The Uleybury winery

We were advised to visit the Uleybury winery by our friends Gianna and Greg so we gave it a go today. It's nicely located in the Adelaide hills.

It's a boutique winery that apart from their wine cellar also do lunches only on the weekends. It's run by an Italian family with which really you can't go wrong!

They have mainly pizza's on their menu with 3 non-pizza specials. The specials differ every weekend and depend on what amazing produce they can get. The pizza's get properly baked in a wood-oven.

The view from this place was beautiful.

You can see all the way to the sea.

We walked around a bit and found this pile of old barrels.

The sun shining through the trees was amazing. It was a pretty good day weather-wise.

We could see a bit of the vineyard too.

While driving home Richard called with some information on lawn bowls. He was playing himself, I couldn't because of my knee, I can't stand up very long. As it was on our way home we dropped by to say hi and have a look what was going on.

Well, Saturday bowls is 99% old people. So this little piece of nifty equipment is seen rather frequently. It's used to lift up a ball so they have to use their back even less ;-)


PS: These pictures were taken with a Nikon Coolpix 8800 camera instead of my phone.

The lunch

Early morning (8am) we went into town with the bus to find out what that was like in preparation for my first working day on Monday. It went well but I have to say that there's a school holiday on this week so no kids. We'll see on Monday I guess...

We made an early trip to the Central Market. here Nicole is browsing vegetables in her favorite asian grocery store.

Later in the morning, after we'd been at home for an hour again, we drove into town. Walking out of the parking garage we saw Adelaide's only solar powered bus getting juiced up. You hardly hear this bus, it's wonderful.

We were meeting Michelle and Stephen for lunch. While waiting these 2 asian girls walked past wearing typical asian-girls outfits. My luck of course that there's a bloody pole in front of the right girl...

Stephen measuring the amount of radio-activity while waiting for Michelle.

Michelle (left) in heavy conversation with Nicole. We had lunch at a chinese restaurant type of place. it was time very well spent!

Special addition: The Bocconcini.

The following 4 photo's are made especially for my 2 fellow guild members from World of Warcraft called Badooga and Wilhelmina.

Preparing the bocconcini. It's just very thinly (and I mean THIN) sliced prosciutto wrapped around a bocconcini cheese. Put them in a tray after greasing the bottom with olive oil.

Put it in an oven at about 200 degrees C and wait about 5-7 minutes (I think) until the cheese starts to melt.

When the cheese start to seriously melt, get it out of there. You want the cheese to stay chewy.

Drizzle some olive oil over the bocconcini's and add some oregano to your liking. Eat while they're hot!

Cafe de Vili's

Finally, after having been here for 5 months, we set foot in Cafe de Vili's again! Nothing seemed changed, thankfully.

The over-the-counter sales of pies, pasties, cakes etc, fresh from the factory behind the wall still happens right here.

I ordered the perfect duo: A chocolate eclair (lots of whipped cream) and a cheese+beef+bacon pie. Hmmm, just try and imagine the taste of your burps the next couple of days. Sensational!

Everybody finds there way to Cafe de Vili's. You haven't seen Adelaide if you haven't been to Cafe de Vili's!

(away from) civilization

Today we went to a place, well, more like a hole, called St. Kilda. It's about 30 minutes driving from our house. St. Kilda is at the beach and it's famous (ahem) for it's playground. Fun!

There isn't really a beach. The water is there only when the tide is in. All other times there is stinking mud. Fun!

They build a 3 story pirate ship that looks like it's crashed on St, Kilda's wild and rocky beach. Fun!

After walking around the place we wanted to have a drink at St. Kilda's hotel. This is what it looked like today. It was under construction but still open. Looking inside there was 1 dark corner in use where workmen were having lunch. The rest of the place looked dusty, dark and abandoned. Fun!

Needless to say, we felt a great urge arising to get the F. out of there. But not before making a photo impression of St. Kilda, "the living city", as we read on a sign on our way out.

Facing North. Fun!


Facing East. Fun!

Facing South-East (escape route). It looks like we were not the first people rushing away from here. Fun!

Facing South-West. I'll be damned, there were 3 houses made of brick!!! Fun!

Facing North-West we discovered the community hall. It was for rent. Fun!

We rushed back to civilization and found it at the Daniel O'Connell. Fun at last.

Bill

Today my second World of Warcraft T-shirt arrived. It was sent from the USA. I'm surprised it got here this fast: 1 week only!

I bought it using my Amazon.com voucher my colleagues gave me when I left. Thanks guys!

We went to Semaphore in the afternoon where we spotted this car and it's plate. It belonged to a shop.

We had lunch in a place called "whipped". Good stuff!

Then we walked towards the jetty because they were operating a little steam tram. Had to see it of course.

But it wasn't there yet so we walked on the jetty a bit.

It needs paint.

After a while the tram arrived. It was actually build in 1992 so you can consider it very "new".

It's manufactured by a company called "Willis" in Perth.

This is the complete tram. The track is only 2km.

The uber tyres

Karin needed new tyres and decided to upgrade the wheels at the same time. They suit her car really well I think!

They are 2 inches wider than the old ones which is fine. According to TOYOTA's website you can even order Corolla's with 16" wheels standard, no fuss.

In the afternoon I started working on my 1.5-30V/2A power supply. I need it to start working on my garden fountain which I need to do a nice little solar power project. Right. Anyway, more pictures on my Creative blog.

The 80's

It's been a while since I made my own food. But everybody can use "chicken tonight" so I gave it a shot.

This is the end result. Very nice but.... without chicken tonight. Upon opening the bottle it didn't smell too nice and it tasted a bit yucky. So Nicole quickly made a sauce I could use.

My friend Mic sent me a link to an 80's documentary about "style wars". This guy sure lived the 80's.

And so did this dude.

It was about breakdance...

... and graffiti.