Adelaide (named after William IV's consort) is of course the capital of South Australia which has the boast of being the only state not founded by convicts. SA is about 7.5 x the size of the UK and about 83% of its 1.7m people live in the capital region. In fact it's second largest city, Mount Gambier, has a mere 30,000 inhabitants.
Adelaide is gorgeous; full of parks and green spaces and the River Torrens running through the centre helps make for a really beautiful city with so many areas for people to relax and enjoy themselves.
Not sure what this little shrimp was doing out of the water - dying probably.
Adelaide Oval
Don Bradman
The old parliament building.
The fusion of old and new buildings works quite well.
This fairly new building, known as The Cheese Grater houses SA's Medical Research and Science Centre.
Graffiti, the same the world over.
After a couple of hours wandering around we were hungry and looked around for a sandwich (neither of us having much appetite for food). You could buy food from practically any nation, Thai, Vietnamese, Mexican, Chinese, Greek, Arabic - you name it but nowhere could we find a simple sandwich. So we headed for Tourist Information and they suggested a food hall which provided us with the something edible although not the nicest we've had. We then caught the free tram back to near our hotel so that we could check in. The plan was then to catch another tram to the coastal area of Glenelg but that never quite happened as I fell asleep almost as soon as we got in our room.
Ian woke me around 18:00 and we went up to the Skyline bar, he was hungry and decided on a pizza and a glass of wine but I just ordered a bowl of chips and water. Strangely Mayonnaise seems to be known universally here as alioli, which to us means garlic mayonnaise, but there is no hint of garlic. We were just at the right time to enjoy the setting sun over the Adelaide Hills - I'd not taken my camera so just a phone snap.
Remember the "you call that a knife - this is a knife" scene from Crocodile Dundee
I still feel shattered so hopefully I might sleep tonight.