Adelaide - City of Everything

Fresh from our four day sojourn to Adelaide, a place to which I haven't visited for about twenty years, I've rediscovered it's diversity. Truly a city of everything, so much to see and do, the first thing I noticed was the number of boutique coffee shops, and unlike Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane, all of them open, all them top quality and all of them serving pretty reasonable coffee.

The streets are wide, the traffic is minimal and the lifestyle is lazy, or certainly lazier than Sydney. The best attraction we found, apart from the fabulous wineries was Central Markets.

What an awesome place, open late on Friday nights, it is THE place to get all your fresh food.






and there is some strange stuff here. how about Crocodile meat, or Emu ?




Of course, they have the right idea about public transport, the Tram is FREE in the city, and it goes from the top of Adelaide city to the beach at Glenelg, for a measly $2.70.

The river Torrens crosses the city and is just beautiful, you could spend the day walking around the gardens then settle in for a nice picnic on the riverbank. or maybe even do a spot of fishing !


To finish off a great day out, a visit to one of the three major restaurant strips is mandatory, we found the ones in North Adelaide and in Hutt Street west of the city absolutely fantastic, so much better than anything I've experienced in Norton Street Sydney and Lygon Street Melbourne put together.









Life wouldn't be the same without a nice bottle or two or three of wine, would it ? We visited a few of the best wineries in SA, and at Penfolds we even got to make our own blend, Bin 138 ... Now THIS is living ! A new found respect for a great city.. Love it !