They like it Big in SA

Dave and I are all about doing things big. From the big banana to the big Lobster at Kingston SE. We love all the nation’s big icons. We travelled along the Limestone Peninsular heading for the big apple they call Adelaide down here. We came head first into a Steam Train (which the troppy one) to the best German places in Australia. A touristy town of Hahndorf is the oldest German town in the country so without hesitation we explored and went the whole way; to the oldest pub and with a Stein of beer for Dave and a 300ml Ale for me (cheers to Thomasu in Germany) we thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere. All we needed was more beer and those German girls with their jugs.

We spent two nights at Hackney Caravan Park which was a 20 minute walk to the city. This place was a major introduction to the local Adelaid’ians. The guy who owns the CP drove everywhere in his golf cart and expected everything his way when he asked very directly “how long is your vehicle exactly?” without a hello or any sort of acknowledgement. I said roughly 5.5m and a little more for the ladder. So he seemed pissed off about the length and then even more so when we couldn’t fit into his preferred site. To truly understand how precise he was we needed to record it but under the pure shock of his attitude and correctness we forgot. If anyone has met my father, think how he uses numbers, directions and figures and times that by 10 with a grumpy attitude. After he directed my reserving in the site to the exact angle he wouldn’t let me out of the car until I heard the 10 commandments of the park. The full on drill! Once he left, we got talking to this lovely couple Julie and Daryl and soon realised it just wasn’t us he add an attitude towards, laughing in disbelief. So maybe this Adelaid’ian needs some better social skills.

The next day our new friends were lovely enough to give us a lift into the city;it was all about going shopping...for farm boots. The highlight for me was having a nanny nap on the river and Dave’s was meeting Jamie Cox the Australian cricket selector/opening batsman for SA and AUS the day Ricky Pointing chose the step down. Dave missed his opportunity to asked who the next captain would be...good one.