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Day 14, Sunday, 15th February, 2009

We are now at Mt. Barker which is not far from Adelaide. I think we arrived on Thursday (all the days are starting to merge) and are planning to leave tomorrow morning. On Friday, we visited Hahndorf, a little German village about 6 kms away. It was great but I would love to spend more time there. I loved the Candlemaker's Shop and the clock shop. We bought some sausages - spinach, pinenuts and chicken - which I'm hoping to have tonight. A lot of the shops didn't open until 10:00 so we had some strudel and coffee while we waited. It was really nice.

A pub in Hahndorf.


In the afternoon, I caught a bus into Adelaide. It took about an hour but was quite pleasant. We travelled through lots of the little towns at the base of the hills and the scenery was beautiful. I found Adelaide disappointing. It's just the same as other big cities. I didn't find any interesting or unusual shops, pretty much the same as everywhere else. BUT, I'm glad I had the experience and the pigs in the city were cute.



Pigs in the city.


Yesterday, Saturday, my cousin Steve and his wife Annette, picked us up at 8:30 a.m. and took us all around the area. We visited Goolwa and a lot of other places particularly around the Murray River. It was quite a shock to see how low the water is. Boats have been left stranded on sand and some don't have a hope of getting to the water. Very, very sad. We really enjoyed our time with Steve and Annette but unfortunately, I got car sick, which was not nice. In the evening, Steve shouted us pizza and we talked about different places to stop and stay on our trip. Quite sad to have to say goodbye.



The Murray River with boats left stranded.

Today, Chris went in to meet up with a friend from Hydro days while I stay and worked on this blog and talked to Kier etc.