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A quick flight, which naturally I slept through. We deplaned
quickly, but at some point Carol stopped to adjust her
rollaboard, and in that time the little girl went past us,
coughing continuously. Shortly thereafter I acquired a nasty
cold that persisted over two weeks.

We were met at the all-new Adelaide airport (which looks
like any other airport-cum-mall such as are fashionable
these days) by Kevin, Glen, and Glen's daughter Liz, who
was at the airport coincidentally on the sad errand of
seeing off her husband who was going to his father's
funeral.

Off to Glen's, where we were introduced to his large
selection of cask wines:

De Bortoli 

Special Claret Dry Red - quite nasty, oxidized

Premium Reserve Shiraz - acceptable, thinnish, some fruit

Fresh Dry White - nicer than it had any right to be, an
obvious mongrel of surplus grapes including a sizable dose
of Riesling

Renmano wines

Premium Shiraz - slightly better, I thought, than the De
Bortoli, at least it had some body and a finish

Aged Tawny - not bad at all, but no resemblance to a real
Tawny; a pleasant raisiny sticky with some extra alcohol.

As we were all a bit tired and a bit hungry, we tried a new
storefront about half a mile down Prospect Road from Glen's,
the Ghan Kebab House, which served us pretty decent if bland
middle-eastern food at fair prices.

We started with mantwo, which are meat-filled ravioli with
a sauce of mint, split peas, and a bit of tomato; quite
acceptable. An order of mixed kebabs - beef, chicken, ground
lamb, were standard, not too generous, but decent portions.
Korma curry turned out to be an ordinary lamb stew made with
shin and whatever the Australian or Afghan version of
Veg-All is - this was wholesome but devoid of spice. I hope
the place makes it, but the cook has to be a bit more
generous with the flavorings.

Pallow rice and two kinds of flatbread (both quite similar
but made in different thicknesses and patterns) accompanied.

A satisfying, no frills meal for cheap, close to home.

Being in a state of understandable fatigue, we turned in
pretty early after a brief chat with Glen and his showing us
some of the highlights or lowlights of his booze collection.
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