Hahndorf and Woodside

Years ago travelling to Adelaide we always whizzed through the little towns that were in the Adelaide hills, today we visited two of them. Things do come to those who wait!

Hahndorf was a German settlement and as such has a German flavour. German pantry and bakeries were in the main street but we couldnt go past the farm produce for lunch,  sitting on the side walk. Coffee cups were dipped in chocolate and we were told that it was fine to lick the cups that everyone else does. I used my spoon to scrape the chocolate off. (more walking required tomorrow)

It has become the place to go on the weekends from Adelaide and has lots of little shops, heaps of eating places and galleries. I am so glad that we are in the caravan as even though I am tempted to buy things, the lack of space and extra weigh is a very good deterrent.

Although I was a little naughty today and bought a jacket off a sale rack, very pretty blue, unfortunately I had to go inside to pay and oh my lordy, what a treasure trove that was and the lady was a very good salesperson, yes I bought another top as well. She wasnt pushy just very helpful.

There was a German shop selling all types of German merchandise from small wooden toys to massive grandfather cuckoo clocks, stunning.

This was the tree lined road out of Hahndorf and on to Woodside and surprise surprise, the GPS lady actually said them correctly!

Woodside had a chocolate factory and a cheese tasting side by side, what more could anyone want (well maybe a nice wine and there was plenty of those in the area too)

Alongside the shop were areas that customers could watch the chocolate being made. Very good marketing as very few people would go to see without buying any and yes, we did buy a few samples.

Getting ready for Easter, these rabbits were about fifteen inches tall, 35cms.

After the chocolate came the cheese and yes, we did buy a couple of blocks of cheese too.

Driving back to the freeway, fuel was advertised at 99.9cents a litre, what a good buy and we did need fuel so a plus for us.

Finished off the day by having dinner with a couple of nieces and one hubby. A good day. 

Trees

I love South Australian trees, they are so massive! Every time we came back I realise that they are something that I miss seeing.

This is one that is in our caravan park.

It is called The Monarch of the Glen and is reported to be over 400 years old. Apparently aboriginal families used to live in it. It is still living and is behind a gated and locked fence.

St Kilda Adventure Playground

A free adventure playground for kids of all ages. It was a cool day today and we had talked about going out somewhere for a picnic lunch so we combined the two.

Jordan is up the top among other kids.

Warren and Aidan came down this but I think I missed them.

It was about 45 minutes away from the caravan park but well worth it.

On the way we drove past Scotties motel. Love Scotties ever since we went there to stay for a night soon after we were married, yep! That long ago!

Warren had stayed there once for work and they all pigged out on oysters kilpatrick, work was picking up the tab!

When we stayed there a year or so later, he suggested I try them, yum! love them but unfortunately Warren cant eat them any more because of the soy and his gluten stuff.

Miss Fisher's clothes

At Ayre house today and until Sunday 14 Feb is a display of her clothes/costumes that were made for the show including hats.

There were about six or seven rooms with the costumes and telling which series they were used in.

In front of the dresses was an explanation of who made it, there were four main dressmakers for the show, what episode they were in and most times a swatch of material that could be felt. Many of the fabrics were silk as she does play a well to do miss.

Much of the beading and lace work has been hand sewn. I bought one of the DVDs and was watching an episode yesterday when I heard about the display, so pleased to have been able to see it, even though I am def not a fashionista as such.

Adelaide the city of Churches

There really are some beautiful old buildings in Adelaide, some of them are Churches.

We were going to the city today by bus,well that fell in a heap as we couldn't get into the shopping centre to buy a ticket for the bus, then we couldn't find anywhere to park to walk to the shops. Warren says stuff it we will drive to Hindmarsh square, about eight kms away and then walk to North terrace.

Found a park, with a big 3, no problems then I read the sign more closely, darn, 3 hours was on weekends, one hour was for Mon to Fri. Buggar, thats no good to us. GPS, find a parking station, ha! only 110 metres, only trouble was it was full. Finally we found one reasonably close and wound our way up to the top. ducking our heads in the car as it was low! One metre point nine five, not sure how high our car is but it couldnt have clear it by much.

Walking to Ayre House we saw that the museum had an exhibition on Coober Pedy, whoops did a swift left turn and paid a visit. Excellent showing would run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars for all the opal that was on display. There was even a mock up of an underground mine, not sure if photos were allowed but I didn't take any, it was amazing.

Lunch was pretty good. Think we blew the budget today but did see two unusual exhibitions.

The Art Gallery, we did step in here as we had been told that there had been an aboriginal art display unfortunately it had finished. The building was pretty impressive though. 

 

Riding the Tramways in Adelaide.

We drove to Glenelg this morning to catch the tram into the city.

It was a beautiful day around 32 degrees, the sky was blue and the sun was out and so were a lot of people.

Two and three year olds had been running thru the fountains, just lucky to get a time when they were all out (I dont like to take pics of little kids)

This was the tram we caught.

I wanted to have lunch in the mall but there didnt seem to be many places to actually eat so we went downstairs to the underground food mall. OMGoodness what a choice, we went to a Japanese eating place and I got sushi.

Our lunch.

Mall entertainment but this guy was the best and boy was he working hard.

Birdwood National Motor Museum.

We couldnt go past this the other day. I was surprised at how big it was and the amount of cars and bikes that were displayed. I also loved the building that it used to be in which had been an old flour mill.

Inside the museum.

and the bikes

It reminded me of a Chinese shopping centre but these were all different. Warren went looking for his bike, didnt find it but did find a bike he was given a ride on, it was a 1100 something.  I remember him saying after the ride that it went from nothing to 70mph with no effort at all. Much bigger than anything he had ridden before or since.

I remember seeing this one one at the Olypmics, it was a real phone and the athletes could ring home for free.

There was also a pursuit car with Detroit Police Dept on it which seemed a little out of place until we read the info on it. Apparently the cars were designed and produced in Australia for the Northern American police force as they had a long wheel base, I did not know that. Strange that GMH would export cars to America but that was what it stated.