Day 25 – September 25 2012

An early start as the car was booked in at 8am to have the left rear shock absorber replaced, so we had to leave camp by 7.30am, most people were still asleep.  The shuttle bus took us into Adelaide city near the Rundle Mall, so we had a bit of a walk around the length of the Mall watching Adelaide city coming to life.  There are a few statues in the Mall & Tereza quite liked the group of 4 bronze pigs.  At 10am the South Australia Museum opened & we had a good look through it.  The museum building itself is a very nice bit of architecture, complementing the nearby Parliament House & University of South Australia buildings.  After lunch we did a little more exploring of the shops in the Adelaide CBD, admiring some of the old buildings.  There is a really good selection of shops with a large variety, but we resisted the temptation & left Rundle Mall empty handed.

We finally received the call from the car repair place & caught the bus back there.  Unfortunately the new part had a problem so the car was not fixed (the one good thing about this was that they washed the car) & another new part was being shipped overnight from Melbourne.   Back to the camp, a quick shower, then back into the city to have dinner with friends Rick & Barbara at Louca’s Fish Restaurant.  It was great to catch up with them, it’s around 2 years since we saw them last when they visited us in Canberra.  The dinner was great & afterwards we went back to their house for coffee, more chatting & to catch up with Mary, Barbara’s lovely mum.

They have a beautiful old South Australian style house built in 1920, they have modernised things inside like the kitchen & they kept the old gas lights but turned them into electric ones, there is also a big swimming pool in the back yard.  All the modifications & additions have been made in good taste for a comfortable life style.  It was around midnight before we got back to camp & bed.