Blogs from Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 6

Today I spent the entire day in the beautiful city of Adelaide. We started with a discussion of Aborigine rights and problems in Australia which parallel those of our native American Indians. Following, we had a free day with the option to do things such as a tour or Australian wineries. I chose to simply relax and explore Adelaide by walking around this beautiful city. Interesting to me is the structure of the city was engineered before it was built. The city is build on a grid north to south, east to west. Since this is a very warm part of Australia, East to West streets take advantage of the winds coming from the mountains to the East, bring cooling to the city during the day. I visited various sites in the city. In particular, I ... read more

Geo: -34.9258, 138.6Once again we are in Dubai Airport, not a lot of time to wait between flights, the airport is unbelievably huge, unless you have been there, and gone from terminal to terminal, you can't imagine the size, and they're now building a new bigger airport, due to open in 2020. Our plane was due to depart at 2.05am, we went to the gate and waited, and boarded when we were called. Our departure was slightly delayed, due to the queue ahead of us, of planes incoming and outgoing. Homeward bound, for the next 12.5 hours we will have to try and get some sleep. Up in the air again, we had a meal and a drink, and we all tried to get comfortable for the next few hours. Somehow, I just can't seem to ... read more

Geo: -34.9258, 138.6This was a very fast world wind visit to family and for a fantastic wedding.I arrived the Thursday afternoon. We, the 3 sisters, had a quick coffee and then we where off to the shops.The following day was last minute wedding stuff and an early night.Wedding day.... Professional makeup for the girls while I went for a walk on the Grange Beach. It was great to walk along the beach with my feet in the sea. That really is on thing that I miss in China, and the blue sky, and the fresh air, and the food, and the people, and the.......Wedding was brilliant. Bride was beautiful.... Oh and the groom.The party was brilliant.They cut the cake. We ate and then the music started and it didn't stop. We all danced. All night. Even ... read more

Day 5 Today is the last day of the rally. We have woken up to a beautiful sunny day with no clouds in the sky. The town is an old copper mining town that was in operation in the late 1800's. A beautiful setting for one pub, one school and a milk bar. A nice place to come back to and visit. Today we drive from Blinman to Hawker to Orroroo to Peterborough to Auburn and then to Adelaide. Tonight we have an end of rally party and tomorrow we drive another 700km back to Melbourne. Well that was the plan. We got through all those towns without mishap but as we were approaching our final destination the heavens open up to torrential rain. We got soaked just transferring our camping stuff from the Mystery Box ... read more

Well today is day 1. We were going to leave at 6am but we could not get all our rubbish into the back of Xaviers ranger . Anyhow we left at 6.30am. It was a pretty smooth drive and we got to Adelaide 30 mins early. Took a while to remember Adelaide is 30 mins behind us. After a quick visit at our cousins place we headed to the Manheim auctions. Well we are going on a car rally to an unknown destination in an unknown car. What a funny auction. A bunch of old cars came through the auction shed. 135 cars being bid for and you don't know what cars are coming. Lots of very small cars and cars that have had a hard life. We got a ford au. Hammered off course but ... read more