Yesterday T and J drove us on a tour of The Barossa Valley with its many vineyards and 'Cellar Doors' (wine tastings). Many of the largest well known wine producers are here, like Jacob's Creek and McGuigan's and we managed a few tastings of course! The countryside is beautiful with hundreds of acres of vines giving a lush appearance to an otherwise dry landscape. we left Adelaide this morning to head towards The Great Ocean Road (GOR) via Hahndorf, a Germanic t...

Second day of the Adelaide Ashes test match today. David and Tony went to the first day and David and I went today. Started with a minute's silence as Nelson Mandela's death had just been announced. Aussies were batting and finally all out for 570. England went in to bat late afternoon to face record setting speed bowling by Aussies. Cook, England captain was bowled after scoring 3, and by the end of today England had scored less than 30. Great day, I hav...

Took the tram into Adelaide city centre to do the tourist bit with our local hosts. We went to the Oval so that David and Tony could pick up the tickets for the test match due to start tomorrow. The cricket ground is undergoing a complete makeover and one of the new stands is far from complete. We then took a walk around Adelaide centre and viewed all the main buildings, which conveniently are close together! Adelaide is a compact state capital, very differen...

Following some good coffee and breakfast at the motel we set off for the second half of our drive to Adelaide, passing through some fairly remote and spread out towns along the Dukes Highway. We passed a couple of signs telling us that no fresh fruit can be carried over the state border, which was news to us, and that bins were available at the 'border' to deposit anything that contravened this state law. (Apparently, South Australia does not have any fruit flie...