Well we have finally finished working!! We spent our last couple of days working in the packing shed making boxes and carrying stuff around as Craig (King of the Shed) who's in charge thought that packing pears into boxes was far too difficult a task for us. What a knobber! Anyway now that it's finally over we are preparing to leave Adelaide. Went into town at the weekend to put our car up for sale. Here's what we wrote in the advert …cheap and reliable, starts every time...Then as we tried to leave....it didn't start! We didn't know what was wrong with it but with a lot of gas and some fast gear changing managed to get it back to the hills. We decided that we couldn't in good conscience sell this car for 1200 which is what we asked for it, but when we got home we had a load of messages from people interested so we told our consciences to do one and rang to arrange a meeting. So Tuesday came and we packed Steve up and left cuddly creek for good. We arranged to meet someone who was interested in the car once we had arrived in Adelaide. Unfortunately Steve just about managed to roll us into the hostel car park before having some sort of seizure and dying. Water came spewing out of him all over the floor, steam billowed out and he went to heaven. We could however just about manage to get him started so we considered trying to flog him to some unsuspecting backpackers but our consciences (well Lee's mainly most of you will know I don't really have one) got the better of us. We took it to the local mechanic who told us it needed a new engine, fan belt etc etc. which we couldn't afford but he gave us 250 dollars saying he might do it and sell it on. So that was the end of Steve!

We thought we'd do a few touristy things whilst we were in Adelaide so we hired some free bikes from bicycle SA and cycled the 30k round trip to Glenelg beach. The ride was very pretty, it went out of the city along the river torrens and then along the beachfront for a few km until we reached Glenelg. It was a lot like Cardiff bay with loads of nice places to eat and a marina all very classy looking but had the added bonus of a really lush beach and pier and lacked the shrine to Ianto the fictional welsh character in Torchwood (Doctor Who spin off series. We ate at a place imaginatively named fish. Had a nice walk along the beach and pier. The weather turned out to be good too. So all in all a really good day but our arses are bloody killing.

And the last touristy thing we did in Adelaide was a wine tour of the Barossa Valley. The first stop on the tour was Gumeracha for the world's largest rocking horse. Now this I felt was kind of false advertising as it may well be the worlds biggest but it didn't actually rock as it was made of steal and bolted to the floor, anyway we took some photos but not really sure what all the fuss was about. There was a little wildlife sanctuary next to it where you could feed goats, kangaroos and alpacas. Some girl from New Zealand chased a kangaroo around trying to feed it whilst the goats chased her which was funny. I fed a few of them but they harassed you a bit and eventually a goat ripped open the food bag and then ate the bag out of my hand. There was also a black alpaca which there were signs saying not to feed because he bites that chased me out of the park. So that was fun! Then we went to the whispering wall which is basically the wall of a dam but because of it's unique design if you stand at either side of the wall (which is quite a long way) you can hear each other like your standing next to each other which was really weird and kind of cool. Next we went to Jacob's Creek winery. They gave us a little history talk and tour around the winery and then we had a structured tasting where we tried about 6 different wines from their collection and learnt to identify the different tones and flavors etc....supposedly. In reality we read what we were supposed to be able to taste and then drank it and went yum or eurgh. Our favorite was a rose muscato. Next was a small family run winery called Kies where we tried another 5 or 6 wines...starts to blur a bit at this point.....bear in mind the tour started at 7:45AM as well so we were drinking by about 9:30AM. The third winery was Richmond Grove where we got to see the wines being made and grapes being fermented. Dissapointingly there weren't people stamping on them in barrels in bare feet and it was all done by machines. We got to try their 1997 vintage wines which confused me because I'm born in 1987 and I don't consider myself to be vintage so I think that wines need to be older before they start throwing around the term vintage. Lee's favorite was here which was a french oak, barossa shiraz. The last winery was Seppeltsfield where they're famous for Port and fortified wine. They sold port matured from 1880, but you could only by a crate which was 44,500 dollars so we thought we'd give that a miss. I thought about getting my Dad a port matured from his birth year as a birthday present, but they got more expensive as they got older and I couldn't afford it!!!! Haha sorry Dad only joking! We got to taste a load of stuff, didn't like any of it really. Got to sniff some 100 year old stuff but had to pay 30 dollars each for a taste and thought we probably wouldn't like it anyway. SO at the end off the day we have learnt that Lee likes red shiraz best and doesn't like white and I just don't really like wine at all as the only one I liked was really low in alcohol and a bit like an alcopop.

We have decided to drive to Perth which apparently is the equivalent of driving from London to Moscow and is one of the longest stretches of straight road in the world. It's basically just a desert so we're hoping we won't have any wolf creek style experiences. We're doing it as a relocation which means we get it mega cheap and they give us money for fuel so it's quite a good deal and the camper looks lush on their website, fingers crossed it's as nice in real life.