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Mini break photos

Taking two nights to relax by myself was something I was really looking forward, a chance to chill, have some quiet time and focus my thinking. Having bought a Scoopon a few months ago, I booked into Authenticity Day Spa Resort on Thursday around 5.00 pm, just an hour’s drive from home in Happy Valley.

The 150 year old house has 3 bedrooms upstairs and I was shown to the yellow room with a lovely view over the surrounding vine yard, slippers (only footwear to be worn inside the house) and robe laid out, and heater on so the room was nice and cosy. Read More

It seems that we discovered a tradition of spending Australia Day at Horseshoe Bay, Port Elliot a little by accident as heaps of people, locals and those from Adelaide, go down there each year.

I had looked at a couple of options for a mini break and booked a cute 4 bedroom house called the Tin Shed through Dodd and Page. About an hour from my home in Adelaide we arrived at Horseshoe Bay on Wednesday around lunch time all decked out in our Australia Day gear.

Finding a spot on the busy beach with smells of BBQ’s and scenes of back yard cricket up on the grass we braved the huge waves for a swim and wave jumping (is that what it’s called?). Read More

Since the move to the sidewalk areas outside The Alma Hotel and Fino’s in Hill Street Willunga, as the market grew out of their original location, there have been quite a few changes. The new brand with the pitch fork logo, the introduction of the community membership scheme and the engagement of administration, book-keeping and marketing staff all demonstrate that this is a serious business.

The chair of the Willunga Farmers Market, Jude McBain says, “…we see ourselves [the committee] as managing a multimillion dollar business – it’s about people’s livelihoods. People put their trust in us as we have helped farmers to say goodbye to the packing shed and be brave by selling all their produce via the market.”
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There is a romanticism about wine, food and cellar door locations in South Australia that sometimes has me considering moving (or mini-breaking) to a regional location with beautiful views and growing my own produce or running a South Australian produce shop. So when I heard about South Australia’s First State Cellar Door Wine Festival in Adelaide from 25 – 27 February 2011 I had to go.

I reviewed the website, liked the Facebook page and knew that I could buy tickets at the door on Saturday afternoon so off we went – Aimee (my 19 year old daughter) and I. Held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, we bought our tickets, received our Passport with details of the 100+wineries by region, and festival wine tokens. Read More

Regional Development Australia Barossa recently advertised a Thinking Barossa forum headed with a question, Can we have it all?With a title like that it piqued my interest in regional development so I booked in online and looked forward to making the drive out along the new Northern Expressway and through the valley.

At late notice I decided to drive up to the Barossa Valley the night before the forum and I booked into the Novotel Barossa Valley Resort in Rowland Flat.  Arriving after dark I was happy to see the resort had been updated with a number of improvements from the last time I stayed there for a conference which was a few years ago now.  Read More