Charm of SA- the wine region!

Dah nak jadi tempoyak aku punya peram entry ni. tapi kira masih relevant la bagi aku.. so apa ada kes? Hehehe. 

Well, aritu we went to one of Australia's oldest and the world's finest wine producing regions. Barossa Valley! It's like 2 hours drive from Adelaide.

 
Just a few snaps of scenery along the way. Breathtaking kan?!

Mula-mula we went to the Lyndoch Lavender Farm.

Actually kalo ikut timing of the year, it wasn't  that bad lah, masih dalam flowering season. Tapi, tengok-tengok tak banyak pulak lavender nye.

Rasa macam tak berbaloi pulak nak bayar walaupun cuma AUD2 untuk tengok 90 jenis lavender yang tak berapa nak purple sangat time tu.

 So, kitorang just amik gambar sikit-sikit je la. Next time kena pegi lagi nih.

Since dah tengahari time tu, kitorang cari port untuk lepak makan jap.
Haaa... tengok kau.... kalau Malaysians, memang tak sah makanan tak penuh meja.

Lepas tu, gambar makanan dah tak sempat nak snap dah... Masing-masing lapaq tak hengat.
Lil Adib main bola lepas perut kenyang.

Sambil tu we were arguing pasal nak naik heli ke tidak, bila dah ternampak banner ni...
Mengarut le jugak actually. Might as well naik hot air balloon jer (itu lagi gila mahal), tapi tu memang dah sekian lama dalam my bucket list.

Lepas dah kenyang, pegi minum beer ehhh Maggie Beer's Farm, kat Nuriootpa pulak. Actually ada le melencong ke Bowland kejap, tapi ramai pulak ummat, so kena reschedule balik plan.

Azure blue lake. Subhanallah. Cantiknya....

Jernih kan... Tapi air yang tenang jangan disangka takde kura-kura. Hahaha

And the kids were so excited seeing the tortoises.

Elehhh..dulu kat Tasik Shah Alam, boleh la every week pegi tortoise feeding. Dah kat sini, amekkaw... terus jakun bila nampak tortoise.

Bukan budak-budak je.. Mak budak pun sama naik. Hewhewhew.

Sambil tinjau-tinjau products lain...sambil testing sikit.
Woh... ada pulak yang buat kontroversi pasal gambar ni karang. Mihmihmih.

Verjuice cooking demo!

Sesapa layan Masterchef, tau le pasal Verjuice ni. Aku layan Monsterchef aku jer (MrHubby), so blur-blur sikit. Esa as the chef terer la bab-bab ni.

Lepas tu. yours truly dan Darwin pun feeling-feeling jadi hos rancangan memasak gitu kat studio setting tu. Hahaha...

Ada gaya macam err... Ketuk-Ketuk Ramadhan tak?
Okay, takpe..aku tau...aku nampak macam...err...macam bagus.  Kalau korang tak setuju, aku ketuk-ketuk korang sampai bulan Ramadhan. Kehkehkeh

Anep, the babysitter :-P

 

Cheeky boys.

Some family photos.
Eh gambar family Shifa takde pulak dalam kamera aku.

Ada pheasant la. Patut la tempat ni dipanggil Pheasant Farm jugekkk!

Habis mabuk-mabuk dengan beer, kitorang pegi cari coffee pulak.
Blond Coffee, Angaston. The Best Coffee katanya.

 

Semangat benau memilih menu. Last-last minum air coke jugak. Hahaha.
Aku minum milkshake jer, sebab I am not a big fan of coffee.

 Kat situ jugak ada chocolate dengan espresso beans. Pahit-pahit sikit tapi crunchy!

 

 

Lepas berehat, kitorang pegi vineyard.

Agak 'selenga'  jugak lah bila dah tershashul-shashul menyebut vineyard tu as vine (sounds like wine)...almaklumlah, ladang untuk wine. Bahahaha.

Well, actually, the pronunciation is....
vin-yaad (with vine bunyi macam 'sit'/ 'aa' sounds like 'arm') or
vin-yud (with vine bunyi macam 'sit'/ 'u' sounds like agree)

Sekian kelas bahasa omputih untuk hari ni. Kehkehkeh.

Shifa and I- being vain at the vineyard. LOL

 Whoaaa... very the green gittew.
...dan aku pun as usual, excited terlebih.

Pertandingan Laki Sapa Paling Hensem?

Fe-feeling  jiwang.
Almaklumlah..nak berguling kat ladang anggur tu ala Hindustan kang, takut miang pulak. Kuikuikui.

Scenic view of the surroundings.

Ehhh ada Tin Can Man sesat la!
Kat atas tiang pulak tu.

 Last but not least, we stopped at the Whispering Wall.
Actually tempat ni adalah Barossa Reservoir. But the concave wall tu  makes the words whispered from the other end boleh didengar kat the other end, walaupun 140m away.

 

 

Gila tinggi weh... naik gayat pulak mak, noks!

Magic kan?
So jangankan budak-budak, mak bapak budak pun jadi over-excited.

 Hello, Mama. Can you hear me?

Yes, loud and clear!!!

Tak payah jerit pun, just bisik jer.

 

Lil Adib who missed the fun, sebab baru terjaga dari tidur.

The kids sebelum balik.
Masing-masing posing ala superheroes. macam-macam style ada.

On the way back tu, aku kata kat Lil Adam... "See, I told you! It's magic. It's a whispering wall."

...dan Lil Adam jawab balik "But the wall didn't whisper. We did!"

Errkkk. Iyelah anak oiii.

We had so much fun.
Bagi aku... travel ke mana-mana ni, jauh tak kisah sangat... as long as the friends you travel with are the 'happening' type.
Thanks Darwin/Anep and Shifa/Esa!