Hahndorf was thoroughly excellent in some parts and had a couple of disappointments 
* It is Meat City. The main road smells like roasting meat, which is great when you're hungry...not so great when you get in your car to drive home and the air inside starts to smell like slow roasted pork.
* More on Meat!! I am converted to bratwurst and sauerkraut, that and a little bit of full seeded mustard is heaven on a freshly baked bread roll.
* Meat!! Meat!!! Meat!! Outside of a pub that was playing canned slappy dance music, there was a teeny tiny Japanese couple struggling to eat a smallgoods platter that consisted of one giant pork steak (about an inch thick and as big as a plate) and several different types of sausage.
* Lollies!! LOLLIES!! ICECREAM!! The Hahndorf Natural Ice Cream shop
no artificial anything and you can really taste it!! Mocha made with espresso, rich, rich chocolate, lime and berry sorbets!!
* Giant jaffas, giant smarties and lollypop mice on sticks!!
I completely sympathise with Augustus Gloop, even though Hahndorf is a concentrated touristy concept of Germany...it would be so hard to resist!!
* I did resist, I only had one bratwurst and sauerkraut on a roll, a small finger-size cake called Linner Schnitzen (preserved plums, ginger bread and almonds all soaked in honey just for good measure), one spoonful of mocha icecream and half a diet coke. My son however, was thoroughly ill
. And damn it was so nice to spend a day with him instead of always being at work...he is such a funny kid.
* The German farmhouses on Paechtown road were so pretty, I will be putting up a pic of one of them. Words can't convey how fairytale-like they are.
* The cemetary out of town was lovely, quite untouched. I took some photos there too.
* The cemetary in Hahndorf was horrible. It used to be a quiet old stone church set in a garden with a very small graveyard attached, all pine trees and old roses bursting out of graves.
It has been turned into a primary school
The church is now the administration offices and all of the grounds around the church have been made into a fucking hideous carpark...which I found quite disrespectful.
The graveyard is in the middle of the carpark!! It has been reduced to about 5 by 5m square. It's not only disrespectful, but it's such an an awful reductionist concept of conserving historical sites. Keep scraps of the best parts and completely remove them from their context (I mean, what will anyone get from that site now? Old German gravestones in the middle of a carpark?) You couldn't destroy it more thoroughly with what they done.
* So Hahndorf serves up good food and bad history.
Oh, and if you want a bit of a giggle, the wait staff at the Hahndorf Mill have to wear kitschy lederhosen as uniform
* Then we went trespassing. Millionaires in the Adelaide Hills have stunning gardens and do not appreciate them. This house used to be a school that I went to and it has an amazing gothic stone grotto built into a hill with stone heads dotted about the lawn and inside the grotto (I took photos!)
GNOMEZ LURKIN UR GROTTO, APPRECIATIN UR STATUARY ( I'm a nerd!)
It was fun pretending to be 8 year olds sneaking into the local spooky house
I tripped in some blackberries and we stole some flowers.
We shut the gate behind us.
* It is Meat City. The main road smells like roasting meat, which is great when you're hungry...not so great when you get in your car to drive home and the air inside starts to smell like slow roasted pork.
* More on Meat!! I am converted to bratwurst and sauerkraut, that and a little bit of full seeded mustard is heaven on a freshly baked bread roll.
* Meat!! Meat!!! Meat!! Outside of a pub that was playing canned slappy dance music, there was a teeny tiny Japanese couple struggling to eat a smallgoods platter that consisted of one giant pork steak (about an inch thick and as big as a plate) and several different types of sausage.
* Lollies!! LOLLIES!! ICECREAM!! The Hahndorf Natural Ice Cream shop
no artificial anything and you can really taste it!! Mocha made with espresso, rich, rich chocolate, lime and berry sorbets!!* Giant jaffas, giant smarties and lollypop mice on sticks!!
I completely sympathise with Augustus Gloop, even though Hahndorf is a concentrated touristy concept of Germany...it would be so hard to resist!!
* I did resist, I only had one bratwurst and sauerkraut on a roll, a small finger-size cake called Linner Schnitzen (preserved plums, ginger bread and almonds all soaked in honey just for good measure), one spoonful of mocha icecream and half a diet coke. My son however, was thoroughly ill
. And damn it was so nice to spend a day with him instead of always being at work...he is such a funny kid. * The German farmhouses on Paechtown road were so pretty, I will be putting up a pic of one of them. Words can't convey how fairytale-like they are.
* The cemetary out of town was lovely, quite untouched. I took some photos there too.
* The cemetary in Hahndorf was horrible. It used to be a quiet old stone church set in a garden with a very small graveyard attached, all pine trees and old roses bursting out of graves.
It has been turned into a primary school
The church is now the administration offices and all of the grounds around the church have been made into a fucking hideous carpark...which I found quite disrespectful.
The graveyard is in the middle of the carpark!! It has been reduced to about 5 by 5m square. It's not only disrespectful, but it's such an an awful reductionist concept of conserving historical sites. Keep scraps of the best parts and completely remove them from their context (I mean, what will anyone get from that site now? Old German gravestones in the middle of a carpark?) You couldn't destroy it more thoroughly with what they done.
* So Hahndorf serves up good food and bad history.
Oh, and if you want a bit of a giggle, the wait staff at the Hahndorf Mill have to wear kitschy lederhosen as uniform
* Then we went trespassing. Millionaires in the Adelaide Hills have stunning gardens and do not appreciate them. This house used to be a school that I went to and it has an amazing gothic stone grotto built into a hill with stone heads dotted about the lawn and inside the grotto (I took photos!)
GNOMEZ LURKIN UR GROTTO, APPRECIATIN UR STATUARY (
I'm a nerd!)It was fun pretending to be 8 year olds sneaking into the local spooky house
I tripped in some blackberries and we stole some flowers.
We shut the gate behind us.
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tom has never seen it!
last night was so much fun!
(we'll have to go back in secret and practice so we can kick some mini golf ass next time!)
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Have a great day