Day 133

Day 133 Tanunda

Well a quiet day today. The weather turned wet overnight so we did not expect to do much in the way

Old Church

Main street

of exploring. To start off with we went down town, I needed a cap for the hot water system to stop the water flowing following our event with the post at our last park. I went back to the van and fitted the cap whilst Maureen went for a wander down the main street. We met up at a bakery where we had lunch. We did decide to visit Bethany which is just up the road from us here and was established at the same time. We headed off into the hills and the town is really just a street of old homes and the range from early homestead style to the early 1930’s then the 60’s.

Old Museum

Old House

We went for a drive around the area and funnily enough ended up at Maggie Beers again. It was time for a cuppa so we settled down for a while. As we were about to leave, the announced that the free cooking demonstration was about to start, so off we went. Maggie has developed a product called verjuice. It is the result of crushing grapes that are not sweet enough for wine. It is a cross between wine and vinegar

Tea at Maggie Beers

Maggie eers

without the very sharpness of vinegar. She is the only one producing it commercially so she is keen to promote it. Unfortunately Maggie was not there but the guy who took it was great. He is a young guy who started work at the place 6 years ago doing the café work. Maggie took him on and had him do cooking courses and now he is training to be a teacher. He was very good at running the session and produced three dishes using the verjuice, one was pumpkin, one onions and one mushrooms. All the dished were yummy.

Cooking lesson

Maureen cooking at Maggies

Back to the van we went and the sun came out. We sat around and planned our trip home whilst enjoying the sun. We are about a week out from home so we sorted out the next steps. Tomorrow we head off to Ceduna.

Maureen cooking

Enjoying the results

Pheasant Farm

Enjoying the sun and Xmas Decorations