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Adelaide Victoria Square
A modern fountain in the square.ADELAIDE. It was here where were to rest from our trip across Australia, staying with two different family members during our visit.The comments below only touch the surface of the things to experience here, so look elsewhere for more details if you intend to visit.
Our overall impression of Adelaide is a very positive one, and if we were ever to move from the Centre of the Universe (Whitley Bay), this would be on our short list. The city centre is sufficiently small to walk around, and is laid out on a grid system. It has good modern shops with a car free shopping street, but at the same time retains many of its older buildings. It has a Central Market (at the south of the city) which is worth a visit for the general atmosphere – fruit and vegetables, general market items, oriental food and restaurants, etc. Adelaide also has a very good botanic garden, and an excellent museum at the north edge of the central city -plus lots more.
Adelaide’s public transport system is integrated and is very good. It includes trains, modern trams, buses, and a special bus system called the
Adelaide Victoria Square
A mixture of old and new. O-Bahn (claimed to be the biggest of its type in the world. (The O-bahn design uses dedicated bus ways that use concrete guidance rails to automatically steer specially adapted buses. It combines the best of both bus and rail systems in that when on the guidance system, the bus driver doesn’t need to steer, and it behaves like a railway train – very fast public transport. At the end of guidance track, the bus just turns off and becomes a regular bus, negating the need for passengers to change vehicles. Check out Wiki for more info.).
About 25km away is an old German Settlement called Hahndorf, touristy with a small museum but worth a visit if you are in the vicinity.
Mount Lofty is about 15km from Adelaide and provides an excellent viewpoint to look over the city, with local walks.
A suburb of Adelaide is Largs Bay, which has a beach apparently good for families, with two piers, and an old suburb called Semaphore which is also geared up for tourism. It has a snake warning for the dunes though, so be careful!
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Ken Heath
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Whitley Bay Scouts
Nice to see some scouts in Australia and to see that you arrived in Adelaide OK .Things are going good over here But Murry is missing you. Weather here is not very good but should be OK for our Australian Camp. Sorry Viking Camp.They are all armed and ready to go so we should be sailing to Australia soon In a Viking Longboat .