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  • Greatest Adventure Yet....
    Day 50

    Northern Hemisphere Bound .... 🛩

    March 8 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 30 °C

    At the airport, we passed through check-in, security, and passport control remarkably quickly and easily. Right on time, we were being told to board our plane, and as we did, I couldn't help noticing the advert for my favourite Australian place - Kangaroo Island. As our Boeing 777-200 was only half full, we managed to queue jump and took off 🛫 a few minutes earlier than planned. In addition, Jayne and I had a full row of 4 seats 💺 all to ourselves, and so on this night flight managed to get a little sleep 😴 in between meals and the air turbulence ✈️ over Indonesia 🇮🇩. We landed 🛬 in Dubai at 05:18 some 13 hours after leaving Adelaide. As it was doubtful our room at the hotel would be available we slowly 🐌 made our wat through immigration and collected our bags before being shown to a nice posh "up-market" Toyota 🚘 to take us to Jumeirah Beach. Just 90 minutes after landing, we were being shown our room I'm the JA Ocean View Hotel and what a lovely room it is as well, due to a free upgrade we were given with a balcony overlooking the Ain Dubai; the world's tallest Observation Wheel at 250 metres high. From the far end of our balcony, we could see part of the famous Dubai Palm 🌴 and the Atlantis Hotel 🏨 there 😀 👍Read more

  • Greatest Adventure Yet....
    Day 50

    G'day from Adelaide & G'bye from us

    March 8 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 33 °C

    Very lazy morning for us, the first one for 7 weeks!! We spent the morning watching the news about the Cyclone Alfred 🌀🌫🌨☔️ making landfall on the Queensland coast, thinking it would just have been our kind of luck to be holidaying there!! After having brunch in a little cafe, we went to kill some time in the museum. Walking through the main shopping centre, we occasionally stopped to watch and listen to the street performers taking part in the Adelaide Festival. All finished off by a little retail therapy with a new hat for me and sunglasses 😎😎for us both. As the time went on, we were soon in the car 🚗 driving back to the airport for our overnight flight ✈️ to Dubai.Read more

  • Greatest Adventure Yet....
    Day 49

    Last night in Adelaide

    March 7 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

    After the Botanic Gardens, we walked back towards the hotel, looking at the street art 🎨 and meeting a dog after my own heart ❤️ 📷.
    Later on, refreshed and freshened up we we went for our meal at an Italian restaurant ITL, where jayne had salmon and I chose the pizza 🍕 😋. After our meal, we went for drinks at the Sol Hotel Roof Top Bar and watched the sun setting on our last night in Australia 🇦🇺.Read more

  • Greatest Adventure Yet....
    Day 49

    A Walk in the Park 🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️

    March 7 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C

    Our first morning in Adelaide was carefully planned. We did as many outdoor things as possible due to having to check out at midday tomorrow from our hotel. So the first thing was to find where we were eating tonight. Checking out Adelaide Train Station, we soon found the restaurant around the side. We carried on walking 🚶‍♂️ 🚶‍♀️ along North Terrace past many grand buildings as we made our way to the 1855 Botanic Gardens. On route, we passed the "walk-in" War Memorial, then quickly looked in at the South Australia State Library, where the Mortlock Chamber is an excellent example of a late Victorian Library and is consistently voted among the most beautiful libraries in the world. Stopping off to pay our respects to Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) who was a Royal Navy officer, navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland. Before arriving at the Botanical Gardens, which were nice, but because we are now at the end of summer, it was very green with not much flower 🌼 🌸 🌻 🌹 🏵 colour.Read more

  • Greatest Adventure Yet....
    Day 45

    Another Airport stay courtesy of Qantas

    March 3 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    Qantas, so unreliable you can rely on them. After getting well walking 🚶‍♂️ 🚶‍♀️ a couple of minutes from the hotel, we were checking our bags in and going through Security. Time for a coffee ☕️ and a breakfast pastry, we waited at Gate 50 for our flight ✈️ to Kingscote on Kangaroo Island. Half an hour before boarding, and our flight is cancelled. Qantas true to their word don't really care tell and tell us we are booked on the next available flight only 8 hours later but hey we will give you $30 each to buy food and non alcoholic drinks. But we won't tell you where from!! After playing the game, we finally get our $30 lunch and play the waiting game until 4:00 pm, and we can board our flight ✈️.
    At 16:37, we were rumbling down the runway in a small Dash 8-400. As soon as we were airborne, the air stewardess brought round water and snacks. As soon as they had finished, they were back collecting rubbish and saying fasten our seat belts. At 17:00, we were touching down at Kangaroo Island. We were met by Roger, a lovely guy from Peru who drove us the 1 hour back to the Sea Dragon accommodation complex. Driving past kangaroos, we arrived at reception where our bags carried on and were placed in our chalet. After a welcome drink and various formalities, we were taken yo our chalet, and wow, what a view.....we would have an unobstructed view straight down to the sea if it wasn't for a couple of kangaroos standing ant 30 feet from our verandah 🤣.
    Heading back to reception for our evening meal, which was lovely, we watched the waves crashing against the rocks, kangaroos eating, and the sun going down all at the same time.
    Before heading back yo our chalet, gazing at the stars and universe and creeping past a little wallaby.    Read more

