Adelaide the festival city

Trip Start Dec 14, 2007
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Trip End Mar 16, 2009


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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

IMH: Adelaide is a beautiful city with wonderful history and architecture. The colonists who arrived from 1836 built in stone and their architectural heritage is well preserved, giving Adelaide its elegant air. It's also Australia's cultural capital with many different festivals all year round. There's a sense of space. Adelaide's remarkable parklands let the city breathe. Suburban parks, street tree canopies and private gardens make this an urban place that's surprisingly close to nature.
 
We took a walk through their beautiful botanical garden which also hosts the Australian Wine Centre (managed jointly the University of Adelaide), where we got a complete interactive history of the Australian wine industry as well as the different grape types and their characteristics, best of all it was free.
 
A great plus is that our accommodation is so much better than before (best so far actually) One of many old hurches
One of many old hurches
 . We still shared bathrooms, but it was definitely much better than our last few days in WA (Pemberton, Walpole and our last night in Perth).
 
Another lesson Australia has thought me so far (10 days into the trip) is that there is such a thing as "over-politeness". Here, people just walk over you, especially if you let them - you think you're just giving the Tannie behind you in the plane a chance to exit ahead of you and then the entire plane exists with you having to wait till last (to Ryan's frustration). I guess before, when we've been on holiday, I didn't mind people pushing me around or 'misusing' my efforts of politeness as you're probably more chilled when you're on holiday. I'm slowly starting to become more assertive though - enough pushing and shoving and I'll be in front by the end of the 14 months J.
 
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