Tuesday 5th January Life continues here in Adelaide, with beautiful weather and a succession of days that are mostly around 40 or 25C with many fewer in between. That is nice though, the hot days are exhausting and tiring but never number more than two or three, then the cooler ones are a very welcome relief before the heat hits once again. I have discovered the strange fact that when it is that hot, it is actually cooler in my room with the windows CLOSED! This...

23rd December The christmas tide is nearly upon us! Here in adelaide, my lack of festiveness persists and it seems most likely that the day of rejoycing will be just another day with the only difference being no work/gym/buying stuff. A couple of the restaurants in chinatown are open on the 25th so perhaps I will go to a chinese restaurant, that's definitely not something one usually does on christmas day. I am not entirely a scrouge, I have had flashes of fest...

20th December SA is the 'greenest' state in Australia, there is way noticeably more recycling here, every hostel has large recycling bins and the pubs and shops recycle, in comparison to Airlie Beach, for example, where Hoggies BINNED all their millions of glass bottles, and did not recycle them. The supermarkets in SA, Coles and Woolworths, do not give out plastic bags ATALL! The only option if you have forgotten to bring your own is to buy a reusable plastic ...

Tues. 15th December After planning to do so since I arrived in aussieland, today I finally did a day with Conservation Volunteers Australia, the Adelaide branch. I booked myself in to do it online a few days ago and was actually really looking forward to it but sods law guaranteed that last night was the first day in two weeks that mr barge man rang and wanted me to work tomorrow, arg.. I figured that the volunteering is something I really want to do and I'm com...

14th December Much has happened in my life in Adelaide in the last week! But it has been hot the last couple of days and I don't feel inspired to write in the heat, it makes me tired and lazy.. I am finally and thankfully moved out of Shakespeare's hostel and into a flat with my very own room! I had been getting increasing disgruntled and fedup of hostel living; the hostels here really are not bad. Compared to the East Coast where you regularly have people comi...