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We took Tze to Swan Valley.
I voluntered to drive the car(!). But I didn’t drive home after few sips of wine.

Firstly, we stopped at Sandalford Winery.
It got nice view there. A bit commercialised, to my personal oppinion. Oh well, this is what tourist looking for, innit? =)

Blue sky, chilly breeze, winter sun.

This is the out door dinning area. Shamely, grapes don’t grow during winter. so all we could possibly spot was leaveless plant. =) Not so bad.

This is the retail area of Sandalford. Wine tasting is NOT FREE here. They even mention how much they are going to charge per head. Hehehe.. Oh well, it is not so good for those people who are trying to take advantages..

Me, Kian and Tze had a bit of wine tasting, and bought two bottles of Rose.*regret. It is slighly expensive compared to local bottle shops* Guess what? We didn’t get charged for it. Hmmm.. I guess we didn’t go overboard and we are good customer. =)

Ok, this is a tip. Don’t bother to try too much wines in a single winery as there are plenty of genuine wineries where you can go and ‘taste’ (not drink) the wines for FREE.

Another tip: If you are thinking of getting more than 6 bottles of wine, I personally think don’t purchase them in Swan Valley, ’cause it is quite expensive; you can always buy local wine in local bottle shops for greater deal. Look up Entertainment Book if Woolworth or Liquorland doesn’t have them on special. =) [ARgh! My heart is still aching for spending extra dollars! nb!]

By the way, always know your limit (refer here) and don’t drink and drive. It is dangerous =)

Note: some generous wineries do offer FREE cheese tasting! Look up the signboard as you drive. Ah!! I had quite abit of cheese, and I was wanting to buy them. Guess what? The cheese wasn’t on sale. OOpps.

Next stop: The Margaret Rover Chocolate Factory.

Yes, again, FREE chocolate tasting. =)

During my previous trip, there wasn’t any staff members standing next to the chocolate, and eyeing on the customers. But apparently, there are staff members acting like ‘Tua Pek Kong” (Tao ‘God’ statue) yielling at the kid: ENOUGH! You have enough chocolate, love!!!

Oh well, I guess there must be too many people helping themselves too freely with those yummy chocolate. But really, if they want to stop people from taking too much, why they give out such a big piles of chocolate? I wonder…..

I helped myself with a bit of chocolate. Moderate amount of cocoa and sugar is nice, if it is too much, it kills. =)

Those are the traffles…….
and traffles……

and traffles… and more chocolates!!!!

YES!!!!
Baby~!!!!

=)

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