“The Wine Country” Gapostol’s photos around Tanunda, Australia
A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Tanunda, Australia by TravelPod blogger Gapostol titled “The Wine Country” Gapostol’s travel blog entry: “Wine, cheese and beautiful scenery are the three elements defining our experience in the South Australian wine country: the Clare and Barossa Valleys. Our first encounter with a different “world” than the endless desert was in Port Augusta, a small and rather charming port city situated at “Australia’s crossroads.” We reached the town at dusk and spent just a night and a few hours next morning there but we got enough time to visit the downtown, the piers and to open an account for free wireless Internet at the public library (in South Australia all public libraries offer free Internet once you open an account - even to tourists) so that we can check emails and talk back home. From Port Augusta to Clare Valley are only 130 miles/200 km (almost a walk in the park when compared to the 800 miles/1200 km we did in the previous two days) so we’ve decided to pace ourselves and use the smaller country roads instead of the highway. As we’ve have started driving, it is hard to imagine the change in scenery as soon as we’ve reached the Flinders Mountains: instead of the stony, red desert with puny bushes and rare wildlife that we were used to seeing for more than a week now, we were driving by endless golden wheat fields, green pastures, vineyards and beautiful, green trees. A picture straight out of Tuscany, we might add …
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