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Rockford Adelaide Good Room<\/p><\/div>\n
plus a table with 4 chairs; a huge glass sliding door leading to a large bedroom with another TV; another huge glass sliding door leading to the spa in a room of its own and then a doorway without any door at all to the bathroom.\u00a0 The bathroom even had twin showers in a single large glass-walled cubicle.\u00a0 The whole suite was beautiful.\u00a0 And it had net curtains!!!\u00a0 That was my biggest bug bear about our previous room here \u2013 no net curtains!\u00a0 So either we\u2019d been upgraded now or we\u2019d been diddled on our 7 night stay.\u00a0 We never did ask.\u00a0 Both agreed it was better not to know and avoid the stress.<\/p>\n
We opened our cases and sorted them out neatly, putting dirty washing in David\u2019s and all the \u2018doesn\u2019t need washing\u2019 and bathroom things in mine, gifts in our hand luggage, valuables in my handbag.<\/p>\n
We were hungry but didn\u2019t feel like going out for lunch so we ate the packets of chips.\u00a0 The ones we\u2019d bought long ago in Woolies in the Rundle Mall in case we got hungry on the boat LOL.\u00a0 After that we had a shower, both at the same time which was fun except for when one bent down for the soap the other got head butted into the wall.\u00a0 OK, it was done gently and on purpose, and revenge is a sweet thing when you\u2019re joking!\u00a0 Eventually we got sensible enough to freshen up to go out for a walk; not to anywhere in particular, just a wander around for a last look really.<\/p>\n
One place we did decide on was the Jam Factory.\u00a0 After two failed attempts to see it during our full week we decided it was now or never!\u00a0 It was open and there were half a dozen or so people there making what appeared to be vases with a light blue inner lining and a dark blue outer.\u00a0 One guy called up to us on the viewing gallery at one stage to explain what they were doing and it was good to just sit there quietly, fascinated by the things the students were doing.\u00a0 I had to giggle at one girl who was having to blow into the long tube while a guy was rolling it backwards and forwards across a 3 foot wide bench!\u00a0 I felt sorry for her as she obviously felt silly trying to keep pace with it and not always winning!\u00a0 This was a very different experience to watching glass blowing in Venice.\u00a0 To be fair, these were students and the Venetians were trained professionals but this was very slow indeed by comparison.<\/p>\n
We didn\u2019t go anywhere else meaningful, just wandered through the city. \u00a0For dinner we\u2019d decided not to risk a new restaurant that might be a disappointment but to go to the Alphutte again.\u00a0 I\u2019d actually had this in mind for over a week and David never cares where we eat so happily agreed.\u00a0 So in our wanderings we made sure we could find the Alphutte.\u00a0 It was a long way diagonally the other side of town but we found it on the second road we tried.\u00a0 Having approached it from a completely different angle we were quite proud of ourselves. \u00a0I hadn\u2019t brought the map with me as we hadn\u2019t planned this walk before leaving the hotel.\u00a0 The restaurant was open so we went in and booked a table for later and then went back to the Rockford.<\/p>\n
We\u2019d got quite hot so, coming back to our palatial suite, we decided to have a spa.\u00a0 It would be our only chance as we had to check out at 10 the next morning anyway.\u00a0 We hoped the bubble rate on this one would be better than in our last room as that one had barely disturbed the top of the water!\u00a0 We have to admit it was not a lot better but it was nice to cool down anyway. \u00a0Then it was time to get ready for dinner.\u00a0 We walked the distance again to the restaurant and were seated further in than we had been the last time.<\/p>\n
I hope they don’t mind but I’ve ‘borrowed’ this photo from their website.\u00a0 But I have only praise for the place so hopefully that makes it alright.<\/p>\n
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Alphutte Restaurant, Pulteney Street, Adelaide<\/p><\/div>\n
As you sit down they bring you out absolutely massive slices of bread with butter.\u00a0 Truly, half a loaf would be a better description than a \u2018slice\u2019.\u00a0 We decided to share one slice between us to leave room for dinner.\u00a0 I chose a cauliflower soup which was totaly delicious and came in a tureen!\u00a0 I had 2 bowls of it and still didn\u2019t finish it for fear of wasting my main course.\u00a0 David had garlic prawns.<\/p>\n
David of course wanted his Moo Bru again and the waiter brought it out and started to pour the bottle into the glass.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never seen anything so frothy in my life!!!\u00a0 The waiter was horrified and apologising all over the place and we both laughed and David said not to worry.\u00a0 He still looked worried so we told him we wouldn\u2019t tell anyone and now he laughed as well and left David to pour the rest in when there was space.<\/p>\n
