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Oh my goodness, look, we've got one coming to say hi.

Hey, mate.

Hi, mommy.

Hey, guys, welcome back to Australia.

We have been home for the last month, enjoying our time in WA, but we thought this weekend, let's go on a little family getaway,

and this morning, we are flown to South Australia.

They have the cutest little hair ever.

Have you ever seen sheep so fluffy?

Our day started bright and early at 4am

so we could catch our 7am flight over here

if you guys are wondering adelaide is almost our closest city at a three hour flight all those europeans

and americans there is absolutely nothing between perth and adelaide

so this was the closest city we could go to for a getaway we're in the countryside it is

so beautiful and i cannot wait to explore this part of south australia all All right,

we've just arrived we're staying at the Novotel in Barossa Valley the drive -in was

so beautiful It's only an hour from the airport.

We're here in the winter It is so green

and lush right now There were just fields of sheep canola flowers just making the fields all yellow gorgeous, isn't it?

Are you excited to have the weekend here?

Yes!

So excited to do my arts and crafts.

I like my gems.

Oh yes, she's brought lots of arts and crafts.

We're having a, I think it was just a winter trip.

We've decided we're going to be chilling, doing arts and crafts, exploring the area.

We have lots of exciting things planned.

But Stevie's gone inside, he's checking us in.

Then we get to see where we're staying and we're going to have family night tonight, aren't we?

Yes.

See you later, alligator.

Later.

There you go.

Ooh.

Can we have a look?

Ooh, it looks like we have a nice little view.

Ooh, a little cheese board.

That's cute.

Oh my gosh, the kids are gonna be excited.

And we can do it.

I can't have some bugs.

Hunter, look.

They got a cheese board with like chocolate and strawberries and cookies.

I wanna have a chocolate.

Here, do you want to open them up?

This is what we do in the Barossa Valley.

Oh yeah, you eat local food.

Oh my gosh.

Oh, there's chocolate.

Oh look, there's chocolate and cookies and strawberries and cheese.

That's nice.

Oh, there's like a little kid room.

Stop, the little hats are a bit cute.

All right, I feel like you need to wear this.

Okay, there we go.

Got my hat for the weekend.

It's nice, get to see the Aussie bush.

Sunrise should be nice here.

Yes, I feel like what I want to do tomorrow is go and explore the Brossa Valley, go pick up a bunch of like nibblies from all different places and then we have a picnic here.

How good.

But we wanted like a nice little weekend getaway

and of course three hours is our closest flight and yeah we've come out to South Australia to Barossa Valley.

It was yeah two and a half hours to get to Adelaide

and then just a quick hour drive to get out here.

We're staying, is it on there?

At the Novatel.

We stayed at the Novatel here.

We wanted to have like a nice spacious kind of place.

We booked like a two -bedroom room out here

And of course we're looking over the beautiful Barossa Valley I just

so many times

and I'm sure everybody can relate The first thing you want

to do on a holiday is to leave your country

But then you forget like Australia is a very cool country to explore

so many people come here And we always get excited

when there's an opportunity to come

and explore Australia I think I'm gonna have to like ban you guys from that bowl of chocolate Shane, there's a chocolate factory down the road from us.

Ah, I'm in the gap!

Good morning, everybody.

Last night, because we had such an early wake -up, we just ended up relaxing with the family, just chilling, playing with the kids.

And for dinner, we actually went up to the little restaurant that's here at the Novotel.

It's called The Cellar Room, and we had an incredible dinner.

The whole concept is the farms that you can see right in front of us.

They get all the ingredients sourced from there and bring it to the restaurant, And then on top of that thing is we are in the Barossa Valley.

We both tried some local sparkling wine, which was very delicious, but we have a full day in the Barossa Valley plan today to show you guys what we can get up to.

Happy Saturday here in the Barossa Valley.

I feel like the weekend is when this place shines

and every single Saturday morning they have a Barossa Valley farmer's market only on a Saturday morning.

So that is the first place we're going today.

And I looked it up, Steve.

The thing that people recommend we try, hot crumpet.

Oh man, I could have that.

That sounds great.

His favorite thing.

All right, we've just made it to the farmer's market.

What are we looking for?

Yummy treats or cute things to take home? Or both?

Both.

So last night when we were at dinner, me and Jas definitely love drinking a gin and tonic.

And of course we had to try some of the local sparkling.

