Adelaide

My flight to Adelaide was the best so far. Actual nice food, nice sunset out the window for the first half hour or so and three whole rows of seats (both sides) to myself, right at the back of the plane.

Adeaide itself is less spacious. I've been here a day now and it feels like I've done everything there is to do already. It's mostly a bit of a run-down and dead town with a few half decent pedestrianised shopping streets and not much besides. I did however, stumble upon a bit of a hidden gem in the city's Central Market and China Town. There's a huge fresh food and merchandise market, where I found a really nice Fill-Up-This-Plate-And-Bowl-With-As-Much-Food-As-You-Possibly-Can-For-Only-$6.80 (less than 4 quid!) Chinese restaurant. I took full advantage of that offer...

After eating, I wandered round the market looking for nothing in particular. Having found exactly that, I decided it was time to head out of the city. Glenelg Beach is 20 mins away on a rather nice air-conditioned tram. While still technically in Adelaide, it's like a completely different town altogether. Really nice sandy beach, loads of coffee shops and restaurants along the shore and a massive road running away from the beach full of surfing shops, clothes shops and bars. Much nicer than Adelaide city centre, by any means.

I stayed for sunset (about 6pm) and finally had a chance to use all the camera stuff I'd taken. So I was happy for the rest of the evening. :)

I'm now sitting back in the YHA Youth Hostel at 8.50, contemplating going to bed. I've gotta be up at half 5 tomorrow, to catch a 6.20 bus to Melbourne. It'll take at least 3 days (depending if I wanna stop off for more than 1 night anywhere) and the first night will be spent in the Grampians. So I'm very much looking forward to that. The second night will be in Warrnambool (I think I spelt that right), on the Great Ocean Drive. Again, I'm pretty excited to see that too. Then onto Melbourne for a few nights and somehow I'll get to Canberra from there.

Anyway, once again, onto the photos. And to those who doubted me, this is why I bought all that stuff for my camera:






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