1/6/2022 – Wednesday – 73km

We slept in this morning, it was so peaceful after the last two nights of howling wind & rain bucketing down.

It was cool & sunny with blue skies first up for our walk around Hahndorf village. The old town is built along the road & it is a fair walk from one end to the other with many old stone buildings converted to shops, cafes, bars, restaurants, boutique accommodation etc. There is a real eclectic mix of businesses. The old buildings are mostly well looked after & restored, with a real old German look. After our walk we have morning tea & warm up next to the fire with a German Beesting & apple strudel.

A drive through the countryside, on Onkaparinga Scenic Drive, passing some beautiful old villages with more nice old stone buildings on the way to Birdwood. The old gum trees along the side of the road look really good & the grass is so green compared to what we have been seeing on the Yorke Peninsula. At Birdwood we stop at the National Motor Museum, old cars & motor bikes including a collection of the first & last Holden car off the production line & a lot of Holden concept cars that did not make it to production. We spend a few hours in the motor museum & reminisce about some of the cars on display. A few nice old motorbikes caught my eye. There is an interesting story of Tom Kruse, the mailman on the old Birdsville Track & a restored truck that he once drove.

Back to Hahndorf enjoying the drive through the countryside again. I had a video conference again. Afterwards it was time for dinner at the old German Arms Hotel & some German style meals washed down with a beer from Munich in Germany. Tereza had a selection of German sausages with sauerkraut & I had pork Jaeger schnitzel with sauerkraut, both very nice & very filling. Back to camp after another great day.