Adelaide November 2006

Justin's Log Date: 11 November 2006 5.00 a.m Day 1
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This trip consist a group of monash students, including Eujin, Yin Chien, Wei sern, Rayner and me. Population 5. lmao.

As time passed I made sure that Rayner brought his protector for my comp. This is our journey to Adelaide, the City of Churches.

Coach S, Seat 38. 7.20 a.m.
We left the house just after 6am with the minor inconvinence of getting a goodie bag that we left behind. We manage to catch the 6.15 bus to Huntingdale but barely. There we took the train to Southern Cross station where our 'Cross Country' train awaited us.

Our train was due to depart at 7.30am and we had to get the tickets from the booth before boarding. Once down, we brisked to platform 2 and Eu Jin darted off to get our tickets. And we were off, in Coach S od the Overlander. We were poofed from not sleeping. Nonetheless as I finish this entrym, we are just minutes away from depating Melbourne on a 10 hour journey to Adelaide.

Yu Sheng's Place, 11.45pm
We arrived at Adelaide's Railway station a little after 6 pm. After collecting our luggage and some brochures we took a free shuttle down to the city. Initially we thought of stopping at Rundle Street but told the bus driver to drop us off at Victoria Square.


And as some twisted perverted fate, we ended up in the middle of a procession. Not just any parade. The Adelaide Pride Parade. Gays, Lesbos, 'whores', the happy and the SM all in one parade celebrating what they believe in. How appropriate it was that it was held on 'Hindley Street'. Wat a first step in to a new city.

We met up with Eujin's friend Yu Sheng and his gf and had an awesome dinner at Grote Street. The dinner was awesome , Duck Kangaroo, alligator meat all fantastic. That night we were suppose to head on to our friend's place down south, towards Glenelg, but was stopped by the rain so here we will stay the night in a three storey apartment since everyone was dead tired.

Justin's Log Date: 13 November 2006, 1.30 a.m Day 2
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In the morning, we left for Paradise Community Church. We took the famous O-bahn bus to the Paradise Interchange where we met another of Eujin's friends.

The service wen on till 1pm and we went for lunch. We had 2 pizza rissoto, pasta and garlic bread at the Cafe Primo. After lunch, Icecream was in order at Cold Rock. After a run to Rundle Mall, we separate and wandered around the city on our own.

The Info Center was closed, so we thought of going ourselves to the key places. The state Library was first. But it was about to close, so it was merely a pitstop for mitcurating and refilling our bottles. We then visited Uni SA and then the botanical Garden.




Next we wandered around till we found ourselves in the Cinema watching BoyTown. Show was hilarious. Anyway we had a late dinner and took our stuff to Stop 14 of the tram to Eujin's other Friend Elaine.

Justin's Log Date: 14 November 2006, 12.10 am Day 3
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We started pff in the morning with a trip to Thrifty on Hindley Street. We left Marion Street by foot and reached the place 15 past the hour with an allowance of a small mishap of Jin's wallet and handphone.

We decided to head to the Jam factory to see how glass was made. Then we headed to the Car, the Mitsubishi 380. A good car with Lots of space.





And off we were to Handorf the Oldest German town in Australia. The highlight of the it was of course the food, lunch at the Handorf Inn where we had lots of sausages. And a beer for Eu Jin. Meeting RuO and his Angels along the way.





The Strawberry farm was next. 2 Dollars entry, we gobbled up as many strawberries as we could, picked up some for friends and had loads of fun as well.





Then we left for Mt. Lofty Summit with some detours along the way.

Next up was the St. Flinders University. Go visit our host elaine 'studying hard' for her exam.
Next we left for the city, made some last minute shopping for the next day. and finally head to the pancake shop.

I had 'IT'a sweet pancake stack with syrup rock nuts and jamacian bananas for 10 bucks.
After the reunion we went to one of the fantastic apartments 'Botanical Apartments', really nice, chatted up with some friends and finally headed home to bed.

Hawker, Justin's Log Date: 14th November 2006, 10.30 pm Day 4
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Left Elaine's at 9. went to Barossa valley for lunch and a couple of drinking stops like Penfold.
Next came a 4 hour journey North till we decided it was time to stop. We stopped at a town called Hawker, got a self-contained Motel thingy for about 130 bucks and began our rest. We decided to head up to Flinders Ranges the next day.

Elaine's, Justin's log Date 16th November 2006, 2.00 am Day 5
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We had a good start. It was about half an hour's ride to the Trail head site of Wilpena. There we travelled up a 2 hour return trail to a lookout point. Making interesting videos and pictures especially at one of the cliffs. Oh yea..lol

It was another 4-5 hour journey back. By the time we reached Adelaide, we were able to go to Glenelg got dinner (oysters) and see the beach.



Then it was supper with Elaine and Melissa (though Weisern wasnt feeling well and I had to dissappear in the car for a long bit). They had drinks, while rayner and I had orange juice.
Then it was real pizza to finish the night.

Tenten Bayview, Justin's log Date: 16th November 2006, 10.30 am Day 6
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We were out of Elaine's by 9 something, returned the car by ten and walked to somewhere north of the city for brunch. YC left us for a bit to meet another friend. It was good as we had an abortion. this slab of chips, lamb sour cream and sweet chilli sauce. MMMM.



Then we made our way back to Haigh's choco in the city, met up with YC and headed to the airport. That concluded our 6 Day journey of Adelaide. It was fun, nostalgic, interesting, and lame to say the least an enjoyable roadtrip for all of us.