First Month

Well it has been a little over a month since I arrived and I'm finally feeling as though I live here and am not a tourist. The first few weeks I lived out of a hotel, which was nice at times, but relatively boring at others. It was nice when Mark got here (about two weeks after). I had just moved into an apartment when he arrived which is fully furnished (great news considering a non-furnished place does not have a refrigerator).

After getting the apt settled we went car shopping. Ended up getting a Hyundai Gets - think really small. Its a three door with five seats. I'm pretty sure it would fit in the Subaru. But it gets us from A to B with very little gas. I don't have any great pictures yet -but will upload them as soon as I do.

Up until this weekend we have been playing tourists with our new found friends Keith and Sally (or K-Man and Sal as we call them) from the UK. Every Saturday the City has a market where all the farmers from the hills come down and sell their fruits and veggies. If you stay around long enough you can get some really good deals when everything goes on sale. It is kind of like our farmer's markets, but indoors and with 3 to 4 times the people. Mark and I decided to keep buying one new veggie when we go to try a new recipe that week.

We also walked about China Town - which is really a strip restaurants and cheap souvenir shops. I think it smelled really bad, but I'm told that the food is really good. Or at least it is really good at 1:00am on a Friday night before heading home...we have yet to see.

There is a little town south of the city called Holandorf. It is the oldest German town in South Australia. A very little town with one street to walk up and then back down again. It was nice and Mark was able to eat his first Schnitzel so all was worth the drive. Rumor has it that it is really hopping during October fest - so we will have to check that out.

Another tourist activity was going to the McLaren Vale wine and seafood festival. There were lots of wineries to choose from and you were able to go from one to another tasting their wines for a great price. We made it to five of them and found each one to be quite delightful. The scenery was amazing and the weather almost perfect. One wine valley down several more to go...

Check out some of my photos to these places in the link to the left "My Photos"!