travelling allrite

Most flights out of Adelaide Airport seem to head right over the city. Although it's not a big International destination, I've seen flights heading out to distant lands. Our own destination today was a slice of Germany, but via quite a roundabout route. I knew Ryan online via the airliners.net website and we met up with him in Singapore over a decade ago when Alex was but 9 months old. Since then he'd moved to Adelaide and we arrange to meet up for an early lunch at a Vietnamese Pho place near his workplace. The pho is excellent and so was the conversation. Unfortunately, Alex feels sick and makes a mess on his shoes. They're an old pair, but we need a replacement! Back in Sydney, not a problem. We know where the shopping centres are. In outer Adelaide we have no clue. What's more, we don't want to go too far off course. I'm driving and B can't navigate. We try one shopping centre, nothing but a rubbish bin for the stinking shoes. And enough time to sear...

The best way to explore a city is on foot, unless you actually are the foot involved. Sometimes the legs and the rest of the body as well. However, the brain had decided that it was sick of driving and couldn't be bothered working out bus routes, so it was up to the legs and feet to do the work of taking us around Adelaide city. The first destination of the day is the Adelaide Zoo, a good couple of kilometres away. Up the road and past Rundle Mall, across the bridge over the Torrens River opposite the impressively rebuilt Adelaide Oval. The main roads of this well planned city are broad and planted with trees. Along with the old buildings, it reminds me a bit of Melbourne. Certainly not Sydney. We walk along the northern bank of the Torrens and through the parkland. It is a pleasant walk but for the summer heat. Of that, there is plenty. There are ducks, pelicans and moorhens in and alongside the river and plantations of roses and other flowers whose sight and scent remind me of my...