A return from our tour of capital cities

We're back and we had a wonderful trip, which I am going to try to sum up here in a quick page. On Friday night Leon, Kris, Elise and I assembled in Sydney.

We set the tone for the weekend by having a lovely dinner, some drinks and laughs. On Saturday morning Leon and I went on a run along the harbour. So pretty, and the path just randomly took us into a National Park - in the middle of Sydney. Wild! In the background of this picture is the harbour and the bridge and the Opera House.

On Saturday we touristed and then saw Pirates of Penzance - a sort of updated version. Odd but good. Sunday saw the girls flying home and Leon and I going to Adelaide, largely for the Adelaide Fringe. We saw lots of shows. It's weird how some years we see lots of comedy, and other years it skews a different way. This year we saw a lot of quite fringy shows - surreal and mimey and quite wonderful.

Other themes this trip included coffee - we drank quite a lot of it, and most of it was very good. As usual we went to lots of breweries.

We also went to a Belaire National Park - 45 minutes from central Adelaide by train, and went on a little walk.

There were koalas just hanging out, so that was quite a treat.

We went to art exhibitions Radical Textiles and Glass Art in the Botanic gardens.

We also found a new (to us) Fringe location, the Courtyard Of Curiosities, which was smaller and much calmer than the main festival sites. We also spent plenty of time in the central venues, including eating oysters on the newly opened Champagne Island (in Gluttony) and my favourite chocolate covered strawberries (in the Garden). We also took our traditional Rundle Balls selfie.

And on the final day we went to SA Fibre Feast - South Australia's largest yarn festival. Danni from HalfBaked Handdyed was there (although we were lucky enough to catch up with her the day before as well), some other Victorian friends and many wonderful local vendors.

I'll be back on Wednesday to catch you up on what I've been reading and on Friday to share the details of my crafty purchases.

At some point in my busy schedule I will share Leon's Winter Set, which I knit while we were away - except the socks, which I was knitting on the way home and still have most of the pair to knit.

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