Today we decided to go up to the Adelaide Hills, the weather wasn’t the best, however the sun was trying to break through, but it didn’t make much difference to the temp which hovered around the 10 deg mark.
We drove up to Bridgewater stopping off to have a look at the old water mill and to walk a little way along the 1200 km Heysen trail.
It was the off to Hahndorf. We had to revisit the Cedars, Hans Heysen’s historic home where he lived from 1912 until his death in 1968.
It which sits amongst many of the great trees that featured in his paintings. Having visited his house twice before we contented ourselves this time to just look around the book shop and an exhibition of some of Nora Heysens works being displayed in the studio she used whilst her father was still alive. As the village of Hahndorf was celebrating the Heysen Festival we drove there, parked the car, wrapped up against the cold wind and walked the main street visiting all the galleries and art exhibitions,
from the Heysen Prize competition at the academy which included some amazing body art,an outdoor lantern cinema and local bands just to mention a few things that were going on.
When it came for lunch we settled on having some hot soup and of course a stein of beer, at the Hahndorf Inn in the main street What a great atmosphere with the accordion being played and most of the guest joining the fun and singing and dancing to the typical German songs.. www.hahndorfinn.com.au
We had a great time and enjoyed it along with all the others who were there.
We ran back to the car in the rain, to have a further look around the Hills, driving up to Sterling and then back through some of the other villages.
Despite it having been a miserable day weather wise, we were once again quite taken by what we had seen of the Adelaide Hills District and will no doubt visit again sometime in the future.
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