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But we were just like, is there something you can recommend in terms of gin?

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And she said there's a Barossa distillery just down the road

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and our hunt today was to find them then i realized they've just got a stall set up here

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and tried some of the different gents decided to go for

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like a three pack we really liked the citrus one they were selling

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but we were just like you know what i don't know

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when we're going to be in the barossa next let's just get like a three pack

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and if there's something we really like we can order it in at home

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which was awesome oh good idea on choosing cream oh my gosh it looks delicious

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so good um she said so it's like a sourdough crumpet isn't it yes

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and i was like she was putting this fresh jam she ran out so she got this like

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ranma's jam out oh my gosh she's like no there's this store yeah

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and it translates to bits and bobs in german

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and there's people just sell their homemade jam their homemade honey all right we're going to bits

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and bobs then i need maybe i need to get the the name of the store from her

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and it literally has had the ingredients as a sticker strawberry is it good oh she's gone for a second Oh,

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wait, I need to try this.

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The best fits the jam.

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It's like full -blown middle of winter here in Australia at the moment, hence why we're rugged up.

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And I exclusively only eat crumpets in winter, like a cup of tea would go so well.

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That is the best crumpet I've ever had in my life.

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okay i feel like we need to warn you uh right now is

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that if you aren't from australia you may not know this

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but australia has the most amazing fresh produce

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and i think we're going to be eating all day long

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we've started with crumpets we've started strong hunt had the best idea we had one with honey one with jam

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and cream get the jam and cream it was incredible

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and next stop is a donut shop

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and i asked you guys on instagram those

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that are from here those have been to the barossa valley

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what we should do the number one thing was eat a donut at this donut shop

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so that's what we're gonna do oh look if you don't know what to choose you spin it

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town isn't it welcome to tananda

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which is one of the small little towns in the barossa valley And

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if you've ever done like a road trip in Australia to

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our like kind of small towns out in the middle of nowhere, a lot of them is essentially, the majority is done on this one strip.

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So you can just park in the main strip and then just walk up and down.

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We saw like a bookshop, there's a donut shop and also a coffee shop.

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Cause it's about 10 in the morning and we need some good coffee.

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What did you choose?

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We want a vodka round and round.

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Round and round.

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That's a good choice.

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What did you choose Hunter?

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You love these books, don't you?

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There was this cute little book shop, the Raven's Parlour Bookstore, and they had a little kiddie section in the back.

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So I chose some books, but down the road I saw a place called Beans and Cream, and they sell two things.

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Beans is the coffee, they make their own coffee beans there, and cream, they make their own ice cream.

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Two of our favourite things.

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You guys can have the beans?

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Or the cream?

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No, cream.

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That's good.

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Oh my gosh, it tastes like real strawberry.

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They sell milk on tap.

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So you can choose if you want like a full cream, lactose free, and then you fill it up and you can buy your own milk.

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That's so fun.

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Free flowing milk.

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Now, did I let you guys know why we're out here?

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Olakor were kind enough to organize this family weekend getaway for us.

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So we could come and explore the Barossa Valley, a brand new area for us, which we're very thankful about.

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And when I was checking in, I picked up one of their brochures our Olacore course is not only just a rewards platform

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so the more you stay you can work up status

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which leads to like room upgrades like we have this incredible two -bedroom room at the moment

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so spacious for our family this is all

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because of the Olacore kind of reward status

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that we have plus on top of

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that it's also a booking platform they have over 5 ,600

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Olacore properties you probably have been in an Olacore property before from like Novotel,

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Rixos there's so many around the world you think it's just for booking your nights there's

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so many different ways to like move up on the rewards i think there's about 120 different ways

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so this can be from like having your breakfast

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or having like drinks during happy hour to booking experiences can

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you see how many different you've probably stated one honestly at

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this point like we have done like just looking just straight

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on here we've done like mantra no hotel mccure baxofitel there's just

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so many under it so honestly if you see a hotel

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that you like make sure you go

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and check out all the core i'll leave a link below for you guys

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and members always get the best possible rate

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and of course booking everything through there you're going to work your way up

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and get incredible upgrades like we were thankful enough to get on our little trip

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and our little family getaway plus this resort uh it has

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like a pool giant chess board for the kids to play

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there's a playroom as well incredible food i feel like all we've done on this trip is eat

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but Thanks so much for sending us out.

