{"id":145,"date":"2021-02-19T16:50:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T06:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2021-02-19T16:50:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T06:50:32","slug":"a-weekend-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/19\/a-weekend-break\/","title":{"rendered":"A Weekend Break"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last weekend we took advantage of our freedom (and the fact that we are no longer ruled by the academic calendar) to drive up to the Granite Belt. We had a lovely 4 and a half days driving through beautiful country where we tasted wine, cheese, truffles and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/StanthorpeMap-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/StanthorpeMap-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/StanthorpeMap-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/StanthorpeMap-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/StanthorpeMap.jpg 1110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We drove from Brisbane to Ballandean via Cunningham&#8217;s Gap, and stayed in Ballandean for four nights. From Ballandean we did a one day wine tour, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WineLunch-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WineLunch-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WineLunch-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WineLunch-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WineLunch-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WineLunch-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WineLunch-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/WineLunch.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>spent a day exploring the area near Stanthorpe, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/StanthorpeView-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/StanthorpeView-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/StanthorpeView-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/StanthorpeView-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/StanthorpeView-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/StanthorpeView.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>and spent a day at Girraween National Park. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Girraween-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Girraween-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Girraween-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Girraween-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Girraween-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Girraween.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We drove home via the Falls Drive and Queen Mary Falls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/QueenMaryFalls-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/QueenMaryFalls-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/QueenMaryFalls-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/QueenMaryFalls-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/QueenMaryFalls-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/QueenMaryFalls.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/mSPSZkQo3bfF6BaSA\" target=\"_blank\">A full album of our trip photos is available on Google Photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a lovely trip &#8211; can&#8217;t wait to do some more traveling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a lovely weekend for a drive through the Granite Belt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[17,18],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-road-trip","tag-se-qld"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/StanthorpeSign.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}