As I said I've spent my time job hunting, but thats not what I came half way round the world to do, so I havent entirely filled my time with it. I have done a fair few of the normal touristy things.
Just east of Adelaide is the very German town fo Hahndorf, filled with a wide assortment of twee touristy shops, all german themed. Matt and Kelly took me out there and showed me round the little towns sights, including sweet shops and various purveyors of sausages and other meats. We also had a beautiful lunch at a pub in town, along with a little bit of German beer. Though I can't help but feel I've come to slightly the wrong place for German beer.
Undeterred by the nagging feeling that it isnt quite right having german beer in Australia, I pressed on with the German theme and visited the Schutzenfest, a German themed annual festival filled with lederhosen and cabbage, and of course beer. A pleasant evening of beer drinking and mild amusement at grown men dancing around in silly leather shorts followed.
South Australia is the festival state, and they arent kidding. The next weekend I visited a Greek festival, which to be fair was just a big party with lots of greek people really. But its a festival none the less, and I felt obliged to sample the ethnic delicacies, namely a yiros, which is really just a kebab, and some ridiculously sweet cakes.
This weekend I have the italian festival to look forward to, so again I'm anticipating a significant amount of eating. Eating seems to be the general theme of Adelaide, they say there is around 1 restaurant for every 30 people, which is nice, but there is a refreshing amount of live music around as well, I'm going to see my new favourite band Little Birdy this weekend as well. All in all its pretty civilised really.
Posted by Craig at February 2, 2004 01:09 AMLittle Birdy! No Way - all the indie kids at work and Little Birdy fans now too ;)
Posted by: Shell at February 5, 2004 10:59 PM