Holiday Inn On Hindley Adelaide

Today was all about driving - some 600 km - and I was stopped for speeding - 11 kms/hr over the speed limit. The officer recognized I was a tourist and let me off. We passed through agricultural land (Black Angus Beef), saw a huge wind farm, forestry plantations, logging trucks and mills, damn near desert (except for where it's irrigated) and descended a spectacular hill into Adelaide. Today was "Sorry Day" in Canberra, Australia - the government officially apologized to the Aborigines for pa...

We celebrated Valentine's Day sipping our way through the Barossa Valley - one of Australia's best known wine regions and home to around 60 wineries - of which we only sampled four. We saw names like Jacob's Creek, Penfolds and Wolf Blass that you'd recognize from Canada. It was a beautiful 27 degree sunny day with not a cloud in the sky. I ate my first kangaroo for lunch as well as seeing my first one in captivity after seeing loads of "Kangaroo Crossing" signs while driving. One is very awa...

We flew a delayed REX flight to Kangaroo Island to see wildlife - specifically kangaroos - but saw only one koala bear and some wallabies in a caravan park. We also saw loads of New Zealand Fur Seals and Australian Sea Lions, but I think our Galapagos Islands experience jaded us in regard to these animals. We did enjoy our first "barbie", but were dropped off 2.5 hours before our return flight to Adelaide. It made for a very long day of transportation without the reward of seeing the wildlife...

We had today to ourselves so we walked Adelaide in sunny 37 degree temperatures to take in the sights - the bustling Central Market, the Festival Centre, Torrens Lake, the Botanic Gardens, the National Wine Museum, the Art Gallery and South Australian Museum - all within an orderly grid of clean streets. Can't say we are missing the snow you all have been writing about!!

I did manage to get on my shuttle at 5, with only the minor stress of our stop at the holiday inn, where a large US family had decided not to check out of the hotel until AFTER the shuttle had arrived. The screaming baby with them made me hate them even more. I arrived at the airport in time and took my first Virgin Blue flight. My first thought was, why do all the female flight attendants have blond hair and blue eyes? My second was, do people really buy all the **** with the Virgin Blue log...

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Well we are finally seeing a different country side woke up this morning after a night of rocking and rolling and the difference was amazing from the dry parched out back to the green fertile lands of the area out side Adelaide.

We awoke to a cloudy and misty morning with a light drizzle falling a vast difference to the clear sunny skies we had encountered over the last few days, we headed down to breakfast and had a lovely meal chatted to our fellow travelers and the...

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Sorry about yesterdays blog but that damn squirrel kidnapped the computer and wrote his own blog.

Well another beautiful day here we have been so lucky weather wise it has not been too hot or too cold so can thank our lucky stars for that, We had Breakfast and then headed out to have a look at the places we missed yesterday including Calling into a winery named after me :) as i was part of the family they allowed me to buy a bottle and some glasses cheaper Ha yeah an...

Hello All,
Cedric here the idiot is in bed the big sook, so i have taken up pen and paper well keyboard and damn good spell checker.
He and Nancy got home last night an were discussing the plans for today we were to go to Handorf and then down to Glenelg to visit with Sue and her hubby Dennis, so plans were made and hot chocolate drunk and the greedy sod did not even offer me any sheesh, so off to sleep we went.

This morning the idiot did not stir as usual and Nancy asked him if...