MINI HOLIDAY TO THE HUNTER VALLEY

Our village manager, owner and past owner organised a trip for the villagers to The Hunter Valley. The Hunter Valley is a famous wine region in the state of New South Wales. It is also the area where our new owners live and own hotels. 

Early one morning a coach arrived at our village where 29 of us with our manager Dana and our previous owner Chiou See boarded for a six day holiday. We set off south. After two hours we stopped at Warwick for morning tea.

We passed lots of cattle farms. We don't have high mountains in Australia because we are the oldest continent and they have all worn down. 

All meals were included in the price we paid for the trip.

We continued on to Tenterfield for lunch, after which we drove on to Armidale where we stopped for the night at Ridges Hotel. We had a very nice meal there of steak or fish. After breakfast there the next morning we boarded the coach again for an hour and a half to Tamworth. A town famous for its Country and Western festival. There is a huge guitar in town, where we stopped for a break and a coffee.

                                     Bill                                      Mandy

Back in the coach for another hour to Scone where we stopped for lunch at the local Lawn Bowls Club.

You know that you are close when there is one vineyard after another all along the way.

Finally we arrived at our destination.