Apr 29, 2011 - Arrived in Adelaide

In typical Jolly style we arrived in Adelaide on an overnight flight from Thailand at 7.30am, cleared customs by 8.30am and were out sight-seeing before 11am. We were met at Adelaide airport by our lovely SERVAS host couple who we stayed with for 2 days. Chris and Brian looked after us so well, giving us lots of information about Adelaide as well as feeding us delicious homemade food. Great company, great food and great help to two jetlagged and confused POMs - who could ask for more? When we shared our plans to go to Adelaide we always...

Apr 22, 2011 - Adelaide 22nd April - 8th May

We had a couple of overnight stops between Streaky Bay and Adelaide - one at Nuttbush Retreat about 40kms sw of Port Augusta and then at Port Wakefield, 99kms nw of Adelaide. We arrived at the Park here at 1030 on Good Friday and got set up. We have a super site here, close to everything. There is quite a big group of RANCBA members staying here, so we are using the bus service in and out of the city for our functions. Goes from the front gate right in to the city centre, so a breeze. Saturday from 1200-1600 was the Registration and the...

Apr 16, 2011 - Adelaide

April 16,17 Adelaide Sat/Sun Sat we took it slow. We did not have a good city map and we were set off on our own, so we got lost repeatedly. But that was fine. We eventually found our way downtown and wandered on foot for a while, ending up at the Aboriginal Arts Gallery. Hannah and Alex cooked us a home cooked meal when we returned and we did laundry and we tried to figure out Aussie Rules Footy. Port Adelaide slaughtered Adelaide even though Adelaide had the better uniform colors by far…, Since we’d already gotten lost and ended up near...

Apr 3, 2011 - Day nine – Adelaide (and that’s all I have to say about that…)

I woke up this morning and was promptly ejected from the hotel at 10am (non-daylight savings, so I got an extra hour at least). They were pleasant about it, but there was no late checkout, period. They did offer to hold my luggage, which was helpful. The hotel itself is pretty much a middle-end place, probably equivalent to a Comfort Inn. Sterile and flat, in a big-ish city (think St Louis or Baltimore), but not a place to find much in the way of history or interest even. I have read “In a Sunburned Country” by Bill Bryson, which was given...

Apr 2, 2011 - Day eight – Travel day

Once again the day started clear and beautifully, but the chill of fall was certainly evident. So I decided to relax until my 3:30 flight to Adelaide in Australia. I started with a run in the morning along the lake and then had a light breakfast and, to be safe, spent an hour getting my pictures and other media copied across a couple of storage devices just to be safe since it was all working at the moment. Then I spent an hour getting packed and arranged so that it was well organized and finally got a little reading in. I want to take just...

Mar 20, 2011 - Days 40 - 46 UPDATE NOTES

Hi All, South Australia is not helping much with the weather, we are starting to think travelling when the country is being affected by La Nina weather pattern is not too smart. We stopped off at a small town called Victor harbour for a few days and from there did a bus/ferry/bus/ferry and bus trip over to Kangaroo Island. Now Kangaroo Island is currently famous for seals not kangaroos any more. It was a long day but a great day and we saw some very rugged coastline on the south side of the island. We had a great lunch, saw a birds of prey...