Day 7 Wednesday 22/12/21 Chiltern, Warm 31 You really can’t go past bacon & eggs for breakfast made with the bacon we bought in Albury. P & K next door aren’t touring the area as their motorhome is all set … Continue reading A Chiltern Christmas – Day 7
Nine kilometres north of Rutherglen, Vic on Murphy’s Creek an anabranch of the Murray River is the 1880’s Police Paddocks reserve. It was here that the police once spelled their horses on the large grassy islands. We have a level … Continue reading Police Paddocks
The woman in the van beside us sings. She sings in the toilet, she sings in the van, she sings in the park. Her husband says that she sings in her sleep. I shouldn’t complain, she has a beautiful voice and she’s deliriously happy. …and with this view is it any wonder that she’s singing: Continue reading The Singer
Established in 1860 when gold was discovered. The name of Rutherglen was decided upon when a local publican offered to shout the bar if he could name the town after his hometown in Scotland. Wine making is the mainstay of this area now after having fought back from being wiped out by phylloxera. Famous for its fortifieds, sweet, sticky and unctuous they’re enough to warm a winters evening by the fire. So important is wine to this town that even the Information Centre has a licence to sell wine and a visit to pick up a few brochures can turn … Continue reading Rutherglen, the wine town
Rutherglen in Victoria’s north east is Australia’s oldest wine growing region. They’ve been growing wine since the late 1850’s. The climate can best be described as warm and dry and that warmth can be tasted in the lusciousness of its dessert wines. Continue reading A Delicious Drop
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