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Sorry for the lapse in posting there – but our old friend, Jet Lag<\/a> caught up with me in a bad way. Ouchie!<\/p>\n

I’ve finally adjusted to the climate down here – at first, it was like my body just couldn’t believe that it was so hot, like it still thought “it’s winter, I should be cold.” So the first few days I went around in 100 degree (F) weather wearing a sweatshirt. And jeans. Yeah.<\/p>\n

But now I’m adjusted, and the weather is beautiful. A sunny 27 degrees celsius – or 80 degrees fahrenheit, as we would say back home. I’ve been all over the place – up to the Barossa Valley<\/a> to visit wineries (I picked up a nice bottle of Tawny Port<\/a> there), down to Port Elliot<\/a> to visit the beach (didn’t go swimming, but did have some absolutely lovely fish & chips), into the city<\/a> to go the central markets, the botanic gardens<\/a>, and to see a movie (the latest Bond movie – I highly recommend it), and down to Glenelg<\/a> to visit a friend of Amanda’s (Glenelg is a nice resort\/beach type place).<\/p>\n

I’ve also come across some rather strange things – which will explain why there are no pictures for this post. Apparently, DSL usage down here isn’t just a flat rate for a flat connection speed… instead, you pay a certain amount for a certain allotment of bandwidth (say, 1GB), and when you run over that amount, your connection speed is throttled back to 64 kilobits\/sec. YIKES! Unfortunately, I learned this after<\/em> I downloaded some rather large video files to show people here. So I’m conserving bandwith at the moment – which means no pictures. Sorry! I’ll post them all when I get back (and boy oh boy are there a LOT of them).<\/p>\n

I will try to keep to a schedule of updates here for the remainder of my trip, but I can’t promise anything. Anyway, that’s all for now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry for the lapse in posting there – but our old friend, Jet Lag caught up with me in a bad way. 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