Victoria

YEA PEPPERCORN HOTEL

We’d been travelling most of the day, stopping here & there at fun spots that took our fancy & at one stage decided to wander through a Maze, which wasn’t as much fun in the blistering hot 30C+ temperatures as it sounded when we decided on such antics from the air-conditioned comfort of our car!  Note to Anna: make sure you bring water when venturing through Mazes on a hot day!!

Our road trip destination for the evening was to make it to Yea, a tiny little town that just happened to have a beautiful old pub with a big reputation to live up to, we arrived on dark & diligently followed the IPhone GPS’s instruction, even though it led us up a dirt road causing some concern, but, all of a sudden, there it was in front of us The Yea Peppercorn Hotel – promising a perfect country retreat. Continue Reading

A RANDOM NIGHT AT BEECHWORTH!

Have you ever stayed at Beechworth?  I’d never been there before & we were only going to ‘check it out’ on our way through, but being the last night of our holidays & in keeping with my holiday random night theory, I whipped out the iPad & started searching for somewhere interesting,  all the while entertaining Mr. HG about some of the cool random night accommodation Mom & I have had on our travels & the funny stories that always come from the experience of choosing somewhere different straight off the net.  And, then I found it…., it sounded amazing, so amazing I couldn’t figure out why I didn’t know about this place before.

This was the last day of our holidays, a week of tripping from wine region to wine region, sipping superb wines, dining in award winning restaurants and staying in heritage listed buildings that had been refurbished and bought back to life.  Beechworth is a town famous for it’s talented foodie folk, carefully restored colonial buildings, its 19th century streets showcasing an eclectic mix of galleries, collectables, handcrafts, old pubs, cafes, provedores, restaurants and a whole bunch more, & if that’s not enough for you folks, Beechworth promised a Brewery, a famous Bakery & Bees that make the most delicious honey. I mean everyone’s heard of Beechworth honey right? Continue Reading