Ashes to Ashes (Adelaide)

Just in case you weren't aware, whilst we were in Adelaide we went to the Ashes game, where we won convincingly. David pretty much sat on his rear-end whenever the cricket was broadcast on terrestrial tv (in Oz, this is the case whenever a match is sold out). There aren't many better experiences than being in Australia and beating the home side at sport (oh, how I recall the Rugby) but sadly where cricket is concerned and our historical Oz trips it's all been a pretty humiliating experience. So we are very happy wearing boots, or even thongs, on the other feet!
The majority of our stay in Adelaide was with the family, bar our first night which ended up being our last with the Oz Bus 20 family in the City. We also spent a night in Glenelg - a lovely coastal suburb a short way out of the City.
David also took the opportunity to travel on Adelaide's Guided Busway - as the one in Cambridgeshire still doesn't appear to be up and running just yet. Boy, it's fast and cuts through some pretty countryside on the way to a huge shopping complex.
Staying in Port Willunga gave us ready and close access to the McLaren Vale wineries and our first visit of this tour down under took us to Hardy's Tatachilla where it was compulsory to buy a 12 bottle case of fizzy red wine - happy times.
One thing we have increasingly noticed during our trip is a desire to take photographs of not just mealtimes, but to actually photograph the plate of food you are eating. Perhaps this desire will come with the increasing number of years we are clocking up, so as a test run we've taken a picture of two mugs of Ozzie tea as a sort of apprenticeship/rights of passage - what do you think?
Christmas and New Year came and went whilst we were in Adelaide too, and both our waistlines seem to have increased, either that or our clothes have shrunk in the wash! Chrimbo day itself was spent on the beach with the family drinking at least one of those bottles of fizzy red we mentioned. On New Years Eve we were outside on a perfect evening weather wise and pretty much the whole of the family jumped in the pool on or before midnight. Helen was dead keen to get in the water, but perhaps that was to escape the image of FiL in his under-dungers?
A couple evenings, including NYE we managed to watch the sun setting over Port Willunga - possibly one of the best places to see a sunset on the planet with the view ever-so-slightly obscured by the wooden posts of the old jetty.
We also managed to get to see some dolphins during our visit - On Christmas Day at Port Willunga and a much closer view on a trip to Victor Harbour.
And so as we leave Adelaide we begin our meander back to Blighty and the centre of the universe, or Northampton at any rate...