Another beautiful morning in the Melbourne suburbs and today we were heading into the Yarra Valley and a town called Healesville, a former starting point for Woods Point goldfield.
The Yarra Valley is home to many wineries but that is a blog for another day. Healesville is home of the Four Pillars gin distillery. Before heading to the distillery we went for a little walk and grabbed a coffee. Once in the distillery I did a gin flight, a taste of 4 of their different gins. The four pillars gin, the navy strength, the negroni and the bloody shiraz. The navy strength was probably my favourite but not sure drinking a 58.8% gin on a Friday evening would do anything for me the following day 😂. Whilst trying the gin we had a snack of some feta stuffed olives in breadcrumbs. I feel I could easily pull those off in the air fryer 🤤🤤.
As you can see Betty also made it to the distillery and was observing the bottle process. From here we went to Monroes for a burger, I went for an Ay Carumba which had jalapeños, hot sauce and cheese. It was delightful, nothing beats a decent burger, as long as you don’t eat them everyday 😂.
I had noticed next door that there was a cheese shop, so I bought some cheese for another day along with a local bottle of Pinot Noir. I will let you know about the cheese at a later point but one had been soaked in whiskey, I will need to do more research about this one when I try it. From Healesville we headed home as Noah managed to get himself to sleep in the car ✅. The weather was still lush, so we had a little seat out on the terrace and then walked Harvey whilst Noah had another nap. In the midst of all that it was A-Level results day, so logging on at 5pm Australian time rather than 8am England time was a novelty. I was happy with the results so celebrated with a glass of red before bed.
Another great day, and it’s crazy that I’ve only got a week left in Aus, I could happily stay here that’s for sure.
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