Sometimes the advantages of being in a huge landmass with a population smaller than the City of Leicester, become apparent. Spent our last morning in Adelaide at the Turner art exhibition. This was the exhibition that had been in London a year or so ago which we'd missed so we pitched up at the art gallery expecting to join a huge queue. We still bear the scars from the last major art exhibition we attended (Monet in Paris) which was unbearably overcrowded and hardly gave room to see the pictures.
How fantastic then that we were able to waltz straight in when the art gallery opened, no queues and we were able to walk round the amazing collection of Turner paintings at our own pace. Fabulous!
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| South Australia Art Gallery, Adelaide |
From our limited time in Adelaide it appears that it's a lovely City. Wide tree lined streets, some interesting "old" buildings and clean and tidy both in the City and the suburbs. Great shopping too but we didn't have time to investigate that!
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| Museum of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Wide, tree lined streets in the Centre |
Yesterday we spent the day in the Borossa Valley, about an hour North of Adelaide. Very attractive area with more wineries to the square inch than we've ever seen! As we were driving we only went to one wine tasting but it would be very easy to get legless here every day of the week.
We decided to go to the Jacobs Creek winery. Mostly because it's a wine that we can buy in the UK but one that we normally dismiss! Having tasted a good selection of whites and reds we were favourably impressed with several and will look out for them in Tesco. Also visited a lavender farm which would have been more impressive earlier in the season (it's autumn here) but still smelt lovely, a sculpture park and a farm shop run by an Aussie TV Chef, Maggie Beer as well as some of the little villages. Great place for a leisurely mooch.
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| View over Barossa Valley, North of Adelaide |
Set off on the 750+ kilometre trek back to Melbourne this afternoon. We couldn't resist a slight detour to visit the metropolis of Sherlock! This tiny hamlet has an important place in the history of the area. The Sherlock Hundred was created in 1899, named after a mate of the local Governor. It even had it's own railway station with station master in the early 20th Century when its pioneering occupants scraped a living from felling timbers for the new railway.
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| Welcome to Sherlock, South Australia |
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| A bit of history |
Finally we know here the Sherlock Bore is to be found! Good work down under M&M!
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