Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Hanging Ten!
Today we set ourselves a challenge - to blag 10 free things each (oh, and to watch the surfing competition too) hence the incredibly tediously-linked title! Apologies.Fortunately we are staying in the heart of a wine region with over 50 vineyards and it was only polite that we try to visit as many of them as possible. Unfortunately for them though, we had absolutely no intention of parting with any money. Free wine-tasting is quite common here so we felt confident of 'achieving our objective' (a little something for all you teachers out there!)
We amazed ourselves with our ability to waffle on about aromas, vintage, palettes etc before grasping the opportunity when the staff had their backs turned of bolting out the door unashamedly, wallets untroubled. I expect they saw us coming as in the first place all I could manage in response to the question "what type of wine do you like?" was "Red".
The fudge shop was guilt-free though as the fudge is layed out for you in a kind of 'grab & run' arrangement.
Lets just say that 10 freebies is easy to achieve around here. If you had more time and someone to drive your car for you 40 free tastings would not be a problem and you still wouldn't need to part with any cash.
"Surf's up Dude" "It's Gnarly" "Ride the Tube"
We've been to watch some of the Margaret River Pro Surfing competition today. Unfortunately, as I had suspected when I had glanced out of the window this morning, today was not an ideal day for surfing. We arrived late, due to not being able to get up very early, and managed to catch the last 3 heats of the day. Set to the background tune of the Beach Boys the commentators talked through the moves and announced the various scores that the surfers were getting. We had absolutely no idea what was going on but the general theme was that today wasn't a good day to get a high score. But it was fun to watch and we might pop back to watch some more when the weather conditions improve.
