March 2006
In true Parfitt fashion nothing quite goes to plan. We had every intention of leaving Albany by Friday or Saturday at the absolute latest but didn't end up leaving until the Monday. This was due in part to the long weekend (difficult to get into most places) and also because we discovered that there was to be a wine festival on Sunday at Porongurup which is only 40 kms from Albany. It sounded like fun so off we went. You know its time to move on when you go to a festival and bump into 3 groups of people you know. One lot (Geoff and Alison) we met on the road, Stuart, the guy form the plastics shop (great shop!) and the other was Wayne and his family (from the Aluminum shop). Almost locals already. It was a really good social day with a dozen or more wineries present, live music, food stalls, and all sorts of entertainment including grape stomping competitions. It was a lovely warm summer's day with a cloud free sky, set in a gorgeous vineyard, in a pretty country town, in th...