Western Wanderers: Into the City

Sunday 13^th November

In my last blog I mentioned that I was not aware of what an artistic barista was and I forgot to include a picture of my flat white. I would like to know how long it took to do.

Barista Art

Anyway about today. Deb and I drove into the city today to have a look around and to get a tram down to Glenelg. I reckon Glenelg is a good word because it is a palindrome. There are not a lot of them and I don’t think that there are any locations that are palindromes.

Glenelg Tram

Glenelg Looking from Jetty

Monument Celebrating Centenary of Settlement in 1936

Notice Dolphin Silhouettes - All are like this

The trip down to Glenelg was another surprise. On weekends in Adelaide, holders of Seniors Cards travel free on public transport. Also during weekdays they travel free between 9.00 am and 3.00 pm.

We were down in Glenelg yesterday afternoon and I reckon there were more people around then than there were today. Good to walk around and easier to see what was there. Being a seaside area we decided that fish for lunch would be appropriate. The restaurant we had lunch had been the champion or runner up fish shop for a number of years and the lunch proved it. As well as the fish and chips we had some salt and pepper squid and I reckon it was the best I have tasted. It melted in your mouth. It was not chewy like some squid/calamari I have been served.

A Friend in Rundle Mall

Adelaide is a beautiful city with a lot of old buildings still in use. When we got to the city today we parked in Frome Street which is close to both University of Adelaide and South Australia University. Both universities have campuses in the city and their buildings are of the older variety. I suppose there are older buildings in other cities but not so obvious.

SA Museum

Queensland University have some very good examples but they are at the campus at St Lucia so the general public aren’t aware of them. So many buildings around here have got a lot of character.

On our way back from the city Deb and I decided to follow our noses and found quite a few older houses that have the thatched type fences, even behind the caravan park there is a house called Carrick Hill which is a period home that still has most of it’s contents intact and its grounds undiminished. (I got that bit from the web site).