Adelaide

After evening waffles in Subiaco with Kirsty & Vadik, morning chocolate brownie treats from Kirsty and 3-hour flight with Qantas, we found ourselves in Adelaide, South Australia – as car plates say: “SA, The festival state!”. Adelaide seemed to be larger and more packed, although statistics shows the opposite. Probably, defense and electronics industries leave their stamp and the city seems more occupied…

After landing in a backpackers place we decided to check tomorrow’s driving route and meet up with Andriy’s old friend. We will have to drive on average 4 hours per day, which is less than we initially expected. And only one part of the road seems to be dodgy and actually disappears from Google Maps half way to Mt. Isa – we gonna try it anyway :D

More Aussies that we met today – Brendan, Michelle and Alyssa – medical family from Adelaide. We stopped by their house near the beach, with strangely flat ocean, nice pier and stories about sharks. I liked the flat a lot! The rent is similar to Dublin, but much more space! Two motor bikes hidden in the garage – now we know, how Brendan spends his free time J

Seems like no one here is determined to stay in one place, and movement between big cities and states is quite common – at least on the consideration stage. Would be nice to get to know Brendan and Michelle better, as it’s hard to judge family life here from a single bite in the restaurant and short tour around the apartment…

Later on we went to search for sweet bomb car in New Zealand – had a big laugh and quite a lot of options… But that is worth a separate story…