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Adelaide
Travel Blogs from Adelaide, Australia
dazed and confused
This is a top pick! It's five weeks before I am meant to leave. Despite this, I have no flights booked, I don't have the letter of acceptance from the University of Calgary and I haven't even applied for my visa yet. Worries. I'm very sleepy, so I may not be that ...
Ready! ... Set! ...
This is a top pick! Hello everyone, it's hard to believe, but we will be off on another adventure in 3 weeks. Last year after our "Mexican Adventure" and "Surgery Adventure", we began thinking that there are no guarantees in life, and if you want to do something don't ...
very close
This is a top pick! I have one full day remaining to tear myself away from life in Australia before uprooting to Canada. I worked my last shift at work this morning, I got a cool array of stuff from Kathmandu (like book lights and key ring compasses) as a going away ...
T - 1
This is a top pick! ... day off to pack as of 1730hrs: Pack status - 80% Clothes - Still a bit wet coz it was frickin raining today in Adelaide! Grrrrrr.. Electronic Gear - Everything is charged and ready to go. Dog prep - They're stupid, wont know we're gone... ...
...GO!
This is a top pick! Well, tomorrow is our departure day! Max and I are both saying it will be a relief to finally go. This trip has required a huge amount of planning - both for being away from home for 3 months and for our US itinerary. We knew that we would ...
The Great Outback Experience
This is a top pick! ... much I enjoy those subjects and people to debate them with. Next day another long journey of 700km to the Flinder's Ranges. Australia is very big country and you realize it the most in the outback. The whole way the five Dutch travel agents were ...
Meetings
This is a top pick! ... Ausland, wear thongs !!! Pissed off, Lucy said fuck it, lets go into the hills to the oldest German settlement in South Australia,and as I was a passenger, I couldn't really say no !!! Hahndorf was our destination, and once there, I saw a memorial to the ...
Preparing to leave can be overwhelming
This is a top pick! ... couple of years. I'm having my last goodbye night tonight at the Oyster Bar at Glenelg, one of my favourite haunts in Adelaide. Then tomorrow night I'm having a family dinner, then Tuesday night I'll be madly packing, ready to fly out on Wednesday ...
Merry belated Christmas
This is a top pick! ... again I never got around to it, but it's the thought that counts! Whether you're on the other side of the world or in Adelaide I've no doubt been missing you. I'm starting to really, really miss Canada, and I haven't caught up with half of my friends ...
Moving On Again!
This is a top pick! I am finally leavig Adelaide after 2.5 months here, 2 of them working at the wonderful Backpack Oz, probably Australia's finest hostel (certainly by far the best I've seen in 5 months). I will be very sad to leave all my friends and colleagues here, but ...
Happy New Year!
This is a top pick! It has already been 2 weeks since I last made an entry - I know, I'm a bad girl! However I did upload my first photos in ages the other day - and there's many more to come..... I had a great festive season here. I worked Christmas Eve night, but ...
the preparations begin
This is a top pick! ... in Canberra. Crap! Fortuitously, I'm going to Canberra for work tomorrow and I have the morning free (there's only 1 direct flight between Adelaide and Canberra each morning, and I'm not needed until 12). So it seems like I'll be able to submit it in ...
I'm meant to be studying but...
This is a top pick! ... beach in cheap Eastern Europe for a couple of weeks before the action starts. And we're going to the snow for a week, here in Australia, just before we go! It had been a vague plan, I've been dying to go since getting back from Canada. But I had ...
Road Trip - Melbourne to Adelaide
This is a top pick! ... van with 2 Irish girls, and go to Alice Springs and meet Uli there when the car had been fixed. Today we are in Adelaide. I have travelled down the Great Ocean Road (much better this way round - very pretty), and we have been camping in parks and on ...
Into South Australia!!!
This is a top pick! ... trip with my husband and Grandad (like having two annoying big brothers teasing me constantly for 2 weeks and beating me up! 1,2,3 awwww! Love you really!) We got dropped off at the Greenways apartments in Adelaide and then begins another ...
Adelaide and Zach's party
This is a top pick! ... : Zach's Actual Birthday and our relocation to the Dillon's beach house in Port Eliot down on the coast. Adelaide gets a bit of a bum rap in Australia but we found it a delightful city, with a lovely small but old centre, great shopping and ...
Outback Stuff
This is a top pick! ... the roast of the day! We styed there for about 3 hours, which was enough. Today I went to the museum of South Australia, which was quite interesting. I think tomorrow I will head to Glenelg and spend the day on the beach. Jeez the backpacking life ...
Er, still in Adelaide!
This is a top pick! ... in Adelaide. I am cleaning, working on reception, duty managing, working behind the bar - and worryingly, driving people round Adelaide in a minibus!!! That's right, old drivingphobic moi! Actually it's fine. I was worried at first because I hadn't ...
Adelaide and Reunions!
This is a top pick! ... ! We wandered around the harbour which sort of resembled a smaller scale of Vilamoura/French Riviera and then headed back into Adelaide accompanied by 2 mad nutters! No not Shirley & Sid, another 2 ozzie weirdos shouting at each other even though they ...
Amazing!! - The Great Ocean Road
This is a top pick! I'm up at the crack of dawn to start the last trip I'll be doing in Australia...."The Great Ocean Road", from Melbourne through to Adelaide. I've paid $285 for a 3 day 2 night tour and will be visiting some of the most amazing coastal scenery that mother ...
Adelaide
... Grove & also the smaller wineries of Bethany & VineCrest. A really enjoyable day. The temperature is really cold in South Australia, we are experiencing maximum temperatures of 10c, dropping to 0c! Not loving the cold, I have even had to buy hat ...
Radelaide
The first side trip was to Radelaide where Benjimima (my love, oh my love, oh Benjimima oh my love, get your groove control) hosted us for a few days of sun, touching (Austrailian animals - kangaroos biceps and koala's dreadlocked bottom), wine and good ...
Tiger Strikes Again!
... up at all..."F$%king Christ, mate. What the f$%k are you doing flying that rubbish? Tiger is a f$%king joke mate." In Australia the f word is used about as much as an American teenager would say "you know" or "like" so I wonder if ...
Bursdag og andre ting
... . Overalt er det mat i store mengder, fra isbarer til cafeer til restaranter og gatekjoekken, det er ikke vanskelig aa tro at Australia ligger paa andreplass med tanke paa overvekt og fedme. En god nummer to, toer vi paastaa. I tillegg har vi vaert ...
THE EXCITEMENT IS BUILDING
This is the first of a series of blogs that will be put together for the Modbury High USA Basketball Tour 2010. Whilst the trip is still (just less than) two weeks away, I thought we should get started and make sure all those parents and friends who are ...
The beginning of the Stuart Highway Journey
... Dutchman’s Heist gave us a panoramic view of the ranges. It was great to be able to begin to see the outback of Australia. I had just spotted my first kangaroo. Cool. I am definitely feeling that i have arrived in the outback. Roos!! All i need to ...
Day 164
... a pie and a spinach roll. Supremely gutsy, but who cares? Then nothing else to do but sit on the bus and watch South Australia roll on… and on… This country is ridiculous in size. I especially loved the point where the driver said he had to ...