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Arrived in Adelaide on Rekkie Trip and Loving it!!

Old Aug 18th 2006, 1:04 pm
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Well for those of you been following my journey so far, you will see I have had to log in under a new name but it is the original Toon Williams talking the one and only thing I forgot to bring was the bloody password to this site!!! But thats not bad as I remembered everything else!!

We left Heathrow last Saturday amide complete chaos and waited 4 hours to check in having arrived at the airport 5 hours before our flight and then found ourselves running for the plane!! The kids were fantastic considering they had not had tea and ended up eating it at 11.30pm on the aeroplane!! The flight had been my biggest worry with no hand luggage made me worry even more, but both kids (7 & 3) were fantastic and Singapore Airlines I think are fantastic!!

They watched the films and then slept for hours which was great!! The flight seemed to go really quckly and when we arrived at Singapore they both went mad, running around but that was fine as we had 5 hours to wear them both out before getting on the next flight to Adelaide!!

Arrived in Adelaide feeling filthy and just wanting a shower as we had no clothes to change into at Singapore decided to not bother showering there!! But all being so excited didnt care that we all looked so rough!!

We have been here since Monday and having heard alot of good and also alot of bad press about Adelaide from people on this site and other sites and wanted to put what we thought so far!! We love it!! It is everything we wanted and more!! Have not stopped since we got here as all so excited to get out and about and see what is here.

The highlight so far has to be holding a REAL Koala Bear at Cuddly Creek, my 7 year old was made up with that, couldnt believe how soft and cuddly he was!! And then of course feeding the Kangaroos, just finished her off!! She thought that was fantastic!! It was so good to hear her say yesterday having only been here a couple of days that she never wants to go back to the UK!! But have had to explain that we will for a short time!!

Have had a good look around at areas and houses and schools, and so far we really like Golden Grove, Highbury, Modbury and Valley View!! There was another one which was VERY posh but just a little out of our price range, :scared: cant remember the name of it now and there are various other areas we love like Glenelg and Brighton and cant even think what the names of the others were but whilst we loved them we didnt want to live there for various reasons!!

We love it here and all the boxes we had to tick in order to confirm our decision have been ticked with great big large red bold ticks!!

So now we have another three and half weeks of just enjoying a taster of the life we will soon live for good!!

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Old Aug 18th 2006, 1:35 pm
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I'm glad the flight went well -kids can surprise you, can't they ?



Enjoy the reccie, wine etc
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Thanks for taking the time to tell us about your thoughts, were off to Adelaide too, infact the wife and daughter have been there since April.

We are also looking at the Golden Grove area to settle.

Enjoy your new life......hope it all works out for you
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Hiya!!!

Glad you're having a great time and all went well on the flight!!

Hope Maddison had a fab birthday.....Emily did!!

Keep in touch,

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Welcome to Adelaide!
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Glad you're having a great time here; it'll be even better when the weather improves!

Been out to the wineries yet? Not really a kids outing I must admit though. Down South I hear the whale watching at Victor Harbour's been good lately

Nice to hear of some people looking to settle in the northern suburbs like me - we'll have to try to fix up a meet!

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Glad you're having fun Susie.
Enjoy the rest of your time there.
BTW, did you see we got our visa?

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Originally Posted by Toon Williams the Second!
Well for those of you been following my journey so far,
Glad you arrived safely we were thinking of you, as you were getting worried about the flight with the kids.

Enjoy your stay
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Hello

Welcome to Adelaide mate, glad you're enjoying our fabulous city. Take care and enjoy the rest of your stay
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Originally Posted by Juliecabs
Glad you're having fun Susie.
Enjoy the rest of your time there.
BTW, did you see we got our visa?

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NO I DIDNT SEE THAT!!!

Fantastic!!

Congratulations to You!!!!!!

Bet you were dancing on the ceilings!!!

It is all worth it we are having a great time!! We all love it here BIG time!!
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Welcome to Adelaide mate, glad you're enjoying our fabulous city. Take care and enjoy the rest of your stay

Thanks Wendy not seen you on here for a while, see you settled in Mawson Lakes we had a good look round there the other day really nice area!! How are things going??
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Thanks Wendy not seen you on here for a while, see you settled in Mawson Lakes we had a good look round there the other day really nice area!! How are things going??

It is nice in Mawson Lakes isn't it

Everything going great thanks. We are settling in very well.
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Originally Posted by WendyC
It is nice in Mawson Lakes isn't it

Everything going great thanks. We are settling in very well.
This thread has made me smile big time.........we are looking at settling in Adelaide as i have a mate who has lived there for over 10 years we have really liked what we have seen on t'internet. i am so glad to read that its as good in real life.

Good luck to all of ya and we look forward to sharing drinks with you lovely Adelaide folk next year.

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I was thinking about you all flying out last week...sooooo glad it was all ok and that you love Adelaide. It's all very exciting!
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