Wine Tour

Went on a Barossa Valley Wine Tour today.

We stopped a couple of times for breaks during the trip to the Barossa so we could take a break.

The first was the Largest Rocking Horse/Toy Factory.

Unusual Toilet Signs

The tour visited the following wineries

Wolf Blass

Kaesler

Grant Burge @ Krondorf

We stopped at a lookout so we could take in a view of some of the Barossa.

Kies Family Winery

Also had lunch at the Vine Inn at Nioopta.

Only a small bus (16 people). So it was easy to get to taste a good selection of wines at each winery.

The tour guide (and driver) Hana was very knowledgable about the region and the wine making process (Trained as a wine maker).

A variety of people on the tour Australians (two others from Hobart),UK,Canada and Sweden so it was an interesting group to spend the day with.

On the way back to Adelaide we stopped at the Whispering Wall which a water storage dam where the you can stand at side of the dam and whisper and be heard on the other side. Just the same as the whispering gallery at St Paul's in London.

The tour company drops you back where they picked you up which was good so I didn't have to walk far in the heat.

As the day was so hot I just retreated to the hotel room after getting back from the tour and ordered room service for dinner and started to pack.

The tour company has other tours of South Australia so I will probably be booking some of those when I am there in April next year for OzComiccon.

Supanova Sunday

Went to the Supanova Convention today

The first thing for today was  Terry Molloy's talk. He is a very talented actor. He kept the audience entertained for 45 minutes. He did a reading of speech by as Davros and it is quite a chilling performance.

Had lunch between these talks.

Went on to the George R R Martin interview. He is certainly interesting.

Moved onto to Zoie Palmer and she was very entertaining.

She was joined by Sean Maher (Firefly) near the end of her Q&A as he was up next in that room.

Decided to stay and watch his talked instead of going to Dominic Monaghan who was on in another location.

Moved onto Michelle Fairley Q&A.

I decided to call it a day and walked back to the and then went to the pub (Elephant and Castle) down the road for dinner.

Am going on a Wine tour tomorrow before flying back on Tuesday.

Supanova Saturday

Great first day at Supanova in Adelaide.

Got all of the autographs and photo's that were included in my ticket

Photo's and Autograph's

Dominic Monaghan - Lost and FlashForward and Lord of the Rings

All of his photo shoots conflicted with other things that I wanted to do

Lena Headey 

She couldn't attend Adelaide but they gave all of the VIP ticket holders an autographed photo. Choice of Games of Thrones or Sarah Connor.

Virignia Hey - Farscape

Terry Molloy and Dalek - Davros in Doctor Who

Zoie Palmer - Lost Girl

Michelle Fairley - Game of Thrones

Gary Jones - Stargate SG1

Also went to Garry Chalk's (Stargate SG1) talk. He is a very talented vocal artist and does lot of voice work for animated shows.

They had a cocktail party for the VIP ticket holders at La Boheme in Central Adelaide. Most drinks were on the convention. Quite crowded when all of the VIP and guest were present.

Walked back to the hotel to clear my head.

The Adelaide showgrounds are more modern and has airconditioning that was coping with the temperature outside and the large crowd.

The advantage of the VIP pass is to get to the front of every queue (Photos and Autograph) and front row seating in all of the talks. But you then have to wait for the next activity to start.

They certainly did pretty well in the food catering for the attendee's. Plenty of food vendors  on the site so the queues were reasonably short.

Supanova Adelaide Opening Night

Went to the opening of Supanova Adelaide last night (friday).

Went to an interesting talk about tintin (herge) after the opening.

Adelaide

On my way to adelaide for Supanova for the weekend. Back late tuesday.