Saturday, November 19, 2011

Away again

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Strip of vineyard along the road, Bedford Park, SA.

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Waiting for my flight to Brisbane

Not sure why I started this. I was in Adelaide for a geostatistics course given by Peter Diggle. The course was really good. But when you organise to go, you organise the least possible time because you don't know anyone and you don't know what to do.

I find getting from A to B extraordinarily stressful, so I tend to organise not to linger which is ultimately pretty silly. The course was at Flinders University which is some way south of the city, and I had hoped to stay at the university to avoid public transport. Perhaps for want of something important to stress over, I get myself ridiculously worked up about catching buses or whatever.

Adelaide was looking very beautiful. Its street trees were green and lush and growing well and from the University we could see the sea. And I am sort of sorry I didn't get to dip my toe in that lovely sea.

I took lots of photos of the most beautiful river red gums I have ever seen, but my photos were not particularly good. So the photos you get are of the strange little piece of vineyard 5m by 100m running along a suburban road, with its very old, well trellised and very healthy vines, and a view of the Adelaide Hills (?) from the airport