But navigating via the Barossa Valley.
Morning tea at Linke's German/Austrian Bakery and tea rooms in Nurioopta. The photo of the beautifully gnarled grape vine is from there - another town with verandahs and grapevines.
From there we meandered through more wine label towns and to Hahndorf.
Harndorf is everything everyone has said - wonderful mainstreet full of craft shops and food shops with a strong german influence.
After lunch in Hahndorf we continued on to Adelaide, and found we were far to early for our flight so detoured to visit Mount Lofty Botanic Gardens.
As the name implies, the gardens are quite steep, built on the side of Mt. Lofty. We parked at the top, but that didn't mean we could walk down and avoid the steep climbs since we had to get back to the car.
The photo is of the view from the lookout at the top. And the next one is also from the lookout but of a section of the gardens.
One of the good things about the gardens on this slope is that I figure some of the planting ideas should be replicable on our slope.
I really liked this section with the vase shaped mediterranean shrubs along the side of the pathway, and the sweeps of ground covering plants.And I also loved the colour of this Japanese maple (Acer palmatum var. heptobum 'Osakuzuki'). The photo really doesn't do the colour justice. I think it's the cold, and Kinglake certainly has that.
Finally we made our way to the airport, grounded the rental car, and we were sufficiently early still that they put us on an earlier flight home.
Great trip. Great to be home.
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