This is known as the Island of Wine: there are 31 vineyards here and about half of them have restaurants open for lunch. I don't think we can visit all of them so will have to choose carefully. First stop is Food Embassy in the working village of Ostend for an excellent coffee (I swear yesterday's was caffeinated - my usual order of skinny decaff latte is too hard for some people to remember).
The roads swoop around many little bays and skirt high hills like ours dotted with weekend cottages ("our bach" to NZers) some of them primitive and some palatial. Ours is in between: can't say I like the shower under the house which entails going outside to enter - fortunately there are no near neighbours.
Lunch was inland at Stonyridge Winery where we sat on a verandah looking out at a north-facing slope of vines and a paddock of horses. Very good food - roast lamb for me and duck for David. You are asked to tip which seems odd for NZ but done amusingly so you don't mind. The menu also offers duct tape for hyper-active children but the child at the next table us is very good with her colouring-in so no-one ordered duct tape.
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