Blogs from Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 88

Mon 6th Feb - Fri 10th Feb Spent a few days in Adelaide on either side of the KI tour exploring the beach at Glenelg, reading books, and just generally chilling out! Weds 8th Feb - Thurs 9th Feb Made a 2 day trip with another tour group over to Kangaroo Island. It’s a fantastic place to see wildlife in the wild! There are roos jumping all over the place, koalas chilling out in trees along the road, Met mad Irish chick Maria who was very amusing but quite scary in a lunatic way!! She provided much of the tour bus’ entertainment for the 2 days! First stop of the day was to a place called Pennington Bay with lots of sand and sea!! Then to Prospect Hill, we had to climb and exhausting 512 steps ... read more

2nd January 2006 HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL! Update for you! At last I hear you cry! Well, here goes, hope it’s not too boring for you! I have completed a Thai cookery course & now have a cupboard full of ingredients it will take ages to use up! But it was good fun & I’ve gained a few good recipes from it. Even though in the process, I managed to burn my brand new wok! Have also completed my ‘Learn to Row’ course - good fun, but more difficult than it looks! Got on better as a team in the last 2 weeks, though I was struggling to do everything, i.e. using the slide correctly, feathering the blade etc. Not easy! Once my blade got struck in the water & I had great ... read more

January 13th And the rollercoaster exploration continues of course… Ups and downs, valleys and mountains, waves and gullies. “This too shall pass”... January 20th Mostly waves of excitement these past days. Remember to ask for what you want ~ Ask the universe and the universe shall provide ~ ...haunted by these inspirational gleanings. My angels love me and love to put my mind back on track. ‘Focus’ they say. ‘Think about what you want, not what you don’t want. Guard your thoughts carefully, because they create your experiences… We always choose our thoughts - every moment. Our thoughts always have an effect, and there are no neutral thoughts. One half-second before you hold a thought, you decide to hold it. So, with practice, you can learn to monitor and alter your thoughts. This is the equivalent ... read more

Next day, toured around the Barossa Valley, approx an hour from Adelaide centre. Had a great day, and it's suprising how many massive wine exporters are based here, lots of the UK's favourites: Wolf Blass, Penfolds, Lehmann Bros, Jacob's Creek, just to name the ones we made it to: Wolf Blass. Fab new cellar door and marketing suite, very corporate and caters for large groups and tours. We got a really personal service, as we arrived just as a large group left. There is a good exhibition of the man himself, Wolf Blass, who is now local to the area - still lives on the property. Spen bought a nice bottle of Shiraz. Penfolds A smaller, more cosy cellar door, but again, really nice service and attention given to us. Learnt about the relevance of Bin ... read more

I headed out of Melbourne and on to the beautifull Great Ocean Road, we went throgh stunning coastal towns and ended up watching the sunset over the 12 apostles with a few glasses of wine! The following morning, after viewing part of the 12 apostles including Loch Ard Gorge, London Bridge and Razor Back I decided the best place to view them was from the sky, so for $60 Aus I had an 8 minute trip in a helicopter - very good fun but boy did it go fast! After lunch we headed up into the Grampian hills to a place called Hall's Gap via the Ontos Sky Tree Walk and did a 6Km walk up to the Pinnacle Point - very stunning views at the top but boy was it hot! The following day we ... read more