The rain and wind have blown in from the west, wait on, we’re heading west f….! I hope it doesn’t hang around.

Two of the Starship Enterpwize crew have already left from Canberra and are scouting Adelaide venues for dinner and a big screen to watch tonight’s rugby test between the Wallabies and the Lions. I hope the result is positive.

Six of the crew leave from the distant galaxy of Dubbo via the nebula Sydney, hoping the advance party have things sorted for us tonight.

Reminder for those who missed the initial briefing, the Starship Enterpwize is crewed by

Jenzy, Harve, Papa Smurf, Smurfette, The Don, Wally, The Navigator and shit kicking notetaker Pauolo.

We’re down the back of the plane but we booked the isle and the windows hoping nobody would take the middle seat. Which was the case. My last flight to Adelaide was 2008, just after a restructure that rendered me unemployed but amply rewarded for my employers ineptitude. Can’t say I missed the regular monthly/ bimonthly trips to the City of Churches for meetings.

In deference to Ozzy Osbourne who died yesterday my Sydney- Adelaide playlist includes a lot of Black Sabbath songs. Paranoid was the second album I bought with my own money. Doors  LA Woman was the first. Descending into a green Adelaide ” Children of the Grave” isn’t that appropriate, perhaps?

The weather is miserable, cold and raining. A $37 taxi ride into the Chancellor Hotel on Currie St and then a late lunch early dinner at The Black Bull hotel on Hindley Street before warming up for the rugby test between the Wallabies and the Lions.

The Wallabies have the game stolen from them 29-26 in the last minute. Bloody French ref and a Georgian linesman….

I reckon I’ll sleep well tonight.

There are some photos from Day 2 – I can’t work out how to delete them from Day 1

Ciao

Pauolo