Adelaide
Travel Blogs from Adelaide, Australia
4's more fun when camping - welcome Bev & Chris
... was a big festival on which included music concerts and comedy shows. There was also the Clipsal 500 - a V8 car tournament only in Australia - hugely popular in Australia, especially amongst the “Bogans” (a new word we had learned, Australian ...
Adelaide
... impress me... nothing wrong, it just isn't Sydney. In the evening there was a a talk in the hostel about trips around Australia including an auction of various activities. Not many people turned up and some of them had already been to the East Coast, ...
Last day driving, to Adelaide.
... un Quarter Pounder et un rouleau de caramel mini de la boulangerie McCafe. Nous avons ensuite dirigé plus vers Adelaide, s'arrêtant de nouveau à environ 4 heures à une station d'essence, d'aller aux toilettes et obtenir des boissons hors de ...
Alice Springs And Back Again
... , "Just get yourself a good book and sit by the pool for two days while you wait for the Heading Bush two day express back to Adelaide." I still haven't read the book. Ok, so I'm not saying that Alice is a 24 hour party town but when ya rock up with 10 of ...
Another Rest Day / Work Catch-up
I’d been burnt a bit more and had a headache from the sun yesterday. With this in mind I decided to stay in all day. During the morning I was on my laptop and managed to connect to some random wi-fi network. To the uninitiated this means I’ve ...
Glenelg / Beach Cricket
... and got ready. We walked down to the nearby Victoria Square, which is where the tram to Glenelg departs from. Glenelg is Adelaide’s beach suburb. I hadn’t seen any pictures so didn’t know what to expect. The tram took about twenty five ...
Recovering from Yesterday
... is in major shock after my comeback! I think I’ll ease myself back a bit more next time. As it was extremely humid in Adelaide today I didn’t go anywhere in the morning. I just sat on the laptop writing yet more of this blog. I’m now at ...
at least there's *one* good thing...
wow, what a boring city!! it's pretty, it's got a nice river, lots of churches, some buildings, some more churches...and that's about it. it does have one saving grace though - an English sweet shop!! Ludo and Jenga in bed at the hostel were made sooo ...
Endelig ankommet vaart andre delmaal: Adelaide
... og bekjente. I dag, soendag, har vi vaert paa vinsmaker-tur til Barossa Valley, et av de bedre vindistriktene i Australia. En times kjoeretur gjennom Adelaide Hills - vi saa baade ville emuer og kenguruer. Det var en kjempebra tur arrangert av Sue og ...
Brown snake og andre krapyler
I dag ved frokostbordet fikk vi oss en stoekk. Plutselig fikk vi oeye paa en liten pusling i hjoernet paa terassen, noe vi synes var besyndelig likt en god norsk staalorm. Mari S og Ane fant dette selvfoelgelig veldig underholdende og forsoekte aa faa ...
MESSENGER ARTICLE
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South Australia and the Great Ocean Road
... Camel rock formation. Wednesday saw the start of our Great Ocean Road journey. We crossed the border from South Australia to Victoria and changed the clocks half and hour (confusing) and braced ourselves for some fantastic scenery - and, you ...
Adelaide
... hiking and beach-walks. It was cold most of the time, and rained quite a bit as well, but that's winter in southern Australia, I guess. It was still beautiful. We caught sunset over a foggy 12 Apostles, which provided us with some fantastic pictures of ...
Day 75 - Adelaide (Final Day)
... on the participants. We went for a walk up the street checking out some shops and had a coffee then made our way back to Adelaide Shores walking along the beach for part of the way. Later in the afternoon Brian and Jenny went off to the Prominent Hill ...
Adelaide
Home Again! Nothing to do now but plan out engagement party and our next trip. The next trip incidentaslly will be our marriage in Thailand via my old mans 50th in Bali. For our honeymoon, we are going to Ethiopia, Tanzania and ...
The end of my short trip
... and all the biodiversity of Australia. The Art Gallery is very pleasant, you can admire painting about the discovery of Australia by settlers. For example a painting shows settlers going across the rain forest and the details of the painting are ...
Nevermind Tours Motorbiking Vietnam blog 18
... and its bloody cold outside. Then there was the new supermarket style self check in for Qantas domestic flights. I arrived in Adelaide with no sleep for almost 36 hours and greeted by my Beautiful Princess The Sumatran Tiger whom for 1 second ...
Adelaide
... - in the 850 kilometres there are only 10 towns and 5 train stops - there's a 30 minute time difference between Melbourne and Adelaide - the train staff are all happy people, same going out on the Saturday as coming back on the Wednesday. I felt like ...
Day 67 - Adelaide (McLaren Vale & Peninsula)
... for a coffee and to plan the days outing. We headed off in their car to check out some sites on the Fleurieu Peninsula south of Adelaide. We ended up right down the bottom of the Peninsula at Deep Creek in the National Park. It was windy and cold so not a ...
Day 68 - Adelaide (Adelaide City & Hills)
This was the second day of our guided tour from the 'Foreman's Tour Company (just jokin) around Adelaide. We caught up to Declan and Trish again and drove down to Glenelg to check out the sites. This is a really pretty part of the city - nice parks, new ...
"We're all free settlers don't you know?"
... . After some croissants and jam we walked south on the banks of the Torrens River amidst joggers and cyclists to the South Australia Art Gallery. Carole went to see the John Brack exhibition and I got a regular tour around the gallery from the colonial ...
Adelaide - hill country exploration
Like the last entry, I'll update this one later but it does have pictures! Basically, we drove around the hill country, visited Mount Lofty and enjoyed the ...
From 4 days to 10: Day 7 (Friday)
... head to Carrickalinga beach which has some really cute and likely ridiculously expensive holiday homes. This area of Adelaide and Adelaide in general, I find are really nice places because it hasn’t become overly saturated with tourists. ...
Nevermind Tours - Motorbiking VietNam - blog 1
... I've done some motorcycling with Princess Tia who is a Minangkabau native. Travelling alone is something I haven’t done outside of Australia, this will be a totally new experience for me. LETS SEE HOW FAR I CAN GO UP THE ROAD ! Most importantly, ...
Adelaide to Sydney - Days 1 and 2
... surprised to see a camel doing the equivalent to our donkey rides! We then headed up to Salisbury (if you didn't already know, Australia is full of English towns/citys names, I went to Liverpool the other day!). We went to Lauren's Auntie's who was ...
Great Ocean Road to Adelaide
... , with temperatures over 35 degrees for over 12 days - on the day we arrived, the temperature hit 42 degrees! When we arrived in Adelaide, we made it quite quickly to the pick up point for our second vehicle, which was a Maui camper, and top of the ...

