Second trip to Hahndorf today was pretty rewarding with all the rain, chilling wind, fabulous experiences we get! Hahndorf is a very small town where the German dwells during the days, it is full with country style building on the main streets of Hahndorf. Famous for its Farm Barn, and ideal place for kids to hang around with friendly animals. Beerenberg jams are also production of Hahndorf. For food lovers, it is strongly recommended to enjoy a glass of ice chilled German beer with a German style dinner of German sausage platter in Hahndorf Inn where I have visited on my very first week in Adelaide.
It all started off with a freezing cold morning to Wan Ting, of course not me. Hehehe... Got ourselves ready to depart for Hahndorf by observing the dark clouds that are planning something really fishy on us.
Arriving in Hahndorf at we got ourselves drooling after looking at these sumptuous Queches in a bakery in Hahndorf. FYI Queches are pastries made from ham, tomatoes, eggs, and of course it has a pie like later of pastry. It can also be vegetarian. Just substitute eggs and ham with some vegetable you think you would love. The piece of Queche cost us $3.80, my Chunky Beef with Mushroom pie cost me $3.80 too. The Queche somehow tastes like ham omelet but it taste like a pie too, simply fabulous! The breakfast really kept our stomach warm. It got even better when a cup of hot chocolate runs down my throat, it ain't very good, a bit too sweet, but just accept it!
The one on the left is the pie and the one on right is the Queche
Next we took a stroll on the main streets of Hahndorf. The main streets the buildings are of a theme of country side and it is a peaceful village when nightfalls. Some shops do looks like those toy factories in the fairy tales, some are decorated luxuriously. We went for wine tasting, jam tasting, and lastly we got ourselves some truffles, Crazy Cashew and forgotten the name of the other! The fragrance of the cashew nuts still lingers in our mouth for more than 10 seconds even after we have swallowed the chocolate!
Not forgetting wine tasting, we had Pinot Noir 2007. It isn't a very expensive wine to me, but it is so smooth, there exist a balance between the fruitiness and the sourness in the wine! We also tasted the Tayberry jam! First time heard of that, but its just perfect to serve with crackers!
Next on is Hahndorf Beerenberg Strawberry farm, the famous jam producer of Australia, even in some of the airlines and hotels, they may serve you with Beerenberg jam too! No doubt they produce good jams, but they provide a very lousy strawberry farm for us to pluck and eat the strawberries, not only the strawberries are small, very scattered grow and it cost us $3 per head!
Look at that bottles of jam
Small lousy strawberries
Afterwards, we walked in the rain with all the chilling wind slowly for 30 minutes to the Hahndorf Farm Barn, entrance fees is $8 per head for concession! It is totally a rewarding experience! We get to play with guinea pigs, cuddle the lambs, sheeps and do some milking on the cow!
Smile! He got 8 teeth!
Milk the cow!
Super cute and naughty guinea pig, keep running around and did not allow me to cuddle it at all!
Ngek ngek... Gotcha!
These are the unprocessed wools.
Also we get to go outside the barn to the plains to watch animals roaming freely on the plains! There is the time Wan Ting got her lifetime experience, a deer gnawing her skirt as if she is wearing a grass skirt!
Look such beautiful deers.
Hold you position grass skirt girl! Good take!
Drink up the milk and get fat boy! I'll wait to slaughter ya.
After the farm barn visit, suppose we will go back to the wine tasting shop for a cheese board lunch, I really wanted to go for other wines too, it will cost us $15 for 2 person. But after a series of chilling wind and heavy rain in the bus stop without a shelter for 30 minutes, she ended up exhausted and we departs for town straight after the bus arrive.
