A Chilly Drive to Victor Harbour

The weather change overnight has been remarkable, it is blood cold with last nights minimum at 5 C and it has warmed up a bit the morning but has a long way to go  before it is comfortable. Anyway, we are driving to Victor Harbour today, so can only hope it warms up a bit.

We drive through more wheat country with the only consolation the the road conditions are better on the main roads. Looking for a place to have our morning cuppa, we first called into a town called Dublin, with a promising effigy that looked a bit Irish on the way into town. Sadly, it was a neglected road stop that had been bypassed by a new freeway and had little other than a fuel stop going for it.

Our map shows that Two Wells is a much bigger place, so we set our hopes on stopping there. We did find a bakery that served reasonable coffee, so stopped there in the freezing cold, both for a comfort stop and a cuppa. There was no seating inside, so we waited in the warmth to get our coffee and sat in the car to drink it.

Onwards to Adelaide, we skirted the Western suburbs , where roadwork seems to be a priority (is there a local election coming ?), and wound our way through this until we could see our way clear to go on towards McLaren Vale. Soon we are driving past signs to wineries we have known for decades, but we need to find somewhere to get a quick lunch, and a bakery always seems to be the right answer. We found a nice little bakery in McLaren Vale called the cottage Bakery, had a great pie and Pumpkin Soup, just what was needed in this cold spell.

We drove around McLaren Vale more to do some sightseeing rather that stopping at any wineries, as it was so bitterly cold.


Vines are in various states of pruning, but you can see there are some very old vines below


We moved on to our accommodation for the next two nights, The McCracken Resort at Victor Harbour. They have a tough golf course as part of the resort that we will take on tomorrow in hopefully warmer weather. It is a links course designed by Tony Cashmore and it could be an interesting day.




We had dinner tonight at the resort bistro, and the food was actually very good.





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