Adam had booked a lovely cottage for my birthday present. The people who owned the farm we stayed on were really friendly, and had a funny labradoodle who wanted to play all the time; we were her friends forever after we gave her a bit of bacon in the morning!
We went out to a few of the vineyards a did a bit of wine tasting and bought a few bottles! Found one lovely estate, the Wandin Valley, which we might join as members. There's no joining fee, you just buy 6 bottles every 3 months for a discounted price, then you can stay there for free for a few nights a year. They also invite you up to pick the grapes and stamp around on them which sounds like fun! The Fatso's Revenge red we particularly liked - tasted nice and I always like a bottle with a nice picture on the bottle ;-)
It is quite an isolated area though, you definitely need a car to get around (or book a bus trip if you're going to taste a lot of wine!) . But there are a lot of tourists and we realised to late that we should have booked in somewhere for Saturday dinner.
I really enjoyed the horse riding at Hill Top. We saw loads of grey kangaroos in the fields which felt proper Australian. We tried trotting a few times, I'm sure mine was galloping though, it felt very fast to me! ;-)