  • TravelerAustralien
    Day 51

    Weiterflug nach Adelaide

    February 20 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C

    Trotz starkem Verkehr sind wir am Morgen gut nach Brisbane gekommen und haben uns von unserem Maui Van verabschiedet. Die Rückgabe ist schnell abgewickelt. Ein Taxi bringt uns zum Airport, wo wir das Innland-Check-in unaufgeregt hinter uns bringen.
    Angenehm bringt uns die Virgin Airline quer über den Kontinent von der Ost- zur Westküste, nach Adelaide. Beim Aussteigen Mitte Nachmittag, schlägt uns heisse, jedoch trockene Luft entgegen. Unser Hotel liegt weiter vom Zentrum entfernt, als wir es uns vorgestellt hatten. Ins pulsierende Leben der Stadt laufen wir gut und gerne 2 km. Eine gute Gelegenheit, unsere Beinmuskulatur zu trainieren. Mir ist aufgefallen, dass die australischen Damen egal wie schlank, ob jung oder alt, überdurchschnittliche Muskeln an den Beinen aufweisen 🤣
    Wir erkunden die Stadt von allen Seiten. Am ersten Morgen schliessen wir uns einer geführten Central Market Tour an. Einheimische Spezialitäten, werden uns zur Degustation angeboten. Die Stände sind zahlreich und werben für die Vielfalt der südaustralischen Küche. Diese widerspiegelt sich auch in den vielen Restaurants und Take-Away Angeboten, die die Strasse säumen, oder die an den vielen Plätzen zu finden sind. Man kann sich durch die Kulinarik der Welt schlemmen 🙂
    Wir spazieren dem River Torres entlang und sehen viele Parks und Grünanlagen. Die gesamte Innenstadt ist von einem riesigen Grüngürtel umgeben. Alte historische Gebäude mischen sich mit modernen Glasfassaden.
    Richtung Randle-Mall nähert man sich der pulsierenden Shoppingmile, die alles zu bieten hat, was das Herz begehrt.
    Kulturell bietet Adelaide ebenfalls sehr viel. Es gibt unzählige Museen und Kunstausstellungen. Gut nachvollziehbar, dass Adelaid im Vergleich mit anderen Städten, was die Lebensqualität betrifft, immer wieder sehr gut abschneidet und vordere Ränge belegt.
    Während unserem Aufenthalt ist eines der grossen Festivals. Am Samstagabend scheint die ganze Stadt auf den Beinen zu sein 🙂 Textilmässig ist alles erlaubt.
    Mitten im Chaos und bei sehr lauter Musik celebrieren wir unser Nachtessen, heute argentinisch. Für Kurt so etwas, wie Fasnacht-Ersatz 🤣    Read more

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  • TravelerWinter 2025
    211
    Day 22–23

    Nullarbor

    January 27 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    The Nullarbor Plain is a vast expanse area, mostly flat and very dry. Large expanses have no trees. There are gas stations intermittently on the main road, some with campgrounds and some with motels. The road is very straight and there were 2 sections where it was widened to become an airstrip. Landscape wise it is very similar to north eastern Botswana though there were no impalas about. Judging by the road signs there apparently are fauna though we only saw the road kill versions.
    We did 2 hard days of driving and emerged unscathed, if a little stiff. We travelled west to east and in the more eastern part (our second day) we had the opportunity to see the Australian Bight, which is gorgeous.    Read more

  • TravelerAbenteuer III
    41
    Day 53

    Adelaide III & Art Gallery

    January 18 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C

    Heute sollen es 35 Grad werden... also ruhig angehen lassen und möglichst wenig draußen aufhalten 😊

    Mit einem gemütlichen Spaziergang durch die Einkaufsstraße geht's zur Art Gallery mit anschließendem Carrot Cake und Limoncello Spritz... wenn es den zwischen 14 und 16 h für nur $10 gibt, muss ich das Angebot doch nutzen 🙃

    Das Café schließt um 17 h und ich suche mir eine neue Einkehrmöglichkeit - nun zum Abendessen am River Torrens.

