We enjoyed Cowell so much that we decided to stay another day to catch up on some home/house work and to pay a visit to the other pub in the town – the ‘Friendly’ Franklin Harbour Hotel.  We’ve not really mention before that one of our daily ‘routines’ wherever we are is to sit in the sun outside a café or bakery and have a late morning cup of coffee – a habit we  picked up from our time staying with Tam ...

Thanks to Brendan?s excellent directions we found our way to his and Heather?s no bother at all.  They have a lovely house in the Woodcroft district of Adelaide, set on a hill and with a wonderful panoramic view all the way to the sea.  We arrived at about noon and found Brendan, Heather and son Jamie at home.  Later on we met the eldest, Bridie after she got back from her Saturday job, and the youngest, Phoebe when she came home from dance class.  It...

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Before making our way to Adelaide we had one more day at Tanunda in the Barossa Valley.  This meant that we were able to enjoy a free evening open air concert of German folksongs by the strangely named Barossa Boys (‘strangely’ because they were all in their dotage!), a cycle ride round the town to visit its pretty Lutheran churches, and one last wine tasting at Chateau Tanunda which, apart from selling its own wine, does tastings and sales on be...

Although we’d decide to have a quiet day, as we were settling down to a relaxing afternoon reading the paper, Margaret came up with a gourmet tour of the area (mind you it was in a local guide pamphlet). As we were down to our last 28 bottles of wine we quickly packed up and headed off along the coast. With the nights fair drawing in we needed to make tracks so were dismayed to be held up by stunning scenery – how much more can we take!??! At Peterbor...