After great last night in Melbourne we found ourselves sat at Avalon airport feeling a little sluggish, Those margaritas were good though, well why wouldn't ya? Deano dropped us off and was then heading back to Ocean Grove for a surf, the lucky git. Well why wouldn't ya. For us two Adelaide awaited us.
Not a great start as on checking into our hostel at Adelaide we realized that we had mislaid our passports! Ahhhh. After a rather hairy 30 mins and some frantic calls to airlines, airport and the like we are told that we had left them on the plane. Double Ahh. I wouldn't recommend this type of manoeuvre for the weak hearted. This resulted in one of us, Dave drew the shortest straw, cycling back to the airport to collect them. Treble ahh. Have you ever tried to cycle to a airport complex, I can tell you its a nightmare and not really worth trying unless your forced too. Now this is the first type of boob on the trip. Were blaming it on the fact that we were doing an internal cheapy flight that had such a low luggage allowance we were forced to either wear or carry a fair amount of our belongings. Imagine what we looked like at check-in! The moment of relief to reach out and hold our passports again was pretty much beyond words. We think the flight up to Cairns will now be executed with military precision. Back to full baggage allowance, and no pre-margaritas will be tolorated !!
Our first morning and we woke at 7am to the sounds of christmas carols belting out over the tannoy. The streets were lined with 200 thousand odd festive folk hollering and singing christmas songs. Indeed today Christmas had arrived, its was Adelaide's christmas pageant. They were going for a world record for the most carol singers, 9116 to be precise, sang in tune of course for 15 minutes.
Locals were complaining of the cold at 20 degrees. Understandable we guessed as we were told last year it was 35 degrees. 86 floats rolled past us but it just didn't seem christmasy. Father christmas in flip flops? All seemed very strange to a couple of north hemisphere peeps.
Not a great start as on checking into our hostel at Adelaide we realized that we had mislaid our passports! Ahhhh. After a rather hairy 30 mins and some frantic calls to airlines, airport and the like we are told that we had left them on the plane. Double Ahh. I wouldn't recommend this type of manoeuvre for the weak hearted. This resulted in one of us, Dave drew the shortest straw, cycling back to the airport to collect them. Treble ahh. Have you ever tried to cycle to a airport complex, I can tell you its a nightmare and not really worth trying unless your forced too. Now this is the first type of boob on the trip. Were blaming it on the fact that we were doing an internal cheapy flight that had such a low luggage allowance we were forced to either wear or carry a fair amount of our belongings. Imagine what we looked like at check-in! The moment of relief to reach out and hold our passports again was pretty much beyond words. We think the flight up to Cairns will now be executed with military precision. Back to full baggage allowance, and no pre-margaritas will be tolorated !!
Our first morning and we woke at 7am to the sounds of christmas carols belting out over the tannoy. The streets were lined with 200 thousand odd festive folk hollering and singing christmas songs. Indeed today Christmas had arrived, its was Adelaide's christmas pageant. They were going for a world record for the most carol singers, 9116 to be precise, sang in tune of course for 15 minutes.
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