{"id":1029,"date":"2010-08-17T18:45:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T10:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayl.id.au\/?page_id=1029"},"modified":"2017-08-17T00:48:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T16:48:21","slug":"adelaide-pg-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mayl.id.au\/?page_id=1029","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide Pg 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thu 12th<\/sup>
\nBreakfast?\u00a0 You guessed it \u2013 the menu was exactly the same except we were too slow for the chocolate muffinettes today so got even drier pastry\/sultana \u2018snails\u2019 instead.\u00a0 Ah well, we\u2019d mastered the toaster by now and I was just sticking to scrambled eggs on toast which I enjoyed other than it being so repetitive.\u00a0 And by now we\u2019d given up that the menu would ever change, which is just as well because it didn\u2019t.\u00a0 Just take breakfast as read from now on.\u00a0 I\u2019ll spare you.\u00a0 Oh, and their \u2018tomato sauce\u2019 was runny watery stuff made by Beerenburg (see further on in the story).\u00a0 I like tomato sauce on my eggs but decided I was better off without it!<\/p>\n

We walked to Grenfell Street and found the correct stop for our bus to Hahndorf, which was our chosen activity for the day.\u00a0 As we walked along we happened to glance up at an approaching bus and, lo and behold, it was our friendly \u2018almost related\u2019 driver from Tuesday so we all three waved like mad.<\/p>\n

Our bus arrived soon enough and David asked if the driver would please let us know when we got to Hahndorf because, of course, we didn’t know what we were looking for.\u00a0 Along the way we got held up at road works so David went forward and chatted to this driver as well and they exchanged details on what it was like to drive for each of their companies, which are actually owned by the same umbrella company.<\/p>\n

The journey was very pleasant and rural, meandering down tree-lined lanes through quaint small towns and we could see for ourselves when we arrived at Hahndorf as everything was advertising the fact.\u00a0 It was hot again, another 39\u00b0 day, and felt it up there in the hills.\u00a0 I have to say that only one in four of the shops were open.\u00a0 Perhaps they open on weekends or perhaps they\u2019d decided not to open on such a warm day, we don\u2019t know.\u00a0 Probably saved us a fortune anyway.\u00a0 The disappointment was that despite everyone telling us that German was the main language in Hahndorf, we did not hear anyone speaking it at all.\u00a0 In the end I felt like asking everyone if they did speak it, but refrained.\u00a0 And of course if you\u2019re fluent in two languages you don\u2019t have a tell-tale accent so we couldn\u2019t tell.<\/p>\n

We bought a small block of fudge from one cute little lolly shop and had to eat it before it melted.<\/p>\n

\"Bird

Bird Books from Hahndorf<\/p><\/div>\n

Then we found a museum which was really interesting to look around.\u00a0 They had a shop in here and we found some dear little stuffed fabric birds which had little books in the shape of wings on their backs which had nursery rhymes printed in them.\u00a0 We couldn\u2019t resist buying one each for Georgia and Emma they were so cute and unusual.<\/p>\n

After this we just walked along looking at what there was to see.\u00a0 Oh, the lady in the fudge shop had told us to keep walking beyond the shopping strip, up the hill to Beerenburg Strawberry Farm as it was really worth seeing.\u00a0 So we did; in 39\u00b0 heat; up the hill for about 1.5 kms that we didn\u2019t need to walk.\u00a0 There was a gravel parking lot and that was about as interesting as the inside.\u00a0 They sold jams, sauces and dressings, tea towels and a few touristy things all at very high prices.\u00a0 They even sold fresh strawberries for $14<\/span> per kilo \u2013 we were totally stunned!\u00a0 They also had large strawberries, chocolate dipped, which were $1 each.\u00a0 We high-tailed it out of there and found a dog in the parking lot who appeared friendly so we stroked him.\u00a0 He obviously appreciated the attention as he followed us out to the road.\u00a0 We kept telling him to stay but he came with us, proceeding to cross the highway twice, and remained with us all the way back to town.\u00a0 I just couldn\u2019t look as cars and trucks came by but he really did seem to be road savvy and thankfully remained safe.<\/p>\n

Soon we found a place labelled Otto\u2019s Bakery and it was lunch time so we went in, having been told there was a beautiful bakery in Hahndorf and we hadn\u2019t seen another.\u00a0 There were lots of cakes but not much in the savoury line so we chose a tuna and potato pie each and took them to sit in the air conditioning.\u00a0 They were nice enough but not prize winning.\u00a0 David went to get himself a cup of tea afterwards and I asked for a fruit mince pie which was a lot nicer than the pie had been.\u00a0 We crept out, hoping to avoid the dog following us again, and succeeded.<\/p>\n

