow. If not I'll probably end up with some shriveled up twig soon. Oh and this Bryan and Ken made a bet of some sort regarding how long my lavender will survive... It involves ice-cream. They refuse to disclose the details to me. -_-" Not like I'm bothered anyway.