Melbourne to Adelaide

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Melbourne turned out to be our break from travelling - we rented a studio apartment and spent a lot of time watching dodgy Australian TV and generally chilling out. We didn't manage to anything very touristy there - we went to the Immigration Museum which was over-run with small children so we didn't stay long, and to the Aussie Rules footie museum, which turned out to be mostly for local fanatics of the game and didn't have anything about the history of the game or how it's played... we didn't stay long there either... One good thing we did in Melbourne was meet up with Graeme's friend Mark, a kiwi who played rugby at Irvine a few years back. It was great to see him and his girlfriend Chris and we spent a couple of evenings catching up (over a few beers of course!)

On Friday we flew to Adelaide for two nights. We're a bit tired of big cities so we decided to spend Saturday visiting the Barossa Valley, one of Australia's biggest wine-making regions, on a tour with Groovy Grape tours. The decider for going to the Barossa Valley was not only that we could do another wine tour (our third in the past year!) but also that we could visit the winery that makes Jacob's Creek wine - my spiritual home, according to Graeme! The Barossa Valley is absolutely beautiful, and we were blessed with lovely weather. We tried some excellent wine, climbed up the world's biggest rocking hourse (very odd) and even saw lots of kangaroos in the wild - how exciting! We liked Adelaide but didn't have much time to explore it unfortunately... and on a sad note I have finally had to part with my trusty trainers, which have seen me good for the past 10 months but have finally worn out completely. I'm now travelling with two pairs of shoes, which is a bit of a trauma!

We flew up to Alice Springs this morning, and we're having a quiet afternoon before heading off to Uluru tomorrow on a 2 night outback safari. Keep your fingers crossed for good weather so that we can take lots of postcard-type photos!

love Jo and Graeme x

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Photos

Us at Jacob's Creek
And the actual creek is behind us

Aussie rules football
Graeme hones his ball-handling skills

Jacob's Creek
Where all that wine originates

Bethany Wines
Our last winery

The world's biggest rocking horse
Bizarre!

Comments

[Lewis]

Nae justice
In Australia it's winter, right? In Scotland it's summer, yes? So how come Jo and Graeme are posing in t-shirts in the Oz winter and we have the heating on in high summer?

[Steve and Rachel]

Groovy Grape
Glad you enjoyed the GG tour, we did the same and had such a great day. Bethany wines was definately the bet though!!!!