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A sale airfare and a day trip to Adelaide to see some trains, planes and boat museums. Read more
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  • Travel with CarlTravel with CarlAdelaide: Train, Plane & Boats
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    Early morning Jetstar A320 flight ✈️

    December 14, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

    Is it just me or is it impossible to get a solid night’s sleep when you have a 6 something a.m. flight to catch in the morning? I ended up waking at 3 a.m., had breakfast followed by a little nap before getting to the airport at 6, for my 6:20 boarding time.

    This was the last of my day trips that were booked a long time ago and moved several times. I had enough time to have an oat hot chocolate, grab a bottle of water, and head to the gate in time for the 6:20 boarding. On the way, I saw an all-white 747-400 cargo pushing back for a trip to Hong Kong. By the time I was onboard, the avgeek in me had activated, and I was well awake.

    Jetstar has an efficient process boarding, with a full A320 load of passengers onboard and seated within 14 minutes of boarding starting. Once pushed back, the safety demo was performed by a newbie flight attendant on her first ever flight. She did a great job but was visibly a bit nervous (probably because the crew member who was supervising her was watching like a hawk).

    I had a great view of an arriving Emirates A380, a LATAM 787, and a Cathay 777 on our taxiing this morning. Great a geek vibes in the morning sunshine. Lining up onto runway 27, we had to hold for a few minutes while a Qantas 737 taxied off the runway. I’m assuming it had a fault and decided not to take off. Once the 737 was clear, we zoomed out of Melbourne and headed for Adelaide.

    Having changed this flight multiple times, I had a $10 voucher to spend onboard. Having already got a chocolate croissant in the terminal, I wasn’t hungry, so I just got a chocolate bar and tea cake for later. The newbie served me under the careful watch of her keeper.

    We cruised along just above a layer of cloud, so we had a few minor bumps along the way. Nothing bumpy enough to wake up my neighbour who was sound asleep snoring up a storm. The cloud cleared over Adelaide, making a lovely arrival with views of the city centre on our approach. A hard bump greeted us on touchdown before arriving at the gate a few minutes early. Now it’s time to explore Adelaide for a few hours before heading home again this afternoon.    Read more

  • Travel with CarlTravel with CarlAdelaide: Train, Plane & Boats

    Port Adelaide Street Art

    December 14, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

    Arriving early, I picked up my rental car and headed to Port Adelaide. I haven’t visited this part of Adelaide before, and it has a few museums I want to check out later in the morning. As a heritage area, I thought it would be an okay place to wander while I waited for the museums to open. I parked at a nearby Coles, assuming parking would be difficult at the port itself, and walked down.

    The area around the port was dead quiet when I arrived at 8:30 a.m. I could have saved the 5-minute walk and parked by the dockside. Oh well, need to keep my steps up. I’d seen on Google Maps a few mural streets and graffiti walls in the area, so I started by checking them out. I do like a bit of street art, and there were a few good ones here, and some average ones that were more like just graffiti.

    There are quite a few bars and pubs around, and the occasional smell of piss or vomit suggests the area might have had some Friday night action. Being a heritage area, there are some nice old buildings, although the waterfront is a little dull, other than the lighthouse.

    After a little walk, I decided to grab breakfast number 2.5 and ordered an açai bowl from a café a few blocks back from the port. It wasn’t bad, and it gave me a break to write this before the museums opened up. I probably wouldn’t rush back to see the street art here, but it was nice enough. Maybe when stuff opens around here, it’ll have a more alive vibe to the place.    Read more

  • Travel with CarlTravel with CarlAdelaide: Train, Plane & Boats

    A big kid at the National Railway Museum

    December 14, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C

    Yes, when it comes down to it, I’m just a big nerdy kid trapped in an adult body. Naturally, when I saw there was a railway museum in Adelaide, the nerd in me had to visit. I’m glad I did as it was fun. On arrival, I was given a map of the sheds and informed that a small train does loops of the museum if I wanted to go for a ride. Naturally, the answer to that was yes. I hesitated for a second, thinking I should wait till a kid or something wanted to go, but the staff were so friendly and encouraging me to take a ride.

