The house was beautiful! A fully self contained 3 bedroom cottage about 7kms out of the town centre with its own vineyard. The views were beautiful and my favourite bit was watching the cows outside the kitchen window whilst cooking and washing up :)
There was a gorgeous deck out the back complete with hammocks and a BBQ. Oh and did I mention breathtaking views???
Anyway so Friday we explored the place and went out for dinner and basically just relaxed.
Saturday we went on a wine tour. We went with Mudgee Wine & Country Tours and had the best time!! Jan was lovely, made sure we had cheese and bikkies to clean out pallette after each winery and filled us up with bits of Mudgee trivia and gossip :) We went to 8 wineries and in total we bought 12 bottles. Cant wait to crack some of those open! If you head to mudgee and want to go on a bus tour to the wineries, I highly recommend Mudgee wine and Country tours!!
I love this photo of all the old vats:
Travis and I bought our bikes along, however there were these huge spike things in the grass which we werent warned about... of course all of our tyres went flat within about 10 minutes! LOL
On the Sunday we had another relaxing day, drove to Gulgong to wander around the town there, came back to mudgee for lunch, had a relax in the afternoon and watched the football and then went to Thai for dinner.
Jen booked a cab to get us at 6:45 as the booking was for 7:00pm, using the directions stated in the guestbook. Its only a new place, near the edge of town. So we are all ready, all 4 of us waiting out the back of the house, where we can see the highway and the long long driveway. We see a cab approach.. and then hoon past... go down the dirt road. Stop. Reverse. drive forward. Reverse. Turn. Go into someone ELSES driveway and stop. Jen rings up the cab company, and suddlenly is giving the driver directions. We were thinking wow, how neat that you actually get to talk to the driver! So she's going ok turn around. Keep going about 500m then turn right. Yep keep going. Um I think you've gone past it. Yep, cant see your lights. LOL Meanwhile Gregs in the background giving more directions, Jens telling him to shush and Travis and I find it funny. So the driver FINALLY finds the driveway, and says yep, got it.. and hangs up. Well, we told him to keep to the right and take the right-hand driveway, but he didnt. SO another phone call, more directions and finally we get in :)
So we are in there chatting away to the lovely driver having a bit of a laugh. Suddenly we hear over the two way radio, a lady ringing up to book a cab.. we all look at each other. We ask so... does that mean OUR conversation just then was broadcast? The driver goes "Yep! and all of Mudgee just heard you".
A few hours later we finish our delicious thai and hopped into the first cab on the rank. A different driver. We say we are going to Jessicas guest house. He laughed and said Oh its you lot!! Dont worry, I know exactly how to get there.. past the concrete wall, righ driveway.. no sweat. Apparently this guy had 4 male passengers at the time who were having a great laugh at the conversation :)
ANyway we left bright and early on the monday and managed to beat all the traffic and was home at 11:00 :) nice!
1 comment:
Wow looks like you had heaps of fun. Did you try the Mudgee white port? I had some years ago that a friend brought home from a trip up there. I havent had or seen it since. They may not have it anymoe but I LOVED IT!
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