Jenny took me on a business trip to Adelaide!  It’s a quiet place, quite genteel, and people are keen to say hello and ask which bit of England you are from.  I had the airport bus to myself so the driver suggested some tourist stuff for me to do, and dropped me opposite the Parliament building, where I got a guided tour.  I went to a very touristy Germa village in the beautiful Barossa Valley and did some awesome wine and cheese tasting, but the best bit was seeing in the flesh some amazing water colours by the German artist Hans Heysen.  He was famous for his depictions of pastoral scenes, especially gum trees.  Oh to be able to paint like that (still, I have got some time to practise)

 

I loved botanic garden which is full of north European plants and has 2 wonderful glasshouses, one very modern and angular, the other a Victorian masterpiece full of cacti. a very touristy German village in the beautiful Barossa Valley (wine and cheese tasting), and the immigration museum.  And I was really amused to see a posse of uniformed tall men and tiny ladies striding along the street in their bush hats, police I assume, but I never found out. 

 

This little South Australia taster was all rounded off with a lively Greek dinner with Jenny, a bit of special Mum & Jen time.