Leg 7 - Barossa and Adelaide Hills

 After the Yorke Peninsula we went across to the Barossa Valley, one of the first successful wine regions in Australia.  There are about 55 wineries in the area.  The region is steeped in history with a lot of old historic buildings, lovely old Lutheran churches.  The Adelaide Hills area is similar. On the way we drove through a pretty town called Henley Bridge.  The main street was lined with trees all in bloom with purple flowers.

We had a drive into Adelaide then out to the Adelaide Hills for lunch.  Adelaide Hills is known for it's fresh produce, wines and homemade goods like jams, pickles, chocolate and German products. We stopped in an historic German village called Hahndorf.  Hahndorf is the oldest non-British settlement in the area and Australia's oldest Germanic settlement. It was established by Lutheran refugees from Prussia in 1838. The town still has most of the original 19th century buildings lining the main street.  It was beautiful.  There are German butchers, bakers and traditional German gift shops. We spent ages there just wandering round the main street.

We visited a few wineries in the Barossa Valley.  Chateaux Tanunda and Sepelts were well worth the visit and we had a carton of wine shipped home from the Chateaux Tanunda. A lot of the wineries specialise in fortified wines which made a nice change from the usual Merlots and Reislings etc. We also went to Maggie Beers farm shop and bought some delicious pate and some vervuice.  A drive up Menglers hill to the lookout gave us a good view of the valley and vineyards We had 4 nights in the area and managed to find plenty to do.