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And we have so much more of the Barossa Valley to show you guys.

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We were literally driving along the road and we saw a sign that said sourdough bread, Saturday, nine to two.

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We're going.

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Can you see it all?

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We were guessing it was canola.

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There's this big field of like yellow flowers in there.

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Literally those are my three favorite words.

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Artisan sourdough bread.

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Hunter you have to go on a daddy mission.

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Go get us the best loaf of bread that you see in there please.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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Come on in.

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So I've got sourdough, this is all sourdough.

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Fantastic.

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So it's just flour, filtered water, it's certified organic flour, sea salt and filtered water.

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Sounds great.

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And then our starter.

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One sourdough brioche and the lemon meringue please.

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No worries, done.

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So you got the goods?

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It's two chocolate frogs, one for me, one for Kawa.

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Oh my gosh.

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And we got some pastries for your hands.

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She sold us on the pastries.

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How are we gonna eat all this?

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Oh my, oh.

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Is that lemon meringue?

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Okay, so she's telling me, she's like, okay, the lemon meringue is only, I only bake it when my personal lemon tree has lemons in it.

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Are you kidding?

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Oh my gosh, this is so heavy.

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Okay, I'm so glad they still had bread left.

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Did she have much left?

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No, there was like maybe three loaves of that.

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But she had like chocolate and coffee.

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She had sultana and cinnamon.

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These are all bread loads.

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Breads, yeah.

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But I think after all this sugar, we need to go to a playground.

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Like, it's a must.

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Can I have one strawberry, please?

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Okay, grab it.

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Here you go.

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What have you got?

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We can't go to a winery without trying the wine, Mr. Coat Zero.

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I was like, we had to try something.

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We've come over to, I think this must be a very famous winery because it is absolutely huge.

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We see all these people on wine tours, but we thought, we've got the kiddos.

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Let's come to a place that does food outside.

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The sun is shining and I got a Moscato.

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I don't know.

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I was like, do you have anything bubbly?

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And he recommended the Moscato

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and they make it all here i feel like here in

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the barossa valley they don't let like many of the cellar

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doors don't let kids come in i thought this is a

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good way to still try some wine look out at the winery

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and yeah they sold soup so

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that we got toasties hot soup some moscato i should try it we aren't very big wine drinkers

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but hence the bubbles i asked for sweet and bubbly it's sweet

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and bubbly that's actually yum yeah and ko is doing a performance for us we've got a lunch performance

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so this winery there is like a fancy sit -down restaurant

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but i feel like today's vibes is just like going around

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tasting little foods we've had a lot of sweets at the

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beginning of the day it's like the last thing i feel

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like is sitting on having a fancy meal honestly the sun is out it is winter

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so i'm very happy

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and just a cheese tomato toasty i'm hoping at least they get the cheese from the barossa cheese factory

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so it feels like you're having a local experience i got

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pumpkin soup honestly this is just what this weekend's about it's honestly it's a half decent toasty

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but just so you know

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if you do come out here looking for a fancy like lunch they do well

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so we took the locals advice we've come to melbourne's chocolate there are a bunch your kids here.

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Kids like Gaines outside and there's chocolate.

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How cute is this?

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I love how they do an Australian s'mores kit.

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I don't think I've seen this before.

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White chocolate Rocky Road.

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Mum would love this.

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Instead of a wine flight, they did a hot chocolate flight.

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This is my type of wine.

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So I know there's Marshies.

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I love the marshmallows.

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So the way it works is you choose your type of hot chocolate.

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So you could do white, dark or milk.

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So I just did milk for all of them, and then you have like a little flavoring

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and she said you add a little bit and you stir it up and then you taste your hot chocolate.

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Mint, marshmallow, and gingerbread.

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I'd be adding the lime marshmallows.

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So, oh, that's delicious.

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Now for mint, should I add a little tiny bit?

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Because she did say they're sweet.

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So add a little bit of the mint.

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This is, I've never seen this before.

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I know, I was like, a hot chocolate flight?

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I'm like, don't need to worry about the wine, we do the hot chocolate.

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oh my gosh the hot chocolate itself is so good it's

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so good and did you see in them the the chocolate

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that they use for the hot chocolate it's on tap continuously dripping oh i need to go see

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that you could even get chocolate fondue like little platters where they fill up little cups full of chocolate

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and then it comes with like marshmallows strawberries and everything

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it looked good but i was like we've had too many

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when we still have the donuts we haven't even eaten plus

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the lady with the bread gave us all those sweets i'm like okay let's just do the hot chocolates

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but the mint is delicious I feel like it needs more mint

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Do you want to try what a marshmallow -hot chocolate tastes like, Hunter?

