Today was all about wine....and even better FREE wine! We started early heading out to the Barossa valley north of Adelaide. El was very animated about all the amazing wineries in the Adelaide vicinity (or cellar doors as they refer to them); so we felt it only polite to visit as many as possible and enjoy feeling posh for a day, pretending we actually knew something about wine! We smelt the wines and selected those we'd like to sample, swishing them in the glass first before moving it about our palettes, talking rather intellectually to the hosts about how oakey it tasted or the hint of liquorice etc!! Naah....we just said they all tasted bloody good and we'll try a bit of them all please!! What was great was that at each winery there was no pretentiousness and no expectation or pressure to purchase anything. They seemed more than happy to offer us further samples. El very kindly drove us round but after the first 2 wineries I was definitely a little bit tipsy - I'd probably had no more than 2 small glasses in total by then but drinking before midday was a first for me! The fisrt place we stopped was called Orlando vineyard and home of the internationally recognised Jacob's Creek selection. It was fab to look round their visitors centre and see where the wine that ends up on our supermarket shelves back in the UK actually comes from. We got the obligatory photo taken next to the picturesque Jacob's Creek itself. The Barossa valley was simply stunning with its rolling hills, colourful flowers in bloom and seas of lush green grape vines. The second cellar door was called Rockfords,and an entirely different experience to the commercial Orlando cellar door. It was small and intimate with wine tasting in an atmospheric oldy worldy cellar. El was v excited about the sparkling Shiraz which had just been released (sounds like a strange combo but it worked amazingly well). The chap at Rockfords told us about another vineyard up the road which had a restaurant and did kangaroo steak on a bed of red cabbage to die for. That was it - Scott and I were then sold on trying the kangaroo and we were not disappointed in the slightest. The meat was beautifully tender and just fell apart in your mouth. We said it was even better than Scott's mum's lamb roast and that is saying something!! (sorry Lea) After lunch and a further tasting we were just about done in and headed back towards Adelaide to catch the atmosphere of central market before it closed. As the evening took hold we wandered through the CBD to the stunning botanical gardens where we were delighted to see brightly coloured parakeets washing in the water fountain!

Dinner was a picnic style affair back at El's flat of cheeses, chilli jam and crackers followed by refreshing watermelon. It had been a wonderful day and I vowed to begin my diet the next day after the amount of calorie consuming!