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Today we drank wine. This evening we shall drink a bottle of Klauber Block Shiraz 2002 from the Kies winery, written by our own Oz Clarke as the 10th best wine in the world! Cheese shall surely accompany. Of course our destination for the day was Australia’s famous Barossa Valley.
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The next post (on Barossa Valley) may be our last for a […]
As a quick aside, reading the Adelaide Advertiser this morning over an excellent breakkie the Nobel Prize winning author JM Coetzee (author of Disgrace) was awarded an honoury doctorate yesterday at Adelaide Univeristy. We were walking past there yesterday afternoon after looking around the museum and saw posters telling students where to go for graduation […]
Today we went on a River Murray Experience tour. Here’s what we learned: Christine discovered that in 1956 they had the worst flood ever and the local hotel in Mannum was in water up to the first floor. However, they managed to keep their business afloat (ha ha) by having the bar on the first […]
When Simon and I climbed the Fort Walk on Magnetic Island we didn’t realise that it was the hottest day of the year so far, but more than that it was the second hottest day on record! It was 42 degrees - the record being only 1.1 of a degree higher. I think we were […]