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Oh my gosh, I just taste it on the spoon.

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It's boiling and it's a little bit musherly.

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It's boiling.

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And a little musherly.

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Oh my gosh, that is so good.

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Sorry, can you buy the syrup from it?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I think.

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It's a little bit.

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Just a little bit.

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And then you just stir it.

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And it's meant to taste like gingerbread.

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I'm having a first taste.

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So you could choose, by the way, like 30 flavours what yes 30

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flavors you don't reckon

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we love

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code names but it is the Disney family version

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and what's cool is

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that the cards don't just have writing on them they have their pictures all right dad okay snowball what are you thinking

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um Elsa vibes Elsa vibes okay

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but there is Olaf who's made of snowballs oh let's let me know

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when you want to lock him in you have to put

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your finger on it are we We have yet to eat a bite of our gorgeous doughnuts.

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Oh my goodness.

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Guys, have a good close -up of these doughnuts.

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Oh man.

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This is literally the number one thing everyone told us we had to do.

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I'm gonna try that.

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Wait, they had a doughnut called the Anzac.

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Like an Anzac cookie.

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Look at that.

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That's like a famous biscuit here in Australia.

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You have a whole Ferrero.

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Oh my gosh, Steve.

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This is the last sweet we're having.

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Oh, I know.

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Coming to the Barossa but we had to try.

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Are we ready?

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Wow.

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Everything's fallen off.

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That's a good donut.

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That's a good donut.

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Oh yeah.

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Oh.

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Holy dooly.

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I want to try just a classic cream and jam.

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Classic cream and jam.

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Wow.

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This one's like full of something.

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Mmm.

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I need to get cold then.

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Mmm. Of course.

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What do you think of your doughnut by the way?

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Is it good?

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How was this one?

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Oh my gosh is it full of cream?

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Just full of cream it went everywhere Wait I should have got one

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that was just like plain as well I'm more of like a plain doughnut Is it?

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Yeah it's good They are very good doughnuts Can I try?

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Still my favourite thing I've tried on this trip so far Is that jam and cream

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That's the cream Still my favourite thing we've tried since coming to the Barossa is

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that crumpet I had this morning with the jam

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and cream it was incredible one more bite

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and I'm tapping out good morning everybody you're welcome back to our next day in Barossa Valley

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and sadly our last day one thing about weekend getaways is

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that you're just enjoying it and then you have to be flying back tonight but

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that is fine that's why we came out here we've just

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come out to where we had dinner at the cellar door

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and they do buffet breakfast in the morning and we didn't realize this

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that when we went for dinner it was pitch black right there is an incredible view from breakfast ah

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so beautiful this morning this trip has gone so quick

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and i think it's honestly inspired us to do more of australia i just miss traveling australia

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so much of course

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if you guys missed quite a few years ago uh pandemic times we built out a van

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and drove all around australia we did come to south australia

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i'll link some of our original south australia videos we did

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we did like air peninsula did this really cool heli campaign

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where essentially i got picked up by helicopter popped into the flinders ranges

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and then like they did leave supplies

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but it was like fend for yourself on the night

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which was very cool there's some cool experiences in south australia

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but there are a few points we want to keep going

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to like new south wales we've kind of like skipped over

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because it was really rainy um

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but i think you guys will have to let us know where in australia did we miss

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and what should we go see because we are fully inspired to keep going

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but i'm gonna go enjoy our breakfast and then our flight's at about six

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so we have the full day here to keep enjoying good morning everyone

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and happy sunday we officially checked out of our hotel

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and before we leave the barossa area there is one more

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spot we wanted to check out there's a little kind of

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cafe on a beautiful lake it's called maggie beer's farm shop

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and maggie beer had a look she's quite famous she's in the australian bake -off series

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and she is a host on some of the Master Chefs here in Australia.

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She's made her own little farm shop.

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We're going to go and head out there for a little cheeky coffee before we start making our way back to Adelaide.

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Are we going to meet Maggie?

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Maggie's going to make me my coffee.

