Yallingup - Travels with Verne and Roy

Yallingup Again, 5-8 April 2022

Less than six weeks since our last jaunt down south, Roy pointed the Volvo XC40 in the direction of Yallingup, Margaret River for another three-day getaway… squeaking in just before the Easter holidays, which would kick off on Friday the 8th.

Being three hours south of Perth, the Margaret River climate is a reliable two-to-three degrees cooler than our home in Iluka Beach, Joondalup. Here, we’d been gently flirting with autumn – an occasional shower of rain, one or two stormy nights – but the mellow season seemed to have come to Yallingup.

Wildwood Valley Cookery School, 16-18 February 2022

Wildwood Valley Cottages and Cookery School is on 120 beautiful acres of bush in Yallingup in the Margaret River region of WA – around three hours by car south from Perth. What with one thing and another, it felt like we hadn’t been anywhere for ages.

Our friends Deb (West Australian) and her husband Blaine (Canadian), have been coming to Wildwood Valley for 18 years. Initially, they stayed at the B&B that Chef Siobhan’s mum used to run in the main house before Siobhan took over that job. Later, Blue Wren cottage was built for Siobhan, Carlo and their young family, plus another three chalets.