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Get your winter woollies on and warm up this winter, weather (pardon the pun!!) it be eating, walking, cycling or a drive, to keep warm you inside and out! We've got places with fireplaces, drinks that will warm the cockles of your heart and ideas for an overnight stay.

Visit Bass and Flinders Distillery to taste their standalone Truffle Gin, crafted to accentuate the earthy characteristics of fresh local Australian Black Perigord Truffles. These have sourced from some of our local Red Hill farms and the distillery’s finest hand-crafted eau de vie, a grape-based spirit produced in-house by distillation of Victorian wine which gives this gin its smooth texture.

Rainy days can be just as fun as a sunshine filled day so we’ve gathered eight ideas that’ll turn the gloomiest of days around. Most of our ideas involve staying inside where you’ll be as dry as a bone, but for the small child in all of us there is one activity which requires a little sense of adventure and a big love of animals! Read on and dread the rainy days no more.

Warm the cockle of your heart cooking with beautiful fresh produce.  Come and visit the Mornington Peninsula’s Farm Gates where you can warm up picking your own or choose from the amazingly fresh produce that we’ve picked for you!

So we know it’s going to be cold for a while now, but let’s not fall into an icy slump.   There’s plenty to do on the Peninsula to keep your senses alive this winter. We get that there’s the temptation to curl up at home and stay warm until the chilly weather departs, but we’ve got plenty of things to do and see in the colder months.   So tackle Winter head on and work you way through our 30 things to tick off on our winter bucket list!