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See, there's a.. a walk here eatery

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which is why here get some coffee looks like mega beer does a cooking school which is kind of cool

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oh it's so nice they have set up this almost like scavenger hunt to try

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and find the different animals that are here on the farm

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and uh we found two of the animals

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so far i found a peacock and a pheasant

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and it's nice we're just having a little walk it's beautiful

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it is typical Australian like landscape we've got gum trees around there's a little lake just here

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and it's like a nice crispy Sunday morning it is

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so nice I think we're gonna order a coffee at the

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actual shop there otherwise this is just what you like to

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do first thing on a Sunday morning what's it look like she found sheeps yeah we've got to tick

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that off yeah kids are loving it hunter's got her little camera you taking pictures for us

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Now that's a big rockin' off!

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That's worth the road trip, right there!

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I love it so much!

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For our non -Aussies out there, something that Australia loves to do is they just love building a big thing.

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They've built them all over Australia.

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When we went and did our road trip with Cooper, we went and saw the big mango.

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What else did we see?

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There's a big banana.

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Well, here, near Adelaide, they've got the big rockin' horse.

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Of course we had to come.

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And you know what's really cool, guys?

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Is that next to the big rockin' horse is a wooden toy little factory.

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Isn't that adorable?

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Rockin' daddy.

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I love it.

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They've got the little rocking horse and then the big rocking horse.

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If you want to see what's funny, out of everywhere we've been, this is the busiest place we've been so far.

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Aussies love a big thing.

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Don't know why, but they're fun.

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I'm going to pay two bucks to get up at the top of this.

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Worth it, of course.

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I didn't realize we have to climb up the ladder.

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Yeah, so she's going to go all the way up.

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Oh my goodness, this is a big flower.

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I'm going to climb up.

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It's all good.

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Just go slow.

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Why?

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I love this ladder.

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You love this ladder?

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It's really tall.

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Alright, let's go up the big rockin' horse.

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We're going up, Dad.

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Come on, Dad.

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Coming.

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It's scarier.

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It is a little scary.

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I know.

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Who are we trusting?

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It says up only is this way.

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Okay.

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Oh, this one's a little one.

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We got this.

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Oh, that's a scary one.

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No, I didn't.

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Yeah.

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Not scary.

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If I told you I'd be on top of the world's largest rocking horse today, I wouldn't believe you.

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But the view is actually quite nice from up here.

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The issue is now getting this little man down.

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I feel like we're going to have to carry him.

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It's full like ladders.

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He's got this.

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You got this, don't you, mate? did you see the sign i did said you just climbed the world's biggest rocking horse

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and if you want you can go to the cafe

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and pay a dollar you get a certificate

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so they got a full -blown wooden toy shop just here

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and i see you can buy a replica of the rocking horse okay i feel like

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if we have anyone from germany following us right now you're going to find this interesting

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because here in south australia there is a small town called handorf

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and um it's a german little town like one little strip, German houses, German restaurants, even a German Christmas shop.

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And that is exactly where we are going to right now.

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German apple store.

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Don't need to go to Germany again or to slide to South Australia.

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When Jess said we're going out to a German tower, like that is so random.

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But I kid you not guys, this place is packed.

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To like park around the corner, I'll take you around the street.

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Like there is everybody's here.

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I literally hear German music playing.

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This is fun.

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Okay, the actual reason we came to Harndulf is we heard

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there is this beautiful farm where the kids can come and feed animals and um, a goat's already come to say hi.

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Hello.

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What's the food over here?

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Oh no, it's a big goat.

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It wants these guys.

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Kawa, this is what it wants.

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Hi buddy.

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See?

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Ah!

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Hey, the cat went there when my cat took it. Did it?

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Oh my goodness, they are so cute.

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They have the cutest little hair ever.

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Have you ever seen sheep so fluffy?

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Yeah.

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They must be red.

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Oh my gosh, it's cause it's the winter, right?

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Oh my gosh, they're so cute.

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Oh, they like your carrots.

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Yes, they do.

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Hi, buddy.

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Here's your bestie.

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I don't have any food.

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I don't have the same hairdo.

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Hello, sheep Steven.

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Do you reckon the sheep looks like Dad?

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Go on loving life, but also...

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Hating life.

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Hating life on the same time.

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Terrified.

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he wants the food you gotta give him something i feel

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like Hugh Jackman does anyone else get the reference hello you

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about to solve a detective mystery oh oh it's a big boy oh he likes the food.

