Just returned from Hepburn Springs. Nice little town with loads of spa, springs and food. This is where we stayed in Hepburn(Featured by The Age Good Weekend in “52 Weekends Away” as the place to stay in Victoria’s Spa Country.). A gorgeous little spa pavillion. 2 bedrooms with hydro spa in each....
Beautiful provisions in the pantry and fridge awaited us....smoked salmon, double brie, milk, juice, bread, chocolate, muesli, cereal, honey, jam etc and almost everything was organic....
On the first day, the guys went golfing and the ladies went for facial/massage...where else but at Peppers. I had the Li'Tya Mikiri. Lurved every minute of it. Had a head and shoulder massage and either massage for hands or feet, which was a pleasant surprise as I had not read about the hand/feet massage portion as part of this facial. Would go back without a doubt and try the full massage.....~bliss..Headed out to Frangos and Frangos for woodfire pizza...Pizza was pretty good (like the prosciutto one best) even though most of them does not have any meat ...~sob...but DESSERT....oh wow..the sticky date pudding....the brownie....wow
On the second day, we went to the Chocolate Mill. Small little store but yummy chocolates. Had the chocolate ganache truffles. Made without preservatives, that particular chocolate could only keep for maximum 10 days...it was consumed by your truly in a flash(in case they were wrong and goes bad). We headed to the lavender farm after that. Since Thomas and myself suffer from hayfever and it was about 35 degrees AND buzzing with flies, it was not the greatest outing for us. Entrance fee was 3.50 per adult. Had the Pasta bolognaise with osso bucco, Duck maryland with Orange sauce but the highlight for me was Lavender scones with housemade jam and cream. YUM YUM YUM. Pretty soon it was dinnertime. Went to Farmers Arms Hotels....I think we had the best meal here. Pub food but yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum.....Thomas and myself had porterhouse with kipler. Jayden has beer battered fish and chips...sounds normal? heee...but it's YUMMMMMMMMMMMMM....and the best was entree...chorizo fritters...hee hee
On the last day before checkout, we had chowder...heee...Chicken and Corn, Mahattan Seafood Chowder and Seafood Chowder served with a side order of corn bread. We has takeaway but the staff...very very friendly, very relaxed and fantastic vibe. I also managed to do some shopping(quite amazing since nothing was really opened during the xmas period)...hee..got an alpaca fleece vest for MIL, which apparently is 3 times warmer than wool and 4 times stronger than wool...prob the new cool thing to hit the market....
Overall really nice relaxed holiday. Would do it again in a flash again.
Hepburn Spa Pavilion Horizon http://www.dayget.com.au/accommodation/accommodation.asp?AgentID={DB31A079-CEEC-11D4-9F22-525405F68740}&PropertyID=658
Hepburn Springs Mineral Spa http://www.peppers.com.au/springs/mineral-spa/
Frangos & Frangoshttp://www.frangosandfrangos.com/cafe
Chocolate Mill http://www.chocmill.com.au/
Lavandulahttp://www.lavandula.com.au/index.php
Farmers Arms Hotelhttp://www.farmersarmsdaylesford.com.au/
Chowder Househttp://www.docoloco.com/businesses/chowder-house