    Two laps of the museum yards later onboard the mini train, the big kid in me was fully excited to go explore the sheds filled with historic locos. They had heaps more trains here than I expected. Did I read all the info about what they were? No. But I did have fun looking at the massive engines, historic carriages, and lots of train-related paraphernalia.

    Other than the massive steam engines, highlights were the bank / butcher / general store carriages that used to serve communities between Adelaide and Kalgoorlie. Some of the most remote places in the world got their meat and supplies, and even could do their banking with the mobile Commonwealth Bank train carriage. Kinda like UberEats but on a train lol.

    There is also a cool miniature railway display which was nice - although once you’ve been to Miniatureworld in Hamburg, every model railway you see after is small in comparison. I had a go at driving a train using the simulator. My train driving skills haven’t improved from when I was a kid and used my dad’s train sim game. Full throttle - no brakes! Doubt Metro will be calling me up to become a train driver.

    The exhibit on women and the railways was good to see, as was the impressive number of trains and carriages in various stages of restoration. Knowing I had a few other museums to see today, I limited myself to a little over an hour here. I had fun and got some ideas of other railway museums and historic train rides for my next visit.    Read more

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    South Australian Aviation Museum

    December 14, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C

    I went from one geeky hobby to another today, swapping the trains for planes. While this museum is mainly focussed on military aircraft (which isn’t generally my vibe), I was still excited to visit. One of the volunteers greeted me and took me into the main hangar, and explained which planes you can climb aboard. He then left me to my own devices.

    The two hangars were jam-packed from floor to ceiling with various different military and government-use planes. The Fokker Friendship (operated by CSIRO) was probably my favourite plane there. Sure, it was missing a wing to get it to fit, but still a cool-looking plane. There were a few other smaller planes that I got to sit in the cockpit of, bringing out my inner avgeek.

    Even the military planes caught my attention. There was enough information to get the gist of what the planes were used for without it being information overload - which I liked. There was even half of a BAE-146 cabin. This was one of the first planes I flew on between Melbourne and Canberra many years ago. Such a strange feeling sitting in these old seats and comparing them to what we get for seats nowadays.

    After taking an embarrassing number of selfies with a giant smile, and even more of each plane there, my hour was up (self-imposed). I’m glad I found this little museum area of Port Adelaide - who said Adelaide was boring? If you’re a geek, head out to Port Adelaide.    Read more

  • Travel with CarlTravel with CarlAdelaide: Train, Plane & Boats

    Seamen at the Maritime Museum

    December 14, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

    Planes, trains and automobiles… except substitute the cars for boats. The next museum stop on Port Adelaide was the Maritime Museum. I love planes and trains but am not really much of a seaman. I got seasick on a boat that was docked at a calm harbour once. That said, the maritime museum was there and given it’s called Port Adelaide, I figured it was worth a look.

    The building the museum is housed in is a beautiful old heritage building. This made a great location to learn about maritime history, which focused a lot on the poor conditions for workers and passengers and the ordeal of migration by ship. Like all maritime museums in Australia, a lot of the content relates to migration both pre and post WW2.

    My mother and family migrated to Australia onboard one of these vessels (although they arrived in Perth, not Adelaide). Thus looking at the mockup of the cabins was an interesting exercise in learning about how their journey must have been. I was just thinking how boring 45-70 days at sea must have been in these tiny cabins - the next exhibit focussed on boredom. They read my mind.

    The museum was modern, clean and really well put together… that said, having been on a plane and train high from the last museums, the nautical theme just didn’t hit me up as much. Maybe I should have taken a leaf out of Hyacinth Bucket’s book and dressed more seaman-like to really appreciate it. Reckon I could pull off a ‘Hello Sailor 😉’ look?    Read more

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