Barossa Valley and Adelaide.

My apologies for the lack of posts here. Seems like I go a week or two without posting and then give updates all at once.

So, last week, after surviving a sudden cold, I took off to Adelaide (1 hour flight east) and then north to the Barossa Valley, very famous for it's wine. I was there to attend a microarray conference, not because I had anything to present on my project, but because there were several talks about my possible eventual project and it was nice to see what other people in the field were doing.

Lynn joined me on the weekend after the conference and we toured around a bit. Here are some photos.

Here is the view from my hotel room ...


The visitor centre at the Wolf Blass winery (the Wolf Blass yellow and red label wines you get in North America are not available here ... they have gold label here, which is supposed to be a higher grade. Also, we learned that screw caps are the way of the future and not only for the cheaper wines)


The view from Mengler's Hill lookout ...


This is what grape vines look like at high speed:


We spotted a Kangaroo in the wild! What a joyous occasion.


The whispering wall (as the names suggest, you can talk at one side and hear it clearly 150 metres away) ...


Some rather large trees in Adelaide's Botanic Park ...


The "hollywood" view of the Adelaide hills:


Some artwork behind the Art Gallery in downtown Adelaide: