Friday, February 25, 2011

Rutherglen - Corowa - Howlong

Well we set off on a shorter journey today, first we went to Rutherglen where there are lots of wineries. Our first stop was to the Tourist Information which is usually our first stop in most places, but we have found the Victorian assistance very stand offish, they need some hospitality lessons, so we didn't get a lot of information out of them. John wanted a coffee stop so I suggested that we go to Cofield wineries as they had a lovely coffee shop called the "Pickled Sisters" we ordered our coffees and shared a Orange Dram Buie and Pistachio cheese cake to share. It was absolutely delicious.
We then headed off to Corowa where we walked around the town, it was very old and really not a lot there lots of junky shops. We went down to the Park for lunch which was quite nice and had a walk under this oneway bridge that was half new and made out of steel and the other half was really old and wooden as you can see by the photo. One side of the bridge was in NSW (wooden) and the other half in Victoria. We talked to an old guy who was fishing and took some photos of the Murray River which was really high and flowing quite fast.
Then is was time to go into Howlong, well there wasn't a lot there either, but we can say we have seen these places. We decided to go down the road to Morris Brothers winery and try a couple of ports and muscats. We ended up buying a couple of bottles, I am not sure how long they will last, especially if any of the other caravan parks are like this one, it just lends itself to sitting and chilling out looking over the beautiful water of an afternoon. So after a swim it was wine o'clock time again, (I know, I know it is a really hard life). Oooh well, do we really have to move on? I guess so or we will never find out what all the other places are like.
Well best sign off and get an early night for tomorrow we are heading off to Bendigo where we are staying at the showgrounds, not quite this place but you never know, that is what an adventure is all about.




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