I have a lot of friends who live in or who are from Adelaide.
When my parents first arrived in Australia as young immigrants, they each independently chose Adelaide as their first city to live in. It was actually in Adelaide that they first met and it was in Adelaide that they fell in love and eventually married.
I also remember that Adelaide was the destination of one of the better childhood holidays that my family had.
All of this combined to give make me feel some kind of connection to Adelaide.
When a group of friends all decided to congregate in Adelaide for the weekend, I decided to jump on a plane and to join them. It had been years since I had been there and it was the first time I had the opportunity to go there as an adult, independent of reliance on other adults.
The event I attended was of no real consequence. It went off without a hitch and it was good to catch up with my friends.
What was more of a shock was the day we had left in Adelaide to explore.
Three of us had decided to take the evening flights out of Adelaide so that we would have the whole of Monday to look around. We really didn't find much. Within a few hours we felt as though we had wandered around most of the city of Adelaide. We walked through the main CBD, through the museum, through the gallery, around some of the shopping malls and then we aimless wandered up and down the streets.
The highlight was the giant steel balls in the middle of Rundle Mall.
When my parents first arrived in Australia as young immigrants, they each independently chose Adelaide as their first city to live in. It was actually in Adelaide that they first met and it was in Adelaide that they fell in love and eventually married.
I also remember that Adelaide was the destination of one of the better childhood holidays that my family had.
All of this combined to give make me feel some kind of connection to Adelaide.
When a group of friends all decided to congregate in Adelaide for the weekend, I decided to jump on a plane and to join them. It had been years since I had been there and it was the first time I had the opportunity to go there as an adult, independent of reliance on other adults.
The event I attended was of no real consequence. It went off without a hitch and it was good to catch up with my friends.
What was more of a shock was the day we had left in Adelaide to explore.
Three of us had decided to take the evening flights out of Adelaide so that we would have the whole of Monday to look around. We really didn't find much. Within a few hours we felt as though we had wandered around most of the city of Adelaide. We walked through the main CBD, through the museum, through the gallery, around some of the shopping malls and then we aimless wandered up and down the streets.
The highlight was the giant steel balls in the middle of Rundle Mall.
There is absolutely nothing "wrong" with Adelaide.
It's a beautiful city (city feels a bit strong... town may be a more appropriate description).
It just felt to us that it was the type of place that needed a weekend and a car so that we could explore the Adelaide region itself. Staying in the town itself didn't give us tourists anything to be excited about.
By 4:30pm, we were bored enough that we decided to go to the airport.
It had been nice to reconnect with my Adelaide roots, but I don't think I'll be rushing back.
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