Here's the real Felibree

arrived in adelaide late afternoon after driving across the hay plains and south to the desert capital. 43 degrees at hay, 44 degrees at balranald, dropped to 42 degrees at mildura. luckily cath had the international sign out ready to guide us to the felibree destination. the house is very classy and in a leafy, old adelaidean area. anya and willow took us on a guided tour and showed us to the guest suite where anya checked that the bed was comfortable. it is.

first impressions are that adelaide is a very pleasant place - charming old houses in shady gardens, walks along streams just a few streets away from home, interesting shops, and all set in a huge vineyard. mile after mile of grape vines. cath says she's only shown us the good parts and not everyone lives this same languid, luxurious life. well, she didn't really say that but she did imply that some suburbs aren't quite as noice as here.



day 2 went south as everything good here is south. drove down the coast of the fleurieu peninsular and across to victor harbour. vh is an english seaside holiday town complete with sandy beach, lapping wavelets, cafes, pubs, ferris wheel, bowling rink, sideshows, strawberries and cream, horsedrawn doubledecker tram and, for an exotic south australian touch, camel rides along the beach.

ate fish and chips at the anchorage, with a glass of maclarenvale chardonnay. yum. catherine's toes curled with delight.
granite island is linked to vh by an 800m pier so we walked across and on the way discussed whether the horse actually pulls the tram or perhaps there's a hidden electric motor underneath. either way, it looks an easy stroll for the horse.



then our tour guide insisted that we needed to depart for the berry picking fields of mt compass as summer pudding was on the menu sometime in the next day or two. after all it wouldn't be a real felibree without a good summer pud. memories of fountains abbey and lashings of cream floated back. we ended up with raspberries, strawberries, blueberries and 17 different varieties of blackberries. they'd been warned that we were coming, so closed the pick your own facility and only allowed us to buy the ready packed fruit.