Have you ever been to Adelaide?  Will be the first time for me.  Ship arrived this morning, and we have a four hour tour planned. Now why would anyone want to visit  Adelaide ? It is the capital city of South Australia.   Founded in 1836 and named in honor of Queen Adelaide.  Never heard of her, for she was the wife of King William IV from 1830  to 1837, a very late marriage. Is known as one of Australia's most livable city, ranked by  The Economist  as #3 to #1 Auckland and #2 Osaka. Rupert Murdock (yes, the guy who owns Fox News), considers Adelaide to be his spiritual home. Has 51% of the installed capacity of wind generators in the country, Expanding battery powered storage of electricity with Tesla. Some  interesting facts about Adelaide : Is the only capital city not settled by convicts, making the locals extremely smug. Nicknamed the 20- minute city because everything is 20 minutes away. With 1.3 million people, about the same as Hawaii. Home to the largest display of Aborig

This was our best day on our trip so far.  However, first, Australia has some strange time zones.  We just changed our watches by 30 minutes, traveling south and west of Sydney along the coastline below the yellow zone. So what time is the Academy Awards program on TV?  Yes, it is being shown live on this ship.  Let's see now, New York start time is 8PM on Sunday.  Sydney is 16 hours ahead, so that would be 12 noon on Monday.  But wait, the USA just went on daylight savings time last night, so that would be 11AM.  Except we just moved half an hour towards, or is it away, from New York.  So 10:30AM?  Then on April 2,  Australia goes into Daylight Savings Time . Anyway, I am watching the Oscars as I write this blog, and for lunch plan to order a cheeseburger with beer and a red wine, plus Caesar salad, to continue viewing the program. Yesterday on the second sea-day we had a decent lunch with side skirt steak, chicken, Caesar salad, tomato soup and rosé. Then on to a Global Wine Ques