Adelaide and around
After a ten hour drive (with brakes, of course), we safely arrived in Adelaide on Friday night. Freddy was doing good, we were tired and very happy that we – finally – made it out of Melbourne. We had no problems to find our hostel – finding a parking spot for Freddy was a bigger challenge. What a luck that it was a weekend, otherwise we would'nt have had a chance to park Freddy here in the city – all limited „1-hour“ parking spots.
On Saturday, we drove up to the Adelaide Hills and visited the oldest surviving german settlement in Australia: Hahndorf. It's quite funny over there. Nice little village, lots of tourist crap and lots of german flags in a row with australian flags. The „german experience“ there is more a „bavarian experience“ - as you can see here:
Even the Bürgermeister of Hahndorf is a lady from Munich – she and her family immigrated to Australia 15 years ago and now she is the head of the city (or whatever the english expression for Bürgermeister may be). We had a nice chat with her at the tourist information centre. Apart from walking through the lovely village, we enjoyed a bavarian lunch at the „German Inn“ - Bratwurst with Sauerkraut. Yummy! And, of course, we bought a piece of „real bread“ in the german bakery there – you won't believe this, but it is really what we call a Vollkornbrot! Wow! Missed it for a long time and we are really enjoying it now. :-) Please recognize the blue sign on the photo: „Hofbräuhaus München – it's wunderbar!“ Which language is that supposed to be? ;-)
Today, we did a bit of sightseeing – a long walk trough Adelaide, the Botanic Garden, having a look at a few major sights and a walk trough the free Art Gallery. Adelaide is nice and green – many parks surround the city centre, which I think is really good. No problem to find a place to go for a run – so, after three weeks, we managed to go jogging this morning! Wow!
This morning was quite exciting: Just before we left for our walk, the fire alarm started ringing. Was a false alarm, but the firemen did not know that and minutes later the hostel was filled up with them, trying to evacuate all people. Good to know, that they actually come within five minutes, if there is a real fire. Well, that false alarm will cost the hostel 700 bucks – lots of money...
Tomorrow, we plan to have another go up to the Adelaide Hills, Barossa Valley maybe – we wanna visit a chocolate factory (what else?) and a wildlife park, where visitors can hold a koala and take a picture with one of these always stoned looking animals – we must do that! :-) On Tuesday, we will travel on – to Port Augusta and then up north into the Outback, up Stuart Highway towards Uluru and Alice Springs. Which reminds me that I have to call Daniel, who is looking for a lift to Alice, and who we met for a beer yesterday to see if we like him. I have to ask him, if he wants to come with us or not. We would welcome it – petrol shared between three is better than petrol shared between two. But we'll leave anyway – if he's coming or not, does'nt matter. :-)
On Saturday, we drove up to the Adelaide Hills and visited the oldest surviving german settlement in Australia: Hahndorf. It's quite funny over there. Nice little village, lots of tourist crap and lots of german flags in a row with australian flags. The „german experience“ there is more a „bavarian experience“ - as you can see here:
Even the Bürgermeister of Hahndorf is a lady from Munich – she and her family immigrated to Australia 15 years ago and now she is the head of the city (or whatever the english expression for Bürgermeister may be). We had a nice chat with her at the tourist information centre. Apart from walking through the lovely village, we enjoyed a bavarian lunch at the „German Inn“ - Bratwurst with Sauerkraut. Yummy! And, of course, we bought a piece of „real bread“ in the german bakery there – you won't believe this, but it is really what we call a Vollkornbrot! Wow! Missed it for a long time and we are really enjoying it now. :-) Please recognize the blue sign on the photo: „Hofbräuhaus München – it's wunderbar!“ Which language is that supposed to be? ;-)
Today, we did a bit of sightseeing – a long walk trough Adelaide, the Botanic Garden, having a look at a few major sights and a walk trough the free Art Gallery. Adelaide is nice and green – many parks surround the city centre, which I think is really good. No problem to find a place to go for a run – so, after three weeks, we managed to go jogging this morning! Wow!
This morning was quite exciting: Just before we left for our walk, the fire alarm started ringing. Was a false alarm, but the firemen did not know that and minutes later the hostel was filled up with them, trying to evacuate all people. Good to know, that they actually come within five minutes, if there is a real fire. Well, that false alarm will cost the hostel 700 bucks – lots of money...
Tomorrow, we plan to have another go up to the Adelaide Hills, Barossa Valley maybe – we wanna visit a chocolate factory (what else?) and a wildlife park, where visitors can hold a koala and take a picture with one of these always stoned looking animals – we must do that! :-) On Tuesday, we will travel on – to Port Augusta and then up north into the Outback, up Stuart Highway towards Uluru and Alice Springs. Which reminds me that I have to call Daniel, who is looking for a lift to Alice, and who we met for a beer yesterday to see if we like him. I have to ask him, if he wants to come with us or not. We would welcome it – petrol shared between three is better than petrol shared between two. But we'll leave anyway – if he's coming or not, does'nt matter. :-)
shue - 10. Jul, 11:21
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