An expat Brit in South Australia
TOP DESTINATION FOR FOODIES What’s the collective noun for a plurality of posh eateries? A pinch, a handful, a mouthful, a bite? Here they call it a precinct, perhaps ambitiously. The area around the intersection of King William with our cultural boulevard, North Terrace, including Leigh and Peel Streets, is Adelaide’s new high dining zone.
Australia’s world music festival Under the boughs of the trees, under the stars, an impromptu fashion parade of sarongs, saris, ponchos, kaftans, an Indian prince floats by, hippy goddesses materialise. It must be Womadelaide, Australia’s world music festival.
Carmel, the genteel Californian coastal resort whose people are so polite, has no rules of precedence at junctions and no road markings. Instead they have ‘all way crossings.’ Anywhere else this would be a game of dare, but here it’s all “you go first…”, “No, you go first…”
Dr D in Oz 