The rest of the town was just shops and we only went in to two of them.\u00a0 Towards the end of town we found a second bakery; no doubt the lovely one.\u00a0 Oh well.\u00a0 And we also found the dog.\u00a0 One of the shop owners was tying him up and had given him some water.\u00a0 She told us she\u2019d rung the owner and told him what she thought of someone who would let their dog roam in heat like this; I’d say that was in no uncertain terms!\u00a0 So at least he was safe now.<\/p>\n

And once again we\u2019d finished what we\u2019d planned, yet the day was still young, so we decided to get back on the bus and continue to Mt Barker, the bus trip\u2019s final destination.\u00a0 Well, we have a Mt Barker in WA so we wanted to know what the SA one had to offer.<\/p>\n

It had a shopping centre, which was a lot smaller on the inside than the outside, and we were thirsty and could only find one caf\u00e9 which, for some reason, did not appeal to David.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t care where we drank as long as I got some water, and soon, but David dragged me out the back door of the shopping centre and we began walking down a non-descript street past non-descript small businesses along a badly kept footpath.\u00a0 He was a man unaware of the large \u2018me thirsty, now!\u2019 hints I\u2019d been dropping \u2013 I thought, plainly enough!\u00a0 And none of these places were anything remotely like a caf\u00e9 or restaurant!\u00a0 It was very hot and my feet hurt \u2013 I was later to discover I had a very large blister but I only knew I hurt at this stage.\u00a0 I\u2019ve worn those shoes for miles and miles and miles without problems here at home but my feet were swollen so I guess they\u2019d rubbed.<\/p>\n

We rounded a corner, grudgingly in my case as the known caf\u00e9 was getting further behind, and there was a pub.\u00a0 I\u2019m not one to encourage David\u2019s alcoholic intake at any time but they served wet stuff and that was all I cared about so in we went.\u00a0 It was actually a very nice old building and comfortably decked out.\u00a0 David had a beer and I had a huge glass of water with ice that didn\u2019t even touch the sides on the way down.\u00a0 I made David have a glass of water as well, poor hen-pecked healthy man!\u00a0 And then we had another that I actually tasted and we lapped up the air conditioning while we watched numerous buses go past the window.\u00a0 This intrigued us as the timetable showed the buses ran every 15 \u2013 30 minutes but they were passing by about every 5 minutes.\u00a0 Who knows!<\/p>\n

Once sufficiently cooled and quenched we had already seen that there was nothing else to offer in town so we continued up the bit of a hill to complete the square back to the bus stop.\u00a0 It really was quite warm out there and probably was higher than the 39\u00b0C that the city got that day.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t long until the bus turned up and we had the entertainment of the driver taking a wrong turn and having to chuck a Uey.\u00a0 Made David feel better that he\u2019s not the only driver that forgets which route he’s running.\u00a0 And so back to Adelaide via the main highway rather than the scenic route we\u2019d taken on the way up.<\/p>\n

Once we arrived in the city we made our way to the Woolies in Rundle Mall and bought an assortment of fruit and some more bottles of water.\u00a0 Woolies was most strange and had some stuff on ground level, personal hygiene things and some foods like biscuits, lollies etc and a bottle shop at the back, but the rest of the shop was down an escalator.\u00a0 The aisles down there were all on a diagonal to the shape of the room, which felt most odd, but I guess it wasn\u2019t detrimental.<\/p>\n

On the way back to our hotel we were looking at the Christmas decorations which we\u2019d seen workers putting up the night before as we\u2019d walked back from the Jasmine Restaurant.\u00a0 This one caught my attention in a big enough way to want to take a photo as I stood there laughing at it!<\/p>\n

\"Poor

Poor Elf<\/p><\/div>\n

Not a lot to say about that eh?\u00a0 Except perhaps to bring it to mind if you ever think you\u2019re having a bad day ROFL\u00a0 Don’t know what he’s doing with his arms but it’s probably semaphore for ‘send an ambulance, I’m in big trouble!’<\/p>\n

We truly weren\u2019t hungry for a big meal so had our fruit instead.\u00a0 I\u2019d taken a sharp knife and 2 plastic plates with me in my luggage in case of just such a situation so we prepared it all with ease and it was a lovely sweet, light meal for a change.<\/p>\n

After this we partook in some gratuitous tram riding, just for the sake of the fact that it was free and we had the time to do anything we pleased.\u00a0 Well why not?\u00a0 We got off at one point and walked to an ATM to get a little money for the weekend as well but it was just an excuse for being on the tram really.<\/p>\n

Once back to the hotel David gave me a lovely partial massage.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know why but two pairs of trusted shoes were bothering me; one giving me blisters and the other causing Achilles tendon problems, so I seemed to be pulling my back out of alignment in sympathy.\u00a0 David massaged my legs and lower back for me which was well appreciated, and brought us to the close of another wonderful day.<\/p>\n

