Well, after arriving in Adelaide, I met up with my friend Matt and his girlfriend Kelly. They immediately took me under their wing and whisked me off on a whirlwind tour of their relatives. After that they invited me to spend Christmas with them at a hired cottage near the wine growing region of the Clair valley.
Matt and Kelly had grown tired of rushing around visiting a million people on Christmas day, so they had decided to get away from it all and spend a chilled out Christmas with a few friends drinking eating and generally having a good time.
I know Kelly and Matt from my student days when I worked in a kitchen with Matt. He developed a fondness for whiskey while he was in Scotland, and came back and stayed with me earlier in the year while we visited some distilleries. He foolishly said I could come and stay with him for a little while when I came to oz, so there I was.
We arrived on Christmas day and chilled out at the cottage before everyone else arrived the next afternoon. Only leaving the cottage to go and visit a couple of nearby wineries. Its a hard life.
I was then introduced to Lisa, Nat, Christian and David. Lisa, nicknamed Pam because of her resemblance to Pamela Anderson and Christian, who might have escaped a nickname, are a couple that live in Adelaide and David is another friend of theirs that lives nearby. Nat, also called Pig-Dog I dont remember exactly why, used to work with Kelly and Pam, but moved to Melbourne so she was back in town for a few days to visit people.
A fine weekend of drinking wine and talking about nothing of any consequence ensued, a very pleasant way to spend your first christmas on the other side of the world from your family. All too quickly the weekend came to an end and I came back with Matt and Kelly and hung around their place like a bad smell, until I finally got myself in order and found myself a room in a house in the northern suburbs of Adelaide. My only concern now is finding myself some form of employment to fill the hours, and the bank account.
Posted by Craig at January 20, 2004 12:48 AM