Today was all about wine....and even better FREE wine! We started early heading out to the Barossa valley north of Adelaide. El was very animated about all the amazing wineries in the Adelaide vicinity (or cellar doors as they refer to them); so we felt it only polite to visit as many as possible and enjoy feeling posh for a day, pretending we actually knew something about wine! We smelt the wines and selected those we'd like to sample, swishing them in the glass...

It was good to catch up with my old friend Nathan last night on Skype. I felt a lot better today - I think my body has been fighting off man flu or 1500km of driving fatigue. Although 1500km wasn't much to cover over an 8 day period. There was a slight panic on Ju's part this morning as we navigated through the streets of Adelaide to get the van back by 10am. It was a lovely to see Eleanor waiting for us when we entered the Apollo campers office. Hugs all round w...

Luckily before bed last night Scott mentioned he may have to get up in the night to see if he could see the lunar eclipse. I suggested he look online and set his alarm otherwise he'll be getting up all night and as a result disturb my beauty sleep - not that I need any! (Scott edit) The BBC news article gave us a time of 12.30am for the total eclipse. Scott waited outside as it was now 11.45pm and it had already started. Camera in hand he disappeared into the ni...