Fri 13th
\nWe had actually done everything I\u2019d planned by this stage so had nothing exactly to do, and 3 days not to do it in!\u00a0 We decided to take a walk by the Torrens River as we\u2019d seen a path down there as we\u2019d gone over the bridge to Light\u2019s Lookout on Tuesday.\u00a0 Again it was a 39\u00b0C day so the hats and my scarf were put to use.\u00a0 Yes, by the way, I did get a few looks walking through the city centre with a scarf hanging from below my hat but as I said to David \u2018those smart enough to figure out what I\u2019m doing will see the sense and those too silly to figure it out?\u00a0 Well, who cares what they think!\u2019<\/p>\n

So we easily found the path and enjoyed a meander around watching the ducks \u2013 I fell in love with ducks on this holiday.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always liked them anyway but they seemed to crop up everywhere and be extra peaceful and adorable somehow.\u00a0 We walked across a weir and stopped to adjust my darned shoes before realising there was nothing over there other than a guy with hunky legs wearing short shorts who I had an oggle at.\u00a0 Not my fault!\u00a0 David pointed him out to me in the first place!!!<\/p>\n

Back across the bridge and then who only knows where we ended up!\u00a0 Better not to ask and definitely better not to describe it.\u00a0 But for much of the walk we were alongside a railway track and had the excitement of seeing the Indian Pacific train come along.\u00a0 David said the driver waved, though I missed it as I was looking further along the train at the time.\u00a0 It felt like a nice little touch of home knowing it had come from Perth and we stood and waited for the whole thing to pass.\u00a0 What would be the odds of happening to be there to see that?\u00a0 I think it only runs once a day or perhaps every few days.\u00a0 Anyway it felt special.<\/p>\n

For some reason the heat bothered me this day. \u00a0The only thing I\u2019d done differently was to put some moisturiser on my face.\u00a0 Interesting!\u00a0 We stopped frequently under my pretence of wanting a drink but honestly it was my shoes bothering me.\u00a0 However, both David and I were sick of hearing about my feet so I didn\u2019t dare admit to it hehehehe.\u00a0 We came across a map at one point in the middle of the park but it didn\u2019t have a \u2018you are here\u2019 marked on it so was as much use as a map of Sydney would have been to us, standing there ‘somewhere in Adelaide’.\u00a0 Anyway, we just followed our instincts and ended up on Port Road with the heat coming up at us from the pavement and headed back towards the city.<\/p>\n

Along the way was a group of really old, shabby buildings with a heap of cars in a fenced off parking lot and we eventually realised it was their police academy.\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 Ours is amazing and modern and large and clean.\u00a0 We were shocked.<\/p>\n

There was a sign pointing down a side street for an old gaol museum and we tossed up whether to visit it or not.\u00a0 There was about 15 mins until it opened and the only thing under question was how far down the side street it would be to walk with the heat and my shoes but we decided we\u2019d cope.\u00a0 But not until after we\u2019d pressed the cross-walk button that we now didn\u2019t need.\u00a0 Oops, sorry traffic!\u00a0 We talked to the police horses in a field along the road and discussed whether police always<\/span> have grey horses.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t a long walk anyway \u2013 maybe 200 metres \u2013 but they wanted $10 each to go in to the museum and for some reason I felt miserly so we didn\u2019t wait for it to open and in hindsight I\u2019m not sorry.\u00a0 David\u2019s not a museum fan at the best of times anyway.<\/p>\n

Back in the cool of our hotel room we elected to have another spa.\u00a0 Well, we\u2019d paid good money to have access to it so why not?<\/p>\n

Once we felt like venturing out once more we walked to Rundle Mall Woolies yet again and bought some nibblies ready for the boat trip just in case they under-fed us.\u00a0 No shops once we were there so we felt it best to take precautions.\u00a0 We bought a bag of lollies each, a pack of macadamia shortbread and 2 large bags of chips.\u00a0 The lollies and biscuits were both carried all the way back to Perth with us and have been eaten since we got home LOL\u00a0 We also bought some special blister bandaids which turned out to be a waste of time and money but you don\u2019t know these things until you try.<\/p>\n

\"How

How Not to Cut Bread<\/p><\/div>\n

And we bought a loaf of crispy uncut bread and some cheese to have a light lunch in our room.\u00a0 I spent most of the meal laughing at David\u2019s lack of bread cutting skills.\u00a0 More like hacking skills really!<\/p>\n

Admittedly we were cutting with a small fruit knife with a non-serrated blade but I managed well enough.\u00a0 He had fat-one-side-thin-the-other slices which were totally mutilated in the middle and I kept sniggering for the whole meal.<\/p>\n

After lunch we turned on the TV and watched Tiger Woods (and the other players!) in Melbourne and I followed that with a nap while David got stir crazy and bored, poor man.<\/p>\n

