Adelaide Motels - Reviews and Rates

We woke up this morning to hail pelting on the caravan roof and the wind howling. It rained most of the morning but finally cleared for most of the afternoon. We got to Adelaide about 10.30 am and the kids were straight out of the car and disappeared to the playground were they stayed in combination with the bouncy pillow for most of the rest of...

Finally landed in Australia. Flight from AKL to SYD was very nice, then transferred to domestic flight on Virgin Blue from SYD to Adelaide. Luggage was a few kilos over on Virgin check-in, but took my heavy bike jacket out and carried it, so no excess charges.

Landed in Adelaide, raining. Seems the Dry Continent tagline is just to draw to...

Wednesday 12 November Hopefully Adelaide If you're reading this, I made it to Adelaide. There won't be any photos yet, so I included one from yesterday evening. The anti-shake system on my camera got lukewarm reviews, but it impresses me. This picture was taken hand-held, zoomed to 250mm (=375mm in 35mm film) on a vibrating ship moving at 20 kno...

The time has come To say fair's fair To pay the rent To pay our share The time has come A facts a fact It belongs to them Lets give it back How can we dance when our earth is turning How do we sleep when our beds are burning -Midnight Oil, Beds Are Burning In the small, lazy and scalding outback towns of central Australia, it's easy to overlook...

A quick weather update ... We checked the weather forecast a week before coming over, and it was supposed to be all sunny, highs of 27 degs C and lows of 18 degs C. Turned out it wasn't the case. For the first few days, temperature dropped to low 20s during the day, and low 10s at night ... well, this was supposed to be hot summer! This drop in ...

I'm rescued from backpacker dorms by Kim, a friend of my sister, and driven to quiet suburbs near the coast. We take lunch in palindromic Glenelg, Adelaide's much-promoted beach haven. Glenelg has more of the shopping mall about it than beach resort. Diners are shielded from the sea breeze by curved glass. Much of the sand is imported from other...

This entry is going to be very long and for most other than me... boring.  Read it at you own risk, but since this is kind of my journal, I want to include it.  So skip this entry if you like.  I have been reading a lot of great books on this trip and one thing I realized is the descriptions of a variety of characters.  During this odyssey that ...

It's that time of the year, the one time of year when everyone is expected to think more about other people than they do about themselves. A time to share, to eat, drink, and be merry. For me, it's a time to whinge about work. After my second shift at Stoli, I walked the four or five blocks home to rest for a few hours before going back for dinn...

Today we made the long drive from Mt Gambier to Adelaide. We started the morning by viweing the blue Lake in Mt Gambier, which was an amazing colour. We then spent most of the day driving to Adeliade, which was pretty uneventful. We had to return the car by 4pm and as usual it was a mad dash to find a hostel and the car back in time, but we made...

The first thing that happened when we left Parachilna was that we saw a huge lizard on the road. Then we went to see some Aboriginal rock art and then had a walk in Alligator gorge. There is a drought on so there was no water in it, but I still managed to slip and bash me knee. The afternoon was spent on the bus. The harshness of the outback gra...