An expat Brit in South Australia
River life ambience What comes to mind when thinking of Australian travel experiences? Bondi and beaches? Uluru and outback? The Great Ocean Road/Barrier Reef? Big things? (Big Lobster, Big Banana, Big Pineapple, etc.) How about a mighty river flowing through three states of the driest continent on the planet? In a land “girt by sea”
Without the wintry markers of Halloween, Bonfire Night and the onset of cold weather, it’s hard to remember that Christmas is coming. Fortunately, that’s when the local custom of the Christmas Pageant comes in. Glenelg’s Jetty Road is lined with up to 30,000 people. Kids armed with multi-coloured chalk are encouraged to express their own form of ‘street
The normally casually dressed citizens of Adelaide are transmogrified into extravagant headwear adorned glamour models on the tram. What can this mean? It’s Melbourne Cup day again, as the whole country stops for a horse race. Our office meeting wrapped up early so we could watch it. Sadly my horse in the office sweep came twentieth out
Dr D in Oz 