The final day of what Kelly calls the 3-day celebration of all things Chris took us to nearby Largs Hotel for dinner tonight:
Earlier on, Jo and I had gone for a walk south along the esplanade, where we stopped for a seat and a read on the dunes:
From there we walked inland a bit and then headed back for a bite of lunch and some shopping on Semaphore Road, then back to Derby St. A couple of chapters and a snooze in the hammock and then Kelly and Miller were home. Miller joined me as I read:
Are you ready for some more Aussie-edu? Like many of the states in USA and in Scandinavia, the supermarkets don't stock hard liquor - in fact, they don't stock any kind of alcohol. You have to go to a separate shop, which, in typical Aussie style is foreshortened and ends in -o, so it's a "Bottle-O" you have to look out for.
At first, I assumed this was to restrict alcohol intake, but then, when Aussies go on a road trip, they usually pull in to a drive-through Bottle-O like this:
You don't even have to get out of your car. Compare this with the hoo-hah that there was in the UK when Wetherspoon's opened the first alcohol outlet at a motorway service station.
Another common Aussie word is Ocker - I'll let Wiki explain it - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocker
When we were at Matt's BBQ on Saturday, I commented on the large, what we would call kebabs. He said no - they're Shashliks (http://aussietaste.recipes/meat/lamb-mutton/how-to-make-shashlik/) - another word I'd never heard of.
Today's lesson over.
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