Wine tour

Rain was predicted, nowt to do and the vineyards i've contacted haven't replied yet. Nothing for it, a wine tour it is. The problem with wine tours is that they are shit. You wander around the vineyard with some smarmy git telling you how they make their wine, the fact that he's just memorised some sheet and doesn't really have a clue becomes apparent when the first question is asked. Then they open a load of muck and expect you to drink it, one of them nearly made me hurl. Sarsons, tinted with beetroot colouring. Clearly buggered but no one seemed to notice. You can taste decent stuff but i reckon it'd be cheaper to buy it in a shop, if you can find a few like minded folks.

After this trauma you are whisked off to another vineyard and the smarmy git's clone turns up and tortures you again. By this point i was seriously tempted to drink the spittoon, i reckoned it would have more body. So that's it, i'm never going to a vineyard again unless it's a freebie and the vineyard is Krug. After this things improved, we stopped on the way back at a chocolate factory. Interesting and tasty.

In the evening i bumped into someone i'd met in the casino last night, didn't need much excuse to go back there, lost all the profit and 25 pesos. Bugger. Mind you 2 nights of free drinks for 4 quid, not sure that counts as being down. I'm sure most of you aren't interested in blackjack but for those that are i saw someone stick on 6, an ace, a 2 and a 3, the fact the dealer said sixteen may have misled him but still. They are also the most incompetent dealers i've ever seen, over time the odds are probably in your favour. Twice i was paid when i'd lost, bizarrre.

Tomorrow i'm trekking. If i can cantilever myself out of bed afterwards i may even write about it. Chau.