A bath and a glass of bubbles is how today ended…

Let’s start at the beginning.

We had breakfast in our apartment before heading our and traveling up the western side of the Tamar River.

Our first stop was the Tamar Valley Wine Centre.

The website said…
“The Tamar Valley Wine Centre is run in essence, like a cellar door with food, offering as many of the vineyards in the Tamar Valley as possible. The Centre promotes and sells many other craft beverages from across the region. It is a place of information where interstate and international tourists can learn more about the vineyards and their locations.”

I thought it would be much more of an information centre than it actually is.  Turns out it is a quite small room with an (admittedly impressive) wall of local wines and a cafe selling hot drinks and food.  I am sure the man behind the counter was very knowledgeable, but there were no maps or brochures on show.

The next stop was the Beaconsfield Mine Museum.  We had been in this area before in 2009, shortly after the mine accident in 2006 and it was very busy and felt a bit too soon to enter. 

Now that much more time has passed and the mine has now closed production, the whole site is now a museum of both the mine and the surrounding area.   There was, of course, a large display addressing the accident and the rescue of the two miners that were trapped for two weeks.

All in all we enjoyed our time here.

Lunchtime looming, we made our way to the Rosevears Hotel. We had an excellent meal overlooking the Tamar River.  The hotel has built some very nice looking accommodation units behind the hotel itself which look very nice.

After lunch, the next stop was Grindlewald Swiss Village.  We have been here before too and have heard that it was getting a bit old and tired, and indeed it is 🙁.

As you might notice from the photos, it was uite overcast, but we did not et any rain

We had a look around while enjoying an ice cream before getting back in the car and off to our next stop.

Woolmers  Estate is a UNESCO heritage listed site that represents Australia’s best preserved colonial farm.  I was really looking forward to seeing the many buildings and the National Rose Garden.  Read all about Woolmers here.

You can imagine my disappointment when we arrived at the gates to find they were CLOSED 😢

Back to the Mantra and I remembered that we are supposed to get complimentary drinks that we had not used. I got two little single bottles sparkling wine.

That is how we made it to end the day with “Bubbles and a Bath”

Tomorrow we fly home via Melbourne, leaving Launceston at 10:20am.