Week 7 was our last time in Austalia as well as the start of our stay in New Zealand. We spent the week in visiting Adelaide (the driest city in the driest state in the driest country on the continent on earth), packing our luggage and flying to New Zealand. Adelaide was also an exciting town (very structured and well planned like Canberra) with a lot of old historic buildings, green grounds (which enclose the city centre) and some lovely shops and restaurants.

The packing was quite a “painful” process. Although we booked two extra luggage pieces, we had to reduce some stuff. We also realised that we won’t be able to expand our luggage for the flight home so pricey. 60 kilos are maximum. The prize for overload is extremely expensive – for instance five extra kilos for 340 Swiss francs.

Moreover, we said Goodbye to our old campervan. It was my first experience in WOMO-Holidays – and yes I enjoyed it. To give you an imagination of the camper, I posted some pictures of his inside.

Route

Day 46: Stay in Hahndorf

Day 47: Hahndorf – Adelaide

Day 48: Stay in Adelaide (City Tour, Dinner at Jamies Italien)

Day 49: Stay in Adelaide (Packing)

Day 50: Adelaide – Auckland (flight)

Day 51: Stay in Auckland (hotel room Day)

Day 52: Auckland Hotel – Auckland Campground

special recommendations

City Tour in Adelaide

In my experience – to be told the history of city or a special place is the best way to get in touch with a new location. Therefore, we decided to book a walking tour in Adelaide. The operator was a new in business (so far as I am able to make this implication) and was good prepared and motivated to offer us a deep inside in the history of Adelaide. He explained us a lot of local stories behind some historical buildings as well as status in the city center. Because the tour began at 10 am in the morning, we were able to spend the whole afternoon in the recommend places.

National Wine Centre

South Australia is famous for his delicious wines and some of his wine region like the Barossa Valley. Besides of his famousness, the wine industry is also a crucial economic factor. These are of course the reasons for Adelaide to be the location for the national wine centre.

The centre included an exhibition about the fact and figures of wine in Australia and a fancy wine bar. No, it was not a typical wine bar. The counter was also extremely well-thought-out. There were different wines bottles behind a glass wall – so we had to choose the sort and the amount, inserted a preloaded card and hold the glass under the metallic pipe. With this system, you were able to try serval wine without a hurry. Genious!

Dinner at Jamie’s Italien

Jamie Oliver is well-known in Australia. He has advertisement contracts with Woolworth (one of the big supermarket chain) and owns the two or more restaurant in Australia. Although, the choice of food for vegetarians is limited, Maggi likes this place too.

We visited this restaurant twice in Brisbane and once in Adelaide. We both enjoyed the excellent starters like olives on ice and an assorted bread collection, I got in love with the fancy steaks and we really liked the dessert (epic Brownie for Maggi and Pavlova for me). Yes, the dishes hadn’t changed.

Our new Camper

The new camper (Mighty) is absolutely comfortable. It’s a bit big (for my taste), but it includes large sofa, a lot of cupboards, a huge fridge, a self-contained toilet and shower. That’s awesome!

Schwiizerdütschi Zämefassig

Tschüüsss Australie, hallo Neuseeland!