Adelaide Campgrounds - Reviews and Rates

Adelaide has been sweltering with a few 40+ days and more to come. Yesterday was forecast as a 41 but didnt get that high. Today is forecast as a 39, with 41 tomorrow. This all means a slight change of plans and a couple of days towards the coast and away from high fire danger areas.

Last night we had dinner with Rick Clise - a guy I work...

E hung around the hostel for the morning before going out after lunch to meet Sarah - who we met in Vang Vieng. Sarah's friend Abby also joined us at The Austral for a few afternoon beers. Abby's Mum's boyfriend (almost married) is a guy called Simon Hackett who has his own winery in the McClaren Vale. They also export a lot of wine to the UK. A...

Adelaide - 31st January The first thing I have to tell you is that I feel lucky to be alive. I usually enjoy landing and take off and I have, in the past, poured scorn on people who have said they are frightened- but not anymore. What made my palms sweat (and Gill eat a much-hated peppermint) was a most unexpected aborted landing. It had been ve...

17th January - one of the greatest days of the year as its my birthday. And this years was more different than ever as I spent 6 hours of it in airports and on planes flying from Perth to Adelaide. On arrival in Adelaide we checked into a hostel called tattersalls which i particularly liked because a) it was above a 24 hour bar (but soundproofe...

Merry Christmas from down under - the world may be round, but christmas here is a little upside down! There is more fake snow, reindeer and father christmas parades (in November) than in places where these things would more viable, even advisable! This morning I was surprised that father christmas' bags hadn't been opened with abandon - the corr...

Sometimes the greatest moments are the simplest. Dined last night with the lovely Irish Philomena from the tour. We chose well. A beautiful Italian restaurant called Diogini's around the corner from the hostel. Linen table cloths and sparkling, heavy cutlery and three charming waiters all at our service. I know it's just eating, just food, but i...

First things first, an amazing flight to Adelaide, crossing over the Outback. There were patches which looked like they'd been control-burned by the government, completely black and flat but had white salt lakes - very striking. The other great thing was I got my (pre-registered) gluten-free meal before anyone else got their meal - a good trick ...

It is summer in Adelaide and temperatures have been up to 40C. My son, Jason, arrived at 7.00am to pick us up to take us to the Adelaide airport. It was good that Barbara had insisted that I check that our flight was checked all the way from Adelaide to Madrid. When I called Qantas they at first could not find us. The 7.45am flight had been canc...

We arrived in Adelaide, bag over one shoulder, bike under the other, not knowing where to go or how to get there! The flight had deflated the bike tyres and the bikes were too big to get into the back of a taxi... d'oh! We finally came across a bus that could take us to the centre of town where we stayed in a shabby hostel, which may have been t...

My days in Australia are over and I am enjoying the last few hours of my Aussie experience in Adelaide, where I arrived last Tuesday. By the time you'll be reading this I will be some 12 hrs away from your time zone and under the sky of New Zealand. Adelaide has been the perfect ending to a fantastic one and a half months. From my base at Annie'...