Sunday, 3 August 2025
After our night in Adelaide City we packed up again to start heading north today towards our ultimate destination for this holiday, the Flinders Ranges. But first we had time to meet up with Meredith and Greg again for breakfast. Their favourite breakfast spot, Diaspora Kouzina, is located just a few doors away from TRYP so it was very convenient for us.
We agreed to meet at 9.30am which was not a minute too soon with the hoards descending on the cafe from about 9.45am onwards. Most city cafes are only open on weekdays for the office workers, so the couple of cafes that open at the weekend are well patronized. The breakfast menu had so many delicious items on it it was difficult to decide. Although the pancakes, waffles and French toast sounded AMAZING, we both opted for savoury options involving eggs. Bernie’s fried, sunny side up with bacon while I opted for the smashed avo with feta and a poached egg, with a side of bacon. I thought a side of Barossa bacon for $7.00 seemed pricey but when it arrived it was a mountain of bacon so … worth it! Delicious bacon too.
After breakfast we said our final farewells to Meredith and Greg for this Adelaide stopover and set the SatNav for the Woolworths at Gawler. Syri took us straight up the Northern Expressway (A20) before directing us into the car park at Woolies. We purchased fruit and some other ingredients for making our own breakfasts and lunches over the next few days.
With all our food stowed in the truck, it was time to find fuel again. Today we were able to find a BP Servo so that Bernie could top up with Ultimate Diesel. The truck will now have a cocktail of Shell V-Power and BP Ultimate Diesel in its tank! While we were at the servo we saw a guy filling his classic Leyland P76 before he roared out with all eight cylinders firing. You don’t see many P76s about these days.
Driving on the A20 (now the Sturt Highway) we continued to the Visitor Information Centre in Tanunda. We collected the Town Walk of Tanunda map and asked the volunteer staffing the information centre this afternoon for his tip on the best ice-cream in town. We had decided that after our big breakfast we would not need lunch, per se, but would totally need ice-cream to get us through until dinner time. Across the square to Barossa Beans and Cream we were told, without question the best ice-cream in town.
Map in hand we made our ice-cream purchases then sat on a bench in the square, with the sun on our backs, to enjoy them. We were looking across the street to the Old Fashioned Sweet Shop with a huge picture of liquorice all sorts on the wall. Do you like liquorice all sorts? I asked Bernie. Hmmn, dumb question, Bernie pretty much likes ALL sweets. So, we’re sitting there looking at liquorice all sorts and a woman walks past wearing a jumper that is striped … just like a liquorice all sort!!! If I hadn’t been busy eating ice-cream I could have taken a picture of that, ha, ha.
We completed our walk around the town admiring all of the gorgeous stone cottages. They are so pretty. The Tanunda Hotel, made with Angaston marble and lacework imported from England, is also impressive as are the Tabor, Langmeil and St John’s Lutheran Churches. And those three places of worship are only the ones included on the map! Later we also found St Paul’s Lutheran Church, when we walked further along Murray Street, and St Aidan’s Anglican Church when we drove to the Discovery Park to find our tent for tonight.
Yes, we didn’t get enough glamping in Africa, so Bernie booked us a tent for tonight in Tanunda! On our journey from Melbourne we have been mixing up our accommodation styles trying out country motel, city hotel and now, a ‘tent’. Mind you tonight’s tent comes with a kitchenette and an ensuite and is considerably larger than last night’s compact hotel room. Most importantly though, a king size bed AND reverse-cycle air conditioning!! We are facing a bit of a walk back into town for dinner but our earlier stroll did not earn us our Exercise Goal for today, so a brisk walk to dinner and back should do the trick!
It was just over a kilometre back into town where we ate at Char Barossa. With a name like that we obviously had to choose steaks for dinner. We both ordered a 200 gram eye fillet. Bernie chose three peppercorn sauce and I chose the caramelised onion butter to go with … and a garden salad and a bowl of fries to share. We resisted dessert then hoofed it back to the Discovery Park achieving both our Move and Exercise goals on the way.
With the overnight temperature dropping into single figures and only canvas walls between us and the night we might have to leave the heating on all night?? Tanunda Creek runs through the park so we are going to be sung to sleep by frogs tonight. They’re very loud atm. And … in the morning I suspect we will be woken by sulfur-crested cockatoos???
Steps: 12,258 (8.18kms)
