Been away but still have many things to say. Since New Years, I’ve been to the Blue Mountains and Hunter Valley …in a week, actually.
January 25th, 2010Long time no see but I’ve actually been getting busy!
Besides the work work work work work pattern (so strange waking up so early. Must get used to that), I’ve taken to writing in an actual journal.
Yes, after several years of just staying home I’ve decided to wander out into the world on my lonesome [well, not really, but at least, away from my parents]. Actually, I didn’t wander that far away from home. Still in New South Wales since I still have work although Tuesday is Australia Day!
Yay!
So, last week, I went to the Blue Mountains with SIFE.
It was really just a get together to see if we would kill each other or bond more from being in the same house for longer than 24 hours. Unfortunately, I really was only there for 24 hours because I had Varun’s party after, where I made a friend! Yay!
So, to the other thing in my packed sleepless weeks.
A getaway to the heat-filled and wine-filled lands of the hunter valley with Lesley!
I have more to say here because it was just yesterday that I came back from that weekend.
The moment you step..or rather drive into Cessnock on a Saturday afternoon past 1pm? It’s a ghost town. There was not a single store open but it was daylight. Pretty bad when you’re hungry.
However, due to the signs of commercialisation, the plaza was open and they had a woolies, a subway and a wendys, and there was a coles and target on the other side in another building. Yay. Rather sad, but open till 10pm? Goood. Need to eat!!
So the suite was very pretty though being in the country, the water was from a septic tank and thus disgustingly green and even the sink water was slightly yellow tinged and I think that was filtered. Yuck. Bottled water ASAP even if it was expensive imported water from Norway [VOSS? loll]
We visited two wineries – McGuigan Wines [winemaker of the year and I can see why! Their Shiraz and Moscato are gooood.] and Tempus Two/Roche Wines which is well..actually, a creation of one of the children from the McGuigan wine family, and their Aja Blush and semillion were absolutely lovely …because they were super sweet! Actually, dare I say Tempus Two was better?
We went cheese tasting as well but the cheese was ordinary and I didn’t really appreciate it if I could be appreciated.
Visited a brewery but it cost $2 a beer tasting and that wasn’t worth it per beer either when you could get wine for free and there were soo many bluetongue bottles of beer around places. Actually there were many pubs and breweries named Bluetongue and maybe they were sponsored by bluetongue, which is interesting.
Chocolate looked ordinary. I bought some Guylian with me and that was infinitely better.
What was most fun? Aqua golf!! Fun playing golf for the first time and even better’s aqua golf =)
Besides that, we went home but decided to take a detour for the sake of enjoying the ’scenery’.
Scenery it was not. We went on the road through Glenworth Valley/Calga and it was creepy from the moment you saw dead traffic lights as you entered and a completely empty road going on forever.
Of course, the worst part was the signage. These signs were like a crazied greenie’s sign, pinned everywhere protesting about everything. Signs written in blood coloured paint and talking about killing trees, and being against the sand mining there. The area was like a dead town. Truly dead. Left for resource mining and seeing that first hand kind of makes you think. And run away.
