Charming Adelaide...

Howdy,
We've been in Adelaide since Thursday. We arrived here a little later than expected as we had a poor nights sleep on our last night in Port Augusta as a couple of people tried to break into our portable fridge and things outside the van. We alerted the park manager who called the police. Adam was then awake on high alert for most of the night.

Anyway, we are staying in a park right on the beach at Seacliffe, which is about 15 mins south of Glenelg, Adelaide's most famous seaside suburb and we like what we've seen of this stately city.

We had a coffee at Glenelg on our first day, and a look around.
Yesterday we had a top day in the Adelaide Hills region. We first went to hisoric Belair National Park, which has a diverse range of trees, and many exotic species, planted by the original park custodians in the early 1900s. We wandered around in spite of on and off rain.
We then went to the oldest German settlement here, Handhorf, settled by the Lutherans in the early 1800s. We had a terrific lunch at a little cafe serving german style meals. We then went to a German bakery for some german cake and coffee...yum.

Today the rain was pretty set in all day. Despite that we set out exploring again and after a brief wander in the city centre (which is really nice) headed for the Barossa Valley. We meandered our way through many little historic towns and had a lovely lunch at Angaston Fine Food...german style again...fresh baguettes with cured meat, pickles etc.

Then it really started pouring. We looked at a few vineyards with their old majestic buildings and then headed back to Adelaide. We had planned to go walking in a conservation reserve but it was just too wet. Oh well.
Think we'll head to the movies tonight. We watched The Pursuit of Happyness the other night, and enjoyed that. Glenelg has a lovely, majestic old movie theatre.
Here tomorrow, then off to Mt Gambier, and our race across to Melbourne begins! We plan being home late February, a little earlier than expected for a few reasons, and we've booked the boat to Tasmania for Jan 26th, Australia Day. Looking forward to that!!
Love Emma & Adam xx