Norwegian 17th of May Celebrations

Our Scandinavian choir was invited to sing a few norwegian songs at the Norwegian Clubs National Day Celebrations. The Norwegian club was not too hard to find with plenty of flags outside.

After the Norwegian national anthem and a few other songs we enjoyed a Norwegian Smörgåsbord. Then the celebrations where finished off with a folk dance lesson.

Golfing in Queesland

Golf in Australia is great!
... And a bit different to Swedish golf in a few ways.
Buggies are used by the majority of golfers here. The terrain outside the court is not as wild as in Sweden, where you very rarely find your golf ball in the tall grass/woods or similar.

Social golf can be very social here. It is not uncommon that golfers buy a few beers from the catering buggie that drives around the holes to provide thirsty golfers with beverages, sweets or fish & chips from the golf restaurant.

Here's a very happy Patrik at St. Lucia golf course enjoying a beer in the heat!

Adelaide

Since May 1:st is a public holiday, we took the opportunity to take a trip to Adelaide in South Australia.
On Saturday we explored the City of Adelaide. We strolled around the city, visited Central Market, Australia Museum, saw Architectural highlights of the city and the National Wine Centre.

It was beautiful to meet the Australian autumn in Adelaide!

Adelaide is known as "The city of churches" so we checked out a few. Here are Kristin and Francis Xavier.

In the heart of Adelaide is the Victoria square.

Stone architecture is a signum for Adelaide

We had a stroll along Adelaide's North Terrace

Kristin found some friends.

Adelaide has a Wine-centre which is almost like a wine museum. They show everything about the wine. How the grapes grows, the winemaking, the bottling, the tasting and drinking.

Us at the wine centre

On Sunday we drove out to Barossa Valley, a wine district approx. an hour North East of Adelaide. Our third visit to one of Australia’s well known wine districts, and probably the one we appreciated most. There where vineyards as far as we could see.

Quite impressive with the mix of palm trees and wine fields.

Jacobs Creek was our first vineyard and we did have a look at the famous Creek.

Kristin enjoying the taste of Jacob Creeks cellar door edition.

Peter Lehmann made the most beautiful Cabernet Sauvignon.

Kristin at Seppelt

We also got to taste the wines at Wolf Blass

And at Penfolds

After visiting the vineyards we drove to the village Hahndorf which was built by German Lutherans who arrived in Australia in the 1800’s. The Hahndorf made us feel as if we where in the German country side. We had apfelstrudel at the Hahndorf Inn.

On Monday we took the old city tram of Adelaide that goes between Victoria Square and Glenelg, a nice coastal city suburb.
At Glenelg we went for a walk round the nieghbourhood and finished of the visit with some coffee and ice-cream.

Kristin in front of the tram.

Patrik by the waterside.

After Glenelg we visited Haigh’s Chocolate factory. Haighs is a family owned company, the oldest Chocolate manufacturer in Australia, and they are good friends with another Chocolate family in Switzerland, the Lindt family!

Kristin sure enjoyed the chocolate, we got a lot of tasting samples.

The last thing on our Adelaide tour was a visit to the Adelaide Gaol, an old local prison. Mark that Gaol is the old English spelling for Jail.
Adelaide Gaol was used up until the 80’s. A quite scary place…

Patrik got to ring the bell.


The prisoners did indeed know how to make the best of their time.

A Kodak moment?