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Although born and bred in Australia, seeing as how my parents are Italian, I have 100% Italian blood coursing through my veins. I reckon that and the fact I was brought up on Italian cuisine is one of the main reasons I love Italian food.

I remember growing up as a kid when other kids used to make fun of me because of what I ate. Now it seems that the shoe is on the other foot and more and more Aussies are eating Italian food and one of the most popular ones has to be pizza! What I love about pizza is that you can have it at almost any time, for a complete meal, for a snack while watching a great movie or even when unexpected guest come and you want to give them a good feed.

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Now, you can’t always go out for a pizza and there are times when you just can’t be bothered and that’s when frozen pizza saves the day. I’ve always got some frozen pizza sitting in the freezer and now that I’ve heard that Tony’s Pizza is one of the best I’m just going to have to check the local supermarket freezer to see if they stock Tony’s Pizza and if they don’t I’m going to have to ask them why.

Honestly, the worst thing I hate about pizza delivery is the wait, and the followup calls when you’ve been waiting what seems for hours. Then there’s always those occasions when they stuff up the order and you get the wrong one. At least when I rip one out of the freezer I know what I’m getting, and nothing beats the smell of pizza warming in the oven!
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Adelaide’s Bicentennial Conservatory

Although Adelaide’s Bicentennial Conservatory was built in 1988 to celebrate Australia’s bicentenary I’ve yet to walk through it, even though I’ve walked by it on more than one occasion. I reckon that this is the year that I may actually see how beautiful it is inside, but I’ll probably wait until it’s a bit cooler as I’ve heard it can get quite humid in there.

I think it’s great that they accepted Guy Maron’s design as he’s a South Australian architect. Although the whole structure is 100 metres long, 47 metres wide and 27 metres high, as you can see from the picture it’s quite delicate in design.

Conservatory

Last I heard it housed between 3000-4000 plants that were specifically selected from Australasia and Malaysia. The Department Of Environment And Heritage has a lot more information on this remarkable structure, which can be found in the Botanical Gardens, including opening hours and admission prices.

Bicentennial

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The Adelaide Arcade A Great Place To Shop

They reckon that the Adelaide Arcade is the place to shop, and yes it does have a lot of lovely boutiques as well as a few places to sit and relax with a nice cup of coffee.

When originally built in 1885 it had about 50 shops but today it boasts over 100 outlets on multi-levels. What’s surprising is that it took only 5 months to build. Surprising because it would take much longer today even with all the modern technological advances.

For those of you who are interested there’s a very good site with a comprehensive history of the Adelaide Arcade. The Adelaide Arcade even has it’s own museum with artifacts depicting it’s history. You’ll find it on the balcony level of Gays Arcade.

This photo was taken from the Rundle Mall entrance.

Adelaide Arcade Entrance

This one from the opposite end, the Grenfell St. entrance. Considering how much detail went into the building it’s quite remarkable that they completed it in such a short time. I wonder if it has anything to do with the work ethics of the time.

Adelaide Arcade

I found the interior to be just as pleasing as the exterior and if I highly recommend that you stop by when visiting this wonderful city of ours.

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The monument that you see below is dedicated to Sir Walter Watson Hughes who was born in 1803 and died in 1887. Originally from England he made his fortune through investments in the mining industry. The Wallaroo Copper Mine was actually discovered on his property, and the Moonta mine was discovered close by. Naturally he had a major slice of both.

Sir Walter is usually referred to as the ‘”father” of the University Of Adelaide, because it was his donation of £20,000 that led to the formation of the University. The monument that you see here was presented by his nephews John James Duncan and Walter Hughes Duncan in 1906.

Sir Walter Hughes

The next photo shows a little more of the Adelaide University in the background. Since it first came to being in 1874 it has been one of Australia’s leading universities.

Adelaide uni

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2004 Hyundai Santa Fe GLS.

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For those of you who have been to Australia you know that Australia is a land of vast open spaces because of that, petrol being s o damn expensive and all, more and more Aussies are looking for fuel deficient cars. That isn’t the only reason for our search for ‘greener’ cars as we are also concerned about our environment and so many Aussies when updating look for green cars with some sort of green credential.

One such car is the Hyundai Santa Fe and global green challenge wanting to prove that they had the goods and that the Hyundai Santa Fe was a force to be reckoned they entered it into the transcontinental global green challenge.

What better place to hold the challenge in Australia, a country that has proved to be very demanding on it’s cars, and included covering a distance of 3,147 kilometres from Darwin to Adelaide. I can only imagine the jubilation felt by the guys that developed this remarkable car, when it won the SUV class in the challenge. I reckon they were absolutely wrapped with that result.

You have to admit, when looking at the results, completing that sort of distance in the harsh Australian conditions, after seven days of grueling competition, to have consumed a total of just 160.46 litres of diesel with an emission level of only 137.67 grams of CO2 emission per kilometre, well that is pretty remarkable.

It’s not often that  I get the opportunity to write about something positive and that I enjoy, and I just love my cars, and it is important to point out to others who are concerned about global warming how they should consider the following points when choosing their next car.

  • You want one that is fuel efficient, as this will save you money as well as the environment.
  • It has to be low on co2 emissions, because the less crap we pump into the atmosphere the better.
  • The thing is even though many people want to do the right thing, they’re  not always prepared to do it if it will cost them, say a loss in performance. I know, it sounds crazy but there are actually people who will base their judgement on certain criteria like that. I’m sure that was why the guys who designed the Hyundai Santa Fe made sure that whilst reducing the CO2 emission of the car they still maintain, if not improved, the car’s performance.

    Anyway, the whole idea of this post is to bring to peoples attention that environment is very important to all of us and for that reason when next choosing a new car they should seriously consider one that has good green credentials.

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