Our first glimpse of beautiful Adelaide

Yesterday after we arrived and unpacked, we headed out to Woolies to purchase food for the next few days as we have a kitchenette in our room.

After we found Woolies, it found it was 2 stories but only a very small Woolies, so small it only has baskets and not trolleys. We found everything we needed though. It was raining when we came into and Adelaide on the train and it was still raining. I nearly fell a few times walking to and from as the pathways were very slippery.

As it was raining, and it was getting late afternoon, we stayed in for the rest of the day and just relaxed.

After a pretty good nights sleep even though Dave and I both missed the constant rocking of the train to put us and keep us asleep.

Unfortunately washing doesn’t go on holidays when you travel so we headed to the guest laundry to put our washing on while we ate breakfast in our room. Man wasn’t that a huge reality check, cereal and banana instead of being waited on with a cooked breakfast.

Once we were ready, we headed out to explore the streets of Adelaide. With a beautiful crisp breeze in our faces, we headed off without any plan other than to explore the city.

And what a beautiful city it is, so many beautiful churches and cathedrals, stone buildings and amazing old buildings. We walked past Adelaide oval and took a photo from the gate. Even though everyone says we need to do a tour, Dave and I aren’t real cricket or AFL fans so this will be all we need to see.

The Adelaide Marathon was on today which we didn’t realise so the riverwalk was very busy so we will explore that tomorrow.

A quick stop off out the room to have lunch before heading out again to explore more of the city. We stopped off at the Cooper’s Bar for a pint, well Dave did.

We stopped off at St Francis Xavier Cathedral and had a look around inside. I did have a bit of a chuckle as when you walk in there are eftpos machine for the offering. So different to passing around the plate for the offering.

We did a bit of window shopping in Rundle Mall before the rain chased us back to our room.

Looking forward to another day of exploring tomorrow.Læs mere