Hunter Valley part 2

Trying hard to keep updating my blog so thank goodness for weekends, here's Hunter Valley part 2!!

The next morning we woke up early to eat up the remaining food from the night before. Well, since we're leaving our little cottage soon, we decided to take more pictures of the surrounding of the place we stayed; Elysium Vineyard & Cottage.

Rocking on the rocking chair trying to act sickly like those dying girls in korean drama

Morning meditation

What's in there????

Here's the interesting part of the toilet in the cottage. Because the main toilet door can't be locked properly, one of the guys put a chair there with a sign which says..

Is kind of scary as you can see, especially at night when you walk past the chair is as though saying someone is sitting on the chair!!!haha

Fireplace

Outside the garden or rather the car park

Our roommate, Charlene from Guangdong and currently working in JP Morgan


Charlene's good friend David who's really funny and he likes to listen to everything about Singapore

After we packed up, it was time to continue our winery tours. Both my sister and kt had already bought the most bottle of wines as compared to everyone else, and the buying doesn't stop..I'm not a big fan of red wine but white wines especially dessert wines are nice. Make a wish..make a wish

Some leftover grapes that weren't picked


Olive tree

My sister told me that previously in the winter when she came up to Hunter Valley with my parents, it was quite pathetic as most of the vineyards were just dried vines. So, the peak period in Hunter Valley is during the summer. Anyway, our last day in Hunter Valley was the last day of Summer, officially Autumn started today.

The clear sky and low clouds makes it all feel really Brokeback LOL

We stopped by at a church.

This church is really unique, I would think that a church should have confession rooms but this one has a CRYING ROOM which is suppose to be sound proof, probably for wailing women when their husband leaves them.

Looks like a scene from a milk or cheese advertisement in New Zealand

Like I mentioned, Hunter Valley is not just about wine, there's chocolate and cheese too, so we went for a cheese tasting session!

Cheeezzzzz

I think our final destination was the Botanic Gardens which cost 15aud i think to get in and nobody was really interested so we just took pictures outside, is cheaper..what to expect when traveling with a whole lot of accountants haha

A friendship book I found in one of the shops..emo haha I wish my close friends were with me in this part of my journey in life

And finally, the wine collection from this Hunter Valley trip..

Old collection

New collection from this trip

I'm just going to cut and paste some information of the history of Hunter Valley wine:

Australia’s oldest wine region is also the home of some of the world’s most distinctive and outstanding wines. The most recognised of these is Hunter Valley Semillon, a truly remarkable wine that has been called ‘Australia’s unique gift to the world’. Hunter Valley Shiraz is also well-known. It is a medium bodied and savoury wine that pairs extremely well with food and, much like Hunter Valley Semillon, ages gracefully. Other outstanding varieties are Chardonnay and Verdelho.

The next post I guess I should be blogging about our version of celebrating pre and during Mardi Gras day