Once I awoke, it was early for a meal but we felt ready for a nice dinner and looked at my restaurant list and chose Mesa Lunga, the Spanish tapas.\u00a0 We\u2019ve never eaten Spanish and\/or tapas before so didn\u2019t know what to expect and walked up to Gouger Street to see what was in store for us.<\/p>\n

Guess what we said to the girl who met us inside the door?\u00a0 Yup.\u00a0 \u2018We haven\u2019t booked but\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n

\"David

David at Mesa Lunga Spanish Tapas Restaurant<\/p><\/div>\n

She hummed and hawed to made it look as if she was doing us a favour (and perhaps she was) but sat us next to one another in the middle of a massive table with about 15 chairs down each side of it.\u00a0 There were 2 girls further up the table on the opposite side to us, also next to one another.\u00a0 This felt very strange but the atmosphere in the place was really great.\u00a0 I should say that one long wall of the room was full of shelves heaving with bottles of alcohol.\u00a0 The alcohol was such a focal point that I\u2019d actually asked the girl if they served food as well as drinks before we\u2019d asked if they could fit us in.\u00a0 They even had what I will call a \u2018library ladder\u2019 (on a rail so it can slide along) to reach the stuff on the upper shelves.<\/p>\n

The owner was very outgoing and cheery and took our orders and they supplied water glasses and kept topping them up.\u00a0 Good job!\u00a0 Every restaurant we\u2019d been to so far had the same water jugs \u2013 very tall cylindrical stainless steel and this place followed the trend by also having cloth napkins and lovely crockery and cutlery.\u00a0 To be honest the menu looked more Italian to us but we chose easily what we wanted.\u00a0 Me more so as it was quite a meaty menu so my choices were fewer than David\u2019s.<\/p>\n

David\u2019s meal is pictured above.\u00a0 Pretty huh?\u00a0 They\u2019d supplied us with chunky bread, reminiscent of David\u2019s carving efforts from earlier in the day, accompanied by an oil \u2018dip\u2019 but we only nibbled so as not to spoil our appetites.<\/p>\n

There were people at smaller tables behind us and an ever growing number of people in the part of the room closer to the bar and everyone was happy and chatty, no doubt led by the owner\u2019s personality.\u00a0 The two chandeliers were amazing, huge creations made of what appeared to be antlers!\u00a0 As we watched around us the number of staff grew and grew so we guessed it would be pretty flat out later in the night.\u00a0 One thing was for sure, the owner had an eye for pretty girls to work for him!<\/p>\n

The meal was very nice indeed but the staff were slow to come and see if we wanted dessert.\u00a0 By the time they did bring a menu it was obvious the owner was squeezing more chairs in to the long table and setting up, perhaps for a large party to arrive, and we\u2019d be in the middle of it.\u00a0 We decided against dessert and called it a night.\u00a0 It actually took forever for David to attract attention for us to pay the bill.\u00a0 We have a standard joke that if you want to get wait-staff attention you should set fire to the curtains but we were in the middle of the room.<\/p>\n

We decided to wander down Gouger Street to see what else it had to offer.\u00a0 It was the dining strip of Adelaide and we had other restaurants here listed on my sheet, so it was worth a look.\u00a0 The place was packed out.\u00a0 Every restaurant was busy despite it only being about 7 pm by now, which I guess is still fairly early for a Friday night.\u00a0 We came across China Town and the Central Markets and had a wander around.\u00a0 Interesting enough but nothing worthy of report except that they seemed to be selling everything off which gave us the impression they don\u2019t open on a Saturday.<\/p>\n

From here we walked home, surprised at one long unlit strip along the way.\u00a0 I have to say that we felt perfectly safe the whole time, even after dark.\u00a0 It seemed there had been a shooting in Rundle Mall two weeks prior but there really weren\u2019t any undesirable places or people as far as we could see. \u00a0Not even any graffiti to speak of!<\/p>\n

Once home we watched \u2018Witch Mountain\u2019 on the telly while sitting fairly uncomfortably on the bed as we\u2019d got our cases on the \u2018lounge chairs\u2019.\u00a0 We never did unpack.\u00a0 Mind you, the chairs didn\u2019t look any more comfortable that the bed for lounging on.\u00a0 And another day drew to a close.<\/p>\n

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Thu 12th Breakfast?\u00a0 You guessed it \u2013 the menu was exactly the same except we were too slow for the chocolate muffinettes today so got even drier pastry\/sultana \u2018snails\u2019 instead.\u00a0 Ah well, we\u2019d mastered the toaster by now and I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":571,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1029","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayl.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayl.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayl.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayl.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayl.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayl.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3860,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayl.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1029\/revisions\/3860"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayl.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayl.id.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}