Stirling Memorial Gardens

Had another rainy day here in Adelaide. Woke up to it and a damp dog.

Ended up just sitting on the sofa job hunting and reading all morning. Listened to the rain outside and planned my next step.

In the afternoon Lucy, Helen and I headed up into the hills to a market in Stirling. It was raining rather hard at this point but there were still lots of people out. The entire town centre seemed to have been taken over by this market, stalls along lots of roads and car parks. I really wish I needed something and could carry it, because I have been to a lot of markets in Adelaide and in each there has been something I have wanted to buy.

After getting thoroughly rained on, we took shelter at the very popular and very nice Red Cacao. It is a cafe but sells primarily chocolate based things. Helen and I had a Dark hot chocolate and Lucy had a Vienna hot chocolate. It was very nice, and I am glad I chose the dark as it was very rich. I think the milk choclate would have been too sweet for me. They came on these cute little platters as well. We did a but of snooping at what other guests had ordered and there was a lot of choclate on some of them, like a heart attack on a plate. But they did look cool, artistically speaking. Eating them would have bee far too much.

Next we drove to Hahndorf. As the name suggests the town was settled by Germans after the war and still has a lot of German influences. Many of the cafes included pretzels or schnitzel on their menus, I was very tempted to buy myself a pretzel as I haven't had one in ages, and they were just so good. But sadly I refrained.

From there were drove the long way back down through the hills, the scenery is stunning in rain or shine. And came back to the house. We had the sunday family meal again, pizza this time, and relaxed for the evening.Читать далее