The Nose Knows and Menu Madness.

Our trip to South Australia was really great. We started out our holiday with two nights at Mt Gambier a very pretty place with some great volcanic formations. It was also where Ernie made his presence felt whilst walking up the edge of an old volcano and giving me not only a severe case of nausea but a very interesting new queasiness with heights. I had my first craving for sausages with bread and sauce, of all things and thought that I was going to throw up whilst in the meat section of Safeway. It was also here that I discovered the new found ability of my nose to smell all sorts of very yucky smells well before Jochen the super nose.

We headed from Mt Gambier to Adelaide where we planned to stay a night or two and investigate the city. After a couple of hours of driving around the city and looking for accommodation we discovered that it was impossible to stay in Adelaide as all the accommodation was booked out due to the Clipsil 500. So instead we had a night at Glenelg a suburb on the beach, that hadn't quite been booked out when we got there. We decided to wander the streets and see what took my fancy for dinner, as Ernie had been dictating quite heavily what I did and didn't want to eat. It was here that I discovered the ability of menus on restaurant walls to induce extreme nausea. It took quite a bit of wandering before I found a restaurant that I thought I could cope with. Whist eating tea, Jochen and I decided that my body had been taken over by Ernie the military dictator who had overthrown the ruling democracy.

After Glenelg we travelled to the Barossa Valley, a well known wine region. Along the way I found Barley sugars and lemonade a great help with the sudden nausea when driving. We stayed at a gorgeous B&B in a cute little town called Tanunda. We only had one night there but we will definately go back. We went to quite a few wineries where Jochen got to taste a large number of wines and buy a few as well. I was designated driver due to Ernie - but that was okay as it really didn't tempt me anyway. Our night at the B&B was also my first experience of true morning sickness. However, unlike the name implies my morning sickness only appears to really happen at night after dinner, this occassion - a garlic prawn dinner.

We did plan to have a night in the German town of Handorf, but after wandering around all the very touristy shops and Jochen getting the chance to eat some traditional German food we decided to keep travelling to my Aunty Jeans house near Maryborough for the night before making our way home the next day.

As much as I enjoyed our time away, it was good to get home to where the food is as I like it, the bed is comfortable and the smells are not too bad.