Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Barmera Bakery - Barmera (SA)

Day 4 we entered the great state of South Australia.  A state home to magnificent wines, farmer's union ice coffee and a freeway that can only go in one direction.  As we crossed the border into SA I instantly got to experience there unique take on road infrastructure.  We crossed over a bridge in Parminga which I had to squeeze my car through on one lane.  It would have been crazy to make it wider.

After an early start to the morning we needed a break and a bite to eat and pulled into the town of Barmera.  There we found the Barmera Bakery which had been baking for 4 generations.  It was a nice little bakery with a great selection of pies and cakes.  I grabbed a meat pie and as I pulled it out of the brown bag I realised it was square.  Thoughts of Macca came back to me saying he never found a good pie in SA and I was hoping to find one on my trip.

I have to say again like Hay it was disappointing they didn't make it round.  The temperature was perfect, the beef and gravy were very tasty and the pastry melted in your mouth.  But it was square.  A nice try but I had to give it 5/10.  Now Hazel had one of their sausage rolls and I would recommend one of those.  The filling was nice and light with a mixture of meat and veggies.  While I sampled Hazel's sausage roll, Heidi was getting her hands on the little milk pot for the tea and getting her daily fix.  We finished off our stop with a bakery classic, the cream bun.  Hazel hadn't had one like this before, the round bun with the cream oozing out and some jam smack bang in the middle.

It was time to hit the road again and we headed to the barossa valley.  We stopped at Murray st vineyards for a tasting and lunch.  While Hazel and I sampled some lovely reds and a cheese platter, Heidi was making a mess of the cellar door.  We ordered up our wine (I just need to make sure my Dad doesn't drink it before we get to Perth) and we prepared to head to Mel and Tony's in the Adelaide Hills.

Hazel and I had to laugh when driving into Adelaide.  As we drove through the classy suburb of Elizabeth, we spotted a food delivery truck in front of us.  We laughed so hard when we saw that to advertise a mobile lunch van you've got to have a a cartoon character of a big boob lady serving up food.  "Get it Fresh".

We got to the Adelaide Hills and it was great catching up with Mel and Tony again.  Heidi particularly loved the new location with so many more rooms to explore and items to throw over the floor.  We now have three days in Adelaide so looking forward to checking out Hahndorf, have a pie floater and a farmers union ice coffee stubby.

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