The Chancellor - Adelaide

... recurring theme, again a sandwich was snatched by a wild bird - this time a kookaburra, who dived down from above and then sat for pictures for the tourists. <br><br>This was a great opportunity for the kids to get more of a taste of the aborioginal culture, which due to our mostly urban locations, they hadn't seen as much of as we'd have liked. We saw rock paintings some 30,000 years old and they also went to a cultural centre and decorated boomerangs with dot paintings ...

... are supposed to buy their ****** overpriced ramen noodles. Of course I had to argue with the girl because I was already ****** about my experience yesterday and I told her the food was going with me since I had just paid $22 for it. She told me, "You can't bring it because you are depriving Tiger of revenue and also depriving the cabin crew of their commisions." Now please help me to understand this...if I never ever in my wildest dreams had any ...

Rode back into Adelaide from Horsham today. It was actually raining when I left, so I put on my rain pants for the first time in the whole trip. The main highway here is fast and smooth, but a bit boring. Not too much traffic, in and out of showers most of the morning.<br><br>Stopped for morning tea in Keith after crossing the border into South Australia again. Quite windy, about 35-50 km/h headwind most of the way, but thankfully still ...

... insert native aboriginal group name here) are the traditional custodians of this lands and we support any efforts to reconcile with them." That is not verbatim, but that's the general idea. It is also neat to see all kinds of aboriginal artwork all over the place. But I have not quite figured out what the general situation is and attitudes towards the aborigines ...

... but we still checked out the festival and had a great Thai meal. Adelaide has loads of restaurants, bars and cafes, so we are spoilt for choice. Yesterday, we got up ready to explore the city and the sights only to find that now it was raining hard and it was bloody cold, 19c! When having our breakfast on the balcony, the motel owner turned up, looked at us and went; "brrrr, cold isn't it, we got the Melbourne weather". OK, we have just driven 1600km from ...

... to the backpack**s who had lucked out on finding accommodation in one town and was walking to the next one, he had been walking most of the day. I told him he should have got the bus or hired a car but he was saving the cash, the irony wasn't lost when he told us that his name was Renault. We dropped him in Port Campbell, wh**e we ov** nighted at a friendly, clean hostel (Port Campbell backpack**s), refueling our bellies for our next stage, heading up ...

... Ha.....HA HA HA HA!! Of course, I just played along and fed them loads of bull about English tactics and my encyclopedia of football knowledge! They must have been impressed because they kept buying me pints (and I didn't have to buy any back) - Grand!! One of the guys then gave me his Adelaide United scarf (got my bit of memorabilia - yay), and said that I had to put it up in my local bar back in England! OK - whatever dude! We will see. Got to say, they were all battered ...

... de auto is kansloos en duur heb ik al ondervonden. 25-11-08: Naar het station gelopen en met een diesel naar de stad gegaan. Voor 8 dollar heb je een dagkaart voor al het OV.. bus/metro/trein/tram, op zich goed geregeld weer. Bij het PeterPan reisbureau (waar je altijd het goedkoopste kan internetten) gezeten om te beginnen met het updaten van het weblog. Echter, zoals ik al bij een andere PeterPan ervaren heb, gooide een virus roet in het eten ...