More Adelaide shots

we discovered GIANT rice krispie cakes or as they call them here (coz rice crispies are called crackles) chocolate crackles!

Two chocolate fountains, yum.

I brought the ol'bag on this holiday. I also brought this rucksack........

Mick meets the locals

Mick met some long lost relations last week in perth......

Polkamania

My polka band played for 6000 people at a beer festival last friday, it was sheer lunacy!!!!!

doggycam

Coopers

We came across a Coopers shop in the Adelaide airport, really great shop with heaps of homebrew stuff.

puppet shop

We found a great puppet shop in Handorf, check out the one on the bottom right...

Handorf Mangle

We had the german tasting plate one night, man what a feast, a good vet could have made an entire pig out of what was on the plate


And here is the path of those crazy german beer loving settlers. PROST!

Funny signs in Handorf

Pheasent-cam

We went to Maggie Beers place whilst we were in adelaide and came across this chap

Beautiful plumage...

Reverse angle

And here are the two chicks he was trying to impress

More holiday snaps

Nice car in Glenelg, the town thats also a palindrome

Big wheel. Big.

One evening whilst Jane was playing a concert with her flute choir cohorts I spent a few hours playing jazz along with some old grapelli recordings, it was really nice

Rentacar. A toyota yaris, where the display is centrally mounted, took a bit of getting used to.

More Adeladian Somniferty

Wine valley, McLaren Vale, I have only been on a handfull of wine valley excursions, this one was pretty good except for the tour guide. For what was a 9 hour day out we spend about 2 of those hours in a winery, the rest was in the back of a mini-bus pulling G-forces as he cornered the hills at top speed. Poor form.

Mill wheel. Big.

Beach. Sandy.

Giraffes. Tall.

Adelaide

We have been in Adelaide for the last week and a bit, during the school holidays and found the place to be extremely dull, I wouldn't recommend going there. On the plus side though, I did manage to use google maps lots on my N95 which helped us find interesting restaurants, places which were actually open! and various wineries, farms door to door to within 3 metres. Score one for Google!

More from the violin lesson

First Violin Lesson

Pat took Finn and Oliver for their first violin lesson the other morning, it was very exciting, everybody came over and helped out.

Here are Pat and Martin making the little violins

Strad model 254 "The Book".......

Here are the lads on their own place mats getting really stuck in

And then the tricky part, teaching the grown ups!