Adelaide

So yet again we set off for another break. This time however we were forced to leave Grant home alone( no more holiday leave!) whilst the girls and me jetted off for sunnier climes leaving sourpuss sulking in his cave back in Melbourne.

This break involved once again the Archard Clan , also leaving their paternal figure at home working whilst Sarah did the six and a half hour drive across country to Adelaide.

Our main reason for treking to this part of Oz was to catch up with friends from Vet school , Claire and Gerry whom had relocated to Adelaide some three years previously.Unfortunately our third dick vet veteran whom also lives in Adelaide, had left for a " holiday" in the North of Britain enjoying the best that British weather could throw at him and boy did it throw some big ones this winter, so glad we missed that but sorry that we missed him!

On our arrival Gerry and Claire kindly picked us up from the airport and then proceeded to take us to the beach as shark bait. I watched in fear as my kids frolicked in the sea along with the Archards, checking the horizon for any sign of a raised fin. I was rewarded with the sight of numerous fins emerging from the waves and only partly put at ease as my friends reassured me these belonged to a pod of dolphins and then returned to panic again when we saw a helicopter overhead as these, I was informed, tended to follow sharks for visiting tourists to photograph from above.

Still it was a very nice beach and a very nice afternoon as was the thai we enjoyed that night in central Adelaide, but dont ask me which street as I never got to grips with the Adelaide system of roads and travelling in different directions at different times of the day, oh and a sat nav with a sense of humour and short term memory loss!