For mains I chose sweet and sour fish but I was expecting it to be like you would get from a Chinese restaurant and it wasn\u2019t.\u00a0 It was very tasty with large battered fish pieces \u2013 only 2 of them rather than the usual many small pieces \u2013 and the sauce was in a separate small bowl, quite runny and clear, not the thick red I was expecting.\u00a0 Truly delicious though!\u00a0 We had the lovely steamed veggies again, served by the waiter using a spoon and fork in one hand.\u00a0 How do they do that???\u00a0 And we also chose the potato rosti that we\u2019d enjoyed there the last time.\u00a0 David chose the same main course as before, Emmentaler Poulet.<\/p>\n
David wanted another Moo Bru by now and this time it was brought out by the young waitress.\u00a0 As she started to pour it she got a massive head on it and she was getting flustered.\u00a0 We laughed.\u00a0 I whispered to her \u201cIt\u2019s OK, the other waiter did the same thing but we said we wouldn\u2019t tell.\u00a0 Sshhhh!\u201d\u00a0 She laughed and promised she wouldn\u2019t admit I\u2019d told her and, at David\u2019s request, she left him with it.<\/p>\n
By the time we\u2019d eaten half of our main course we were pretty full and neither of us finished it all, but it was the last night of our holidays so we decided to have dessert as well.\u00a0 I chose the profiteroles I\u2019d had last time, they were too delicious to choose anything else.\u00a0 David is sure he didn\u2019t have a dessert.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure he did but can\u2019t remember what.\u00a0 Newsflash, a check of their online menu reminds us that he had cr\u00e8me brulee.\u00a0 Our other meal at the Alphutte is at the bottom of this page<\/a><\/p>\n We were fascinated watching an Asian couple at the next table who ate more than we did.\u00a0 The girl in particular was so slender and we wondered where on earth she\u2019d put all that food!<\/p>\n We really did roll out of there but it was a memorable night.\u00a0 We welcomed the fresh air and the exercise of walking back to the hotel again.\u00a0 And we welcomed the huge, soft bed, despite it too having a hard, raised ridge down the middle where it was 2 singles pushed together.\u00a0 I really don\u2019t fathom that idea in a big hotel but who am I to question?<\/p>\n We slept well and woke later than we had been doing on the boat but it didn\u2019t matter as we had nothing to do.\u00a0 We decided to start with breakfast and went down to the buffet hoping the menu might have changed in the past week.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 Everything unchanged except that they now had blinds up at the window so we could sit anywhere without being roasted or blinded by the sun, and they had got new scatter cushions on some of the chairs.<\/p>\n Some mornings at breakfast we had noticed how many taxis were going by so, for entertainment, we decided we\u2019d count them today.\u00a0 We counted 33 taxis, 4 police vehicles, 1 fire truck with tender and 1 lost ambulance.\u00a0 The ambulance had come from Morphett Street with its siren going, hesitated at the lights but turned left into Hindley and then stopped across the road from the hotel.\u00a0 Then they sat there and got a road map out!!!\u00a0 After a minute or two they continued the way they\u2019d gone.\u00a0 A few minutes later David saw them coming from the other direction on Morphett Street and crossed Hindley once more to go back the way they\u2019d come.\u00a0 That\u2019s a worry!\u00a0 A police car had shot through with its lights flashing as well, hopefully to escort the ambulance.<\/p>\n After breakfast we showered and put the last few things in the cases, checked out, but left our cases in their store room, and wandered around the city for the last time.\u00a0 We took yet more pictures of public transport along the way and before we knew it it was time to come back to the hotel to catch a taxi to the airport.<\/p>\n I\u2019m sure you don\u2019t want to know about our trip to the airport or the flight so I am going to stop here.\u00a0 Until the next holiday \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Thank you for sharing our holiday with us!!!<\/p>\n Please feel free to leave a comment in the fields below before leaving this page. Email addresses will not be used in any way, nor displayed for anyone to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bearing in mind that we\u2019d had an \u2018executive spa suite\u2019 at the Rockford Hotel the week before, and had booked the same again for this night, you can imagine our surprise when we entered this room to find it near … Continue reading