Hoorah, I am feeling like my normal self again, after a couple of days feeling pretty s***ty. Life goes on, and so do I. Today i had an early start, because there was a bus from Go West waiting at my door at 8.15 am this morning. I was the first to be picked up from a group of 19 people to taste wines and cheeses with this tour.

Everyone else was with other people, with two or more but luckily they talked to me too, so no need to feel lonely. The day started with tasting fruit juice and fresh fruits from a fruit farm. Perfect for me so I had a fresh fruit breakfast there. It was one of those nice warm days again, 35 degrees and not a single cloud in the sky. After this fruity experience we made our way to the first winery of De Bartoli, originally from Italy, bu now for 3 genereations in Australia already and a well known winery in the Yarra valley. They gave us a sparkling wine, two whites, two reds and finished off with a desertwine, very sweet. Don't think you'll get drunk of this, it's only a few sips per wine. ;) Lovely too that we got to eat french cheese on crackers with it. Who cares it's only 10 in the morning? ;)

Before we'd go to our lunchbreak, we went to visit a dairy farm, to taste 5 of their cheeses. Not bad at all, although buying something doesn't make sence for me, I have to fly to Alice Springs tomorrow. The lunchbreak was at the second vineyard, the one of Rocheford. Lovely wines combined with a lunch. Some spanish cheese croquette as an appatizer, guided by a white wine, then a maincourse of slowcooked beef, guided by a rosé wine, and to finish a raspberry-chocolate pie with a red desert wine. Stuffed and filled I went for a walk over their vineyard, before entering our bus again

The guide dropped us off in the little center of Healesville, giving us the chance to shop a bit or to visit a brewery. I went to a supermarket to get a cold drink and sat in the park for an hour. So nice to be people watching, and I even discovered some tenniscourts. Shame I had nobody to hit a ball with :(.

Back on the bus there was one more vineyard to visit for us, the one that was the most pittoresque of all. We got to taste 6 wines, although it went a bit too fast for me to taste them properly. I still do love the red wines though, even here in Australia. :). I went outside for a bit to take some pics of an american woman and her daughter, and they took some of me, so there's the proof that we tasted wines today. Unfortunately this was the end of the tour already, and we headed back to Melbourne.

The group was very internationnal again, and guess what? We had two swiss on the bus who were too proud of Wawrinka, we had a couple of New Zealand who have been at both the finals and some australians who tried to convince me to stay in Australia, because they thought I really had a good time. Truth is, I had a good time for sure, but I am also sure that I would miss my tennistrips too much during the year. So I better continue with my travel, and go to Ayers Rock tomorrow.

Speaking of that big red thing, yes, I am excited!! I can't wait to see that rock, to feel it, to walk around it, to see it at sunrise and sunset, to have some amazing days out there. BEcause after that, I've got a week to go discovering the Cairns to Airlie beach part and then it's back to reality and back to the cold. I don't mind going back to the tennis in Rotterdam, I am just a bit scared of the temmperature difference and how it will affect me. Today we had 35 degrees here, I am not sure how to adjust to the cold...

Well, I hope you notice in my blog too that all goes well here down under. I'm feeling the happy me again, the me who looks forward to things to come. Always need a bit of time to find myself back, but hey, as long as I get the space to do so, no worries mates! ;)