got up damn early yesterday! around 7.30 or so? Ridiculously cold morning! bad idea to go to sleep in t-shirt and shorts! My warm doona didn't protect me once i got out of bed to a fresh 15degrees or so, and immediately started shivering! i took a warm bath to counter the cold! the warm bath worked wonders :)
Breakfast was a pretty heavy bacon, eggs, baked beans, and peanutbutter/jam toast x2 :) AWAESOME. Anyhow we went on our way around 10am, to a busy busy day!
First stop was Christmas hill. We visited a raspberry farm which was nice a big, with a cute cafe at the front. The cafe sold everything raspberry that u can think of. Crumble, cake, icecream, chocolate covered raspberries...the lot. After walking around a pond and plucking at some blackberries, and treating myself to some raspberry ice cream, i found the place a bit of a drag and it was time to burn some fuel!!!!!
Raspberry ice cream from Christmas hill. Homemade ice cream FTW :)
Next we drove for about 15 minutes to a place called Ashgrove Cheese farm! The cheeses here have been matured for something like 15months or something, but although everyone loved the cheeses, i realized i dun quite like it. Not salty enough lol. After taking photos with a few decorated cows (this leads to an amazing lesson i learnt, from grandma no less), it was time to move to the chocolate factory. Time was tight today.
decorated funky cows.
Mature room - where cheeses are wrapped in some black cloth and left to mature....for 15 months at least.
Something cool about Ashgrove cheese farm was it was often visited by school from around the area. Imagine that! excursion to the cheese farm! pity we don't have this in Singapore. Photo is a boot decorated by some kids who visited.
We drove and drove for about 20 minutes, turning into a township called Latrobe. Before long the sign that read 'House of Anvers'. Look what i found! It had such an amazingly pretty garden with so many healthy and colourful flowers!! so so so so super pretty. The factory was unfortunately closed because it was "recreation day". Tsk..australia and their holidays..
One great thing about australian farms, is that they always let u sample their products. Awesome :) Singapore (and koreans too says Sunny) can never resist a free snack! ho ho ho!
Butterscotch and hazelnut was exquisite, but very very rich and something u can easily have too much off (unlike choc iced conuts). It was also madly expensive! gourmet chocolates indeed.
Super pretty flowers. My desktop now dons this photo!
Chocolate eggs in preparation for easter. The whole factory area was empty! Public holiday in Australia.
My chocolate delivery truck.
Next we moved for lunch! a half an hour drive up to devonport, where the Spirit of Tasmania docks. Found ourselves a nice picnic spot and went to the town to buy some fish and chips! Unfortunately, because it was a public holiday, everything was closed! After walking around randomly, and asking some passers-by to no avail, we stumbled upon the devonport visitor centre. Ken risked his reputation by walking into the visitor centre to enquire on the availability of Fish and Chips in the vicinity. The lady said there wasn't any fish and chips open in town because of the public holiday, but we could try bizzi bee!
They served Fish and chips and also some wraps. If u are in tasmania, devonport and u need a snack, i will recommend it. The scallops in the seafood basket are easily the best i've had in a long long while! So succulent and full of taste, and the batter was good stuff! Don't be fooled by the shoddy appearance of the outlet and the packaging. T'was quite a meal! Anyways, after lunch by the beach, and a stroll up to the lighthouse with Ken and Sunny, where i took some photos, we walked back down, and it was time to head home, with ken having tennis at 5.30PM.
Awesome battered fish and chips & Seafood baskets. Best i had in years. Grilled salmon could be better.
Our picnic view. Seagulls waiting to pick our food included.
Beautiful Cliff. Beautiful colours.
Just an amazing view. The sun was super bright on the day, and you gotta love the reflection from the never-ending waters.
Ken and Sunny at the lighthouse.
I used Ken's guitar and learnt how to play 'when you're gone' by avril lavigne from ultimate guitar together with itunes music. You'd never know when songs like these come in handy! It's a nice song too.
Soon enough, dinnertime arrived, and it was the best of the nights of korean dishes. I am now a true fan of korean food. I like tak daritang!!! and the twenjangchige is freaking nice! i dunno if it's the way sunny cooked it or it's always nice....BUT I AM A CONVERT! korean food rules!!! haha. took some time off to upload and edit photos, and then sleep. The next day i had to wake up at 7.45..pack and leave home at 9, and take the bus back to Hobart!
A good road trip this weekend that passed :)
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