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Monday, August 1, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
UP THE LAZY RIVER
There are many things you don’t expect to encounter when you’re riding along a popular bike track: a cemetery is one of them.
Adelaide isn’t enormous and it’s easy to get around. 14kms from the city centre lies the Adelaide Hills to the east, and the beaches to the south. With such gorgeous weather lately staying inside doesn’t really seem an option, so on Sunday we rented bikes from one of the city bike centres and headed to the coast. Note: I use...
Thursday, June 23, 2011
GIVE WAY TO PENGUINS
June is one of my favourite times of the year. I love the change in seasons, I love winter fires, and I particularly love the long weekend that always falls on the second Monday of the month. The Queen’s birthday weekend is the one that I tend to be a bit more adventurous on, and has lead to some pretty interesting trips: I can’t help but remember the year when Ross and I decided to drive to Tamworth from Sydney and got caught in flooded waters in...
Monday, June 6, 2011
WHAT A BUNCH OF CORKS
I’ve done it. I’ve finally escaped Adelaide city, and headed out into the regional areas of South Australia. And now I can add another wine region to the list of ‘been there, done that, going back again’ experiences. Three years ago, on our last trip to SA we’d cycled the Reisling trail in the Clare Valley; we’d dodged old railway tracks and rabbits, and wobbled between some of the country’s oldest wineries on a cold, but very memorable day. With...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
HAPPY ENDINGS IN BANGKOK
This Easter holiday, Ross and I decided to avoid the lack of bars open on Good Friday and embarked on our first trip to South East Asia. Five days in a city of 11 million people should be hectic, but in fact it was one of the most relaxing holidays I’ve been on, not least because none of it was planned. It’s the first time I’ve gone anywhere without concocting the ‘Itinerary from Hell’ beforehand, and it lead to a week that felt like three. Without...
Sunday, April 17, 2011
PORT ADELAIDE. HOME OF TUMBLEWEED.
It’s been a little while since the last post, mainly due to a new job and university assignments all being due at the same time.
The Port Adelaide Derive Top Five:
Socialist monument, or roundabout for horses?
1. It’s a sea shanty kind of town; if there were people to sing them! It’s got potential. It’s obviously an industrial area and one of the deep sea ports of Australia (think Melbourne Docklands, Wollongong, Newcastle etc). Unlike places...
Thursday, March 31, 2011
WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING CONVICTS
Rather than go on and on in terrible descriptive sentences, I thought I’d stick to bullet points.
Five Things I Learnt On My First Dérive: North Adelaide
1: It Stinks.
Local houses, Nth Adelaide
Everywhere smells. Not in a bad way: North Adelaide has a constant fragrant scent of wood fires and rose, with a bit of lavender thrown in for an ‘old lady’ perfume. It’s quite lovely actually. Coming from the hotbed of Brisbane after almost four years,...
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