Lush Sundays spent with friends are beyond
wonderful. Seriously, you should try it! A couple of Sundays ago Clare and I
had a house guest (hey Hil!) so the three of us decided we should spend Sunday treating
ourselves and we went for a drive. We were hunting wine and cheese and cute
towns with little shops – and boy did we find them!
Our first stop with in the small town of Woodend,
a gorgeous little gold-mining town near the Macedon Ranges north of Melbourne. It
is just a gorgeous little place and as we strolled along looking into shops (and
drooling over homes in the windows of the local real estate agents) we could
not have been calmer. It was also pretty cool weather- wise so it was nice to
rug up for the first time and it felt cozy and relaxing to be walking around.
By the way if you’re ever in Woodend, you
should make a point at stopping into the brilliant second hand book shop there –
we each bought a couple of books and it has a really wonderful collection of
books of all genres. Plus, we got to
support a local business in a small country town, which is always good karma!
From Woodend the hunt for lunch started and
we headed to a small winery nearby called Kyneton Ridge Estate. Like many small
family-run wineries in Australia it was down a dirt road and the path was also
redirected because of bushfire damage. Once we got there however, it was
picture perfect. A small number of vines rolling down the hill and a large sun-soaked
deck. We got a table – ordered a bottle of sparkling and some baked bri and
prawns and spent the good part of the next two hours there enjoying it all.
It was a lovely day out, nothing too big
but a great reminder that often relaxing holiday-type things are completely
doable when you have a lazy Sunday and some amazing friends.
5/5 bottles of bubbles
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