Ja volim globalizaciju / I love globalisation

Danas nadjem u lokalnom supermarketu ajvar, to ce reci 'ayvar' kako ga pisu za strance. Pogledam gde je napravljen i imam sta da vidim - u Brusu, ni 100 km od rodnog grada! A nije ni los za pojesti; kao sto se da videti, ja vec smaz'o pola tegle za dorucak. Ja volim globalizaciju! :-)

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Today I found ajvar - aka 'ayvar' as it is spelled for foreigners - in the local supermarket. I checked out the origin and lo and behold, it's from Brus, a place no more than a 100 km from my home town! And it's half-decent too; as you can tell, I've already polished off half the jar for breakfast. I love globalisation! :-)

Walkin

Chillin with the sunset














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Location:West Beach,Australia

Woolshed Gully to Mount Lofty

Last Sunday we went for a walk in the Adelaide Hills early in the morning - probably around 8am, which must be a record of some sort, for us anyway. The light is best at that time of the day and the views... well, see for yourself!

We climbed Mount Lofty, which is probably the best known promontory over Adelaide, together with lots of fit Adeladians - and a few of the not so fit ones. It seems to be a fad amongst the trendy folk to get up early and run up this hill with latest lycra outfits on display - making the difference between the fit and the not-so-fit all the more poignant.

In any case, we chose the route less travelled and avoided most of the human traffic, only to then rejoin the maddening crowds at the top of Lofty, for a hot cup-a-coffee... Some luxuries of modernity are not so bad after all :-) 

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Our dream house...

...looks something like this

http://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-sa-malvern-115416795

We snuck a peek at this one when it was open for inspection - it's our neighbour, just across the road (the bastard!)

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Everybody cool

Everyone's trying to cool down in the Adelaide summer heat! We found this little fella, a huntsman spider, dipping his toes in our fridge!

Kites away!

About time I posted some kitesurfing pics, especially now that I'm a little better at it than a giraffe doing karaoke. My gear arrived in full - the board some 2-3 weeks after the kite, plus this weekend was the South Australia Freestyle Kitesurfing championship in Grange. Did I enter the competition, I hear you say? Nope, I thought it was time to give the younger kids a chance... ahem...

Running and falling trees

After many months of laziness and procrastination - interspersed with occasional bouts of swimming, kitesurfing and basketball - we have now joined the Adelaide Running Crew - yay!

This morning was the first time I attended and by 8am it was already 32C. By the time we finished the run - for me a measly 4-5 km - about 30-45 mins later, it was 35C and was forecast to reach 40C later in the day. This being Australia, we fired up one of the public bbqs in the park and enjoyed a couple of hours dossing, drinking, eating and generally reversing all the good effects of the run.

It was a memorable experience in its own right, but that's not where it ends.

About half way through, we heard a massive crash nearby - one of the very large trees in the park, not 50 metres distance from us, shed a half-ton branch from a height of about 10 m and basically totalled three cars parked underneath it. The park was full of people, lots of children in the paddling pool a stone's throw away, so it's a small miracle no one was hurt.  

And that's how you learn about life in Australia, trial and error. Never park your car underneath a large tree, especially when it's this hot; apparently the sap can get so heated up it almost explodes and can take down a whole tree within seconds. 

See the pics of the crash below. The guy in the foreground is Richard, from our crew, and the unfortunate, forlorn owner of the green and white car, a carefully restored and much loved piece of car history; he was ringing the emergency services. C'est la vie...

The tree above, with the stump where the branch came off