Our last day in the Barossa

 30th July 2025

It is another very cool morning and it is 10 am before it is nice outside and we head out for our last day in the Barossa. We have decided to head down to Lyndoch, visit a Lavender Garden there and have coffee at their cafe as our first stop.

The last few km to the Garden is on a dirt road with stunning scenery of a quite hilly and very green landscape. We later discovered there was bitumen access from the other direction, but the direction we came from was certainly worth the view.

Yearning for a cup of coffee we entered the shop/cafe only to be told that at this time of the year the cafe is only open on weekends. Our disappointment must have been obvious and as we groused through the offerings in the shop, the owner relented and said if we only wanted coffee, she would make us one.


Carole browsing the shelves

After token purchases from the shop we enjoyed sitting outside in the sun enjoying our coffee. 


Not a bad setting for a cup of coffee

It seems that there is a major art event happening in the Adelaide area from 1st August called SALA. The owner reappeared to tell us all about it, bringing brochures with her which showed the scale of the event. The Lavender Garden is one of the sites for outdoor sculpture exhibits and they had already been installed awaiting the opening day. She invited up to go for a walk around the garden to see the exhibits.


Great views of the surrounding area from the high point of the garden


Not much happening with the lavender at this time of the year




The exhibit at the garden is a the work of a metal artist and items big and small are scattered around




A short visit turned into a long one, and it was nearly lunchtime. The other reason we came to Lyndoch is that it is where the Italian restaurant owned by the couple we met yesterday is located. Called Edo Cucina, the restaurant is part of the Lyndoch Motel and a quite imposing building.



We were the first. Customers there. The chef, Edo and his wife recognised us from yesterday and warmly greeted us. Lunch was great and we ordered take away pizzas to have for dinner.

Our next planned stop is at The Jam Factory, an artisan outlet back closer to home and not far from BVE where we were yesterday. It proved elusive to find until we discovered it was hidden within the giant Seppeltsfield complex. A few of the artisans were attending their little workshops in the complex, others were preparing for the SALA exhibition and access was temporarily closed and the Japanese knife maker we went to see had moved to a new site but wasn’t reopening until August 1. The Jam Factory building was the old stables which originally housed 18 horses, the stable numbers still printed on the internal walls.


Nevertheless, there was enough to see to keep us occupied for a while. Also on the Seppeltsfield site was a new outlet for olive oil based products. We had a Quick look there, and saw a lot of very overpriced products that were mainly cosmetics, many supposedly made on site.

Rain is on the horizon and we we have a few windows open in the van and Ann has some washing dry, so we head back to the caravan park at around 4 pm.

I refueled in Nuriootpa on the way as we are off to Robinvale tomorrow morning as out first stop on the way back to Sydney.

Dinner was in the Churchill’s van eating the pizza we had bought home jointly reheated in our caravan ovens.




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