Seeing the sights in Adelaide...

What an awesome place Adelaide is! Bit like a smaller, classier version of Melbourne, less people, greater chance of getting a park, while retaining its old world charm. But boy it has its few little quirks too! Below are a few we have noticed.

• Its power poles are flat (we have round ones)
• The taxis here are white (we have yellow ones)
• Their street signage is terrible, they have little signs and few bigger green signage. We have found this all over SA so far.

But overall we have loved our time in the SA capital city. It feels like it has been a full on whirlwind stay, we have been so many places and seen so many things! We stayed in a great little central caravan park at Marion. One of the nicest parks we have been to. Lovely facilities, great campkitchen, and has a real tropical feel with palms and plants all around amongst big gum trees. And when I booked in they didn't ask me if I had any kids, so I didnt tell them, so it has been considerably cheaper than we expected which has been great! (But everytime we pass the office we get the kids to lean back in their seats and sit very still! Must be our guilty consciences!!!)
 
Highlights in Adelaide include:-

• Had a big cultural day and went to the State Library (kids learnt all about Sir Donald Bradman) and the Art Gallery and the Museum. Kids lapped it all up, and we all felt very intelligent afterwards! (For a short while anyway!)
• Hahndorf was a great day out, so many little shops to visit and things to see.
• The Central Market in town was a great place for food. We wandered up and down the aisles, drooling at the ranges of fruit and veg, cheeses, coffee, nuts, yoghurts...goes on and on
• Went to Mount Lofty and saw the beauty of Adelaide from above

We didnt meet anyone to have a drink with here. Lots of grey nomads in their superb looking vans, and others in their Britz vans who hide inside and didnt come out (we didnt think we looked that scary!) So social wise we dipped out here, and we missed the company of others our age. The kids have been fine, they managed to score a Maccas Bugs bunny and Tweety Bird toys while in Adelaide so they have been off playing quite happily.
Money wise we are still trying to balance ourselves out. When we think about how long we still have to go we are really making an effort to minimise any big spending. I was a bit naughty today and bought myself a new pair of shorts and a top...lets be honest here, i am getting very tired of my same 4 t-shirts and 1 pair of shorts!!! But they were on special so that justifies it for me!
 
Where we are heading from Adelaide...only fate knows...cos we dont! We dont even know which road we are taking, we are so out of routine we have no idea what day it is, and if we have tea by 9.30 we are doing well! Oh and if we feed the kids lunch we are doing even better!!! Yes we are shaking our heads as well!!! Be lucky you are not our travelling companions we would be driving you crazy! (No comments from you either Mrs Rouget!!!)

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