    Ergänzung (und Übersetzung der Rundle Mall Homepage) zu den Schweinen in der Rundle Mall:
    Am 3. Juli 1999 begrüßte die Rundle Mall vier neue Bewohner – Horatio, Oliver, Truffles und Augusta. Diese lebensgroßen Schweine sind komplett aus Bronze gefertigt und scheinen einen tollen Tag in der Rundle Mall zu verbringen, während sie durch die Mall laufen, in den Mülleimern nach Essensresten wühlen und Passanten begrüßen.
    Die Kunstinstallation mit dem offiziellen Namen „A Day Out“ wurde von Marguerite Derricourt geschaffen, der Gewinnerin eines nationalen Skulpturenwettbewerbs, der von der Stadt Adelaide in der Endphase der Modernisierung der Rundle Mall Ende der 1990er Jahre initiiert wurde.
    Die Menschen in Adelaide liebten die Schweine so sehr, dass ein Wettbewerb veranstaltet wurde, um ihnen Namen zu geben. Neben jedem Schwein befindet sich eine Tafel mit seinem Namen und dem Namen der Person, die es benannt hat.
    Kinder und Erwachsene sieht man oft, wie sie die beliebten Schweine umarmen, auf ihnen sitzen und für Fotos mit ihnen posieren, wenn sie in der Rundle Mall unterwegs sind.    Read more

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  • Chelsea & Dan’s Gap Year 2025
    1
    Day 4–6

    Adelaide

    January 10 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C

    Caught the 10hr Overland from Melbourne to Adelaide, on which Dan bought a very fetching hat so that everyone will know he's a train enthusiast.

    Melbourne marked the end of the 'bearable weather' portion of the year. We arrived in Adelaide to 33⁰C at 5pm, and it's only going to get hotter for the rest of January as we travel up into the Northern Territory.

    Despite the heat, here are a few reasons we loved Adelaide;

    1. Adelaide Central Market: 12/10, best market in Australia. Just exceptional - it has everything. Chelsea would move here just for the strength of the cheese game.

    2. Glenelg Beach - our last chance to dip in the ocean for a few weeks. This is a great beach and the easiest to access from Adelaide, plus we went on a sunny Saturday morning at the end of the school holidays. Given how busy the beaches are in Sydney, we were expecting to have to deploy our elbows to get a spot. But it was half empty! Maybe the water is toxic and locals know better than to swim in it, but if so that's a price worth paying.

    3. Art Gallery of South Australia. Probably the best curated gallery we've been to in the whole country (maybe the world).

    4. National Wine Centre of Australia. Self serve wine tasting on tap. Weird, but also great?! Mixed review on the wines, but somehow they all seemed to taste better and better after the first five...

    All in all, a successful two-day flying visit. Now we're back on the Greyhound for a 19hr (🥲) coach to Alice Springs. See you in the NT...    Read more

  • TravelerAustralienreise 2024/25
    1112
    Day 17

    Adelaide

    January 6 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    Die letzte Nacht hat es im Meningie geregnet und als wir aufstanden war es nass und kühl. Wir sind dann um 7.30 Uhr wieder losgefahren Richtung Adelaide auf der Fahrt hat es geregnet und es war sehr verhangen. Als wir im Hotel ankamen, (wir hatten heute nur eine kurze Fahrt) konnten wir noch Frühstücken, es war sehr abwechslungsreich und gut. Im Hotel haben sie uns gesagt, dass sie am 5. Januar über 31 Grad hatten und heute waren es noch 17 Grad, es soll am Nachmittag aber besser werden. Das war so, als wir uns auf einen Stadtbummel begaben kam die Sonne zum Vorschein und schenkte uns etwas wärme. So war das Wetter heute sehr abwechslungsreich, Jacke an, Jacke ab usw. Wir haben noch den Botanischen Garten besucht, in einem Gebäude befanden sich verschiedene Pflanzen durchzogen mit mundgeblasenen Glaskunstwerken, die dich in die Pflanzen integriert haben. Draussen sahen wir Bäume die voll behangen waren mit Flughunden, das war sehr eindrücklich. Der ganze Park rahmt den Stadtkern von Adelaide ein und ist wunderbar angelegt. Nach dieser schönen Tour genehmigten wir uns einen Apéro in der Höhe mit Sicht auf die Fussgängerzone. Nach einer Ruhepause im Hotel assen wir am Abend im Hotelrestaurant ein feines Znacht. Jetzt gehts ab ins Bett, weil es morgen um 6.15 Uhr wieder weiter geht.Read more

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