Road Tripin' to Hunter Valley.

Hunter Valley was the next stop, we thought we'd take our time and cruised down the east coast. We had to stop at a petrol station for the night as it started to get dark, when we woke up we were surrounded by Kangaroos feasting on the grass outside our van, brilliant!

After two days getting to the Hunter Valley region we parked up at a rest stop for the night as we wanted to start our tour early. Hunter Valley is a massive wine region in New South Wales filled with 140 vineyards, many let you have a look around and taste some wine, another activity right up our street.

We started the day taking a tour around the Mount Pleasant Vineyard being taught about the workings of a big vineyard, really interesting but we were looking forward to the tasting. We thought we'd only get a few to taste but after the 5th white we realised we should slow down a bit (it was only 11am after all) We tasted some red, desert and Port wines! Time for some water me thinks!

After the wine we made our way to the olive shop, another tasting treat! We sampled olives, oils, vinegars and sauces which put us in the mood for some cheese, good thing the cheese factory was only next door.

After a lovely cheese board we decided to taste some more wine and went to the Brokenwood Vineyard, we got ourselves a nice red - as you can imagine we're now pro's at this, ha!

On our way round to the chocolate factory we discovered a deli which again had many things for us to taste, we managed to learn a skill of putting at least 4 olives on one tooth pick which I'm sure the counter assistants were very pleased about, uhum.

We finished our tasting day with some chocolate and headed back to the rest stop to start on the wine… it would be rude not to, right?