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It's not an Aussie farm without some kangaroos.

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Hello.

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Why are you guys over there?

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It's pretty cool being so close to a kangaroo.

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Hello.

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G'day mate.

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Are you ready for your tractor, Mae?

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No. Bruce is pretty big.

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It's pretty hot, pretty dry.

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So they have to be very well adapted to that.

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That's stock and grazing.

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On his back, can anyone guess what's in that hump?

519

Hey, Bruce.

520

What do you reckon's in the hump, Hunter?

521

Something important.

522

Babies.

523

Water.

524

Not water and not babies.

525

Not milk either.

526

oh my goodness look we've got ones coming to say Say hi.

527

Hey mate.

528

Big red and white lady.

529

This is Harriet the Hereford.

530

Harriet?

531

Are we here?

532

Come here.

533

Oh my god.

534

Oh my god.

535

Oh my god.

536

Oh my god.

537

Oh my god.

538

Oh my god.

539

Oh my god.

540

It's coming too.

541

Come on look next to you.

542

Other side.

543

Oh this is Harriet.

544

Get out of here now.

545

Oh my god.

546

I don't look like this.

547

We've got a build.

548

Build a buffalo.

549

What did he say?

550

His name was Bill?

551

Oh, this is Bill the buffalo.

552

You said I had buffalo ice cream. So disgusting.

553

Come here, come here.

554

Carl, you've got Harriet on the other side though.

555

He's got Harriet on the other side.

556

He's trying to scratch his head, Carl.

557

There he goes.

558

That is a wrap on our time here in the Bross Valley.

559

I want to know, Aussies, where is another amazing destination you can go to for a weekend in Australia because we absolutely love this.

560

We're back at the Adelaide Airport flying home.

561

School tomorrow, kids.

562

Who's excited for school tomorrow?

563

You didn't have school tomorrow, mate.

564

See you guys, have fun!

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “48 Hour Getaway in Australia”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: australia, chocolate, barossa. This video has 564 sentences and 4930 words to shadow. The speech runs for 28:40. The speaker talks at a natural 172 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
gosh	/ɡɑːʃ/	A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.
doughnut noun	/ˈdəʊnʌt/	A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape…
crumpet noun	/ˈkɹʌmpɪt/	A type of savoury cake, typically flat and round, made from batter and yeast, containing many small holes and served toasted, usually with butter.
sourdough noun	/ˈsaʊɚˌdoʊ/	A type of bread dough leavened with yeast and lactobacilli that produce acids giving a sour taste.
strawberry noun	/ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/	The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.
explore verb	/ɪkˈsploɹ/	To examine or investigate something systematically.
marshmallow noun	/ˈmɑɹʃˌmɛl.oʊ/	Marsh mallow, a species of mallow, Althaea officinalis, that grows in marshy terrain.
getaway noun		A means of escape.
mint noun	/mɪnt/	Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.
goodness noun	/ˈɡʊdnəs/	The state or characteristic of being good.
sheep noun	/ˈʃiːp/	A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.
winery noun	/ˈwaɪnəɹi/	A place where wine is made.
bean noun	/ˈbi(ː)n/	Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.
lemon noun	/ˈlɛmən/	A yellowish citrus fruit.
bubbly adjective	/ˈbʌbli/	Full of bubbles.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
pick up verb		To lift; to grasp and raise.
check out verb		To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
go up verb		To move upwards.
set up verb	/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/	To make ready for use.
build out verb		To develop or expand (a system, structure, project, etc.).
come on in verb		Synonym of come in (“to enter”).
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Have you ever seen sheep so fluffy?
Are you excited to have the weekend here?
We're staying, is it on there?
You love these books, don't you?
You got this, don't you, mate?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have been · Have you ever seen · we've just arrived
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	wine, which was · school which is
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group	the cutest · our closest · the closest
Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea	should be · should do · should try

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 130 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, we've, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, marshmallow /ˈmɑɹʃˌmɛl.oʊ/, sheep /ˈʃiːp/, spacious /ˈspeɪʃ.əs/, shine /ʃaɪn/
Long words — get the stress right: ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, alligator /ˈæl.ɪ.ɡeɪ.tɚ/, continuously /kənˈtɪnjuəsli/, peninsula /pəˈnɪn.sə.lə/, adorable /əˈdoɹ.əˌbəl/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like gosh, doughnut, crumpet.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?