Another day of walk, walk, walking and loved it! You are a beautiful city Adelaide!.............................
Caught the bus to Glenelg and then the tram into the city this morning!
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| Military Road, which runs along the beaches, is a favourite track for the cyclists - lots and lots of them both Saturday and today! Entertained us while waiting for the Glenelg bus! |
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| Riding the tram from Glenelg to the CBD |
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Walk, walk,walk............
Across the Torrens to North Adelaide on King William Road, St Peter's Cathedral, Light's Vision, O'Connell Street, Melbourne Street, the Zoo, the Botanical Gardens, North Terrace, Rundle Mall,
and then caught the bus back to West Beach.
Another great day of exploring! |
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| View of the Entertainment Centre as we crossed the Torrens |
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| A Sunday serenade! :) |
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| The Adelaide Oval is getting a revamp! |
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| The end product in 2014! |
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Crossing the bridge to North Adelaide on King William Road
St Peter's stunning spires seemed to be on the skyline were ever you looked on this side of the river |
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| St Peter's Cathedral |
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| The beautiful spires - again! |
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Colonel William Light
"Look down there at my vision!"
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His vision - the lovely planned city of Adelaide!
The view from the hill where Colonel Light watches over his creation |
It was relaxing walking in North Adelaide - the streets are lined with a lot of beautiful trees, many already turning their stunning autumn colours, there are a lots of parks, and of course the lovely heritage buildings and homes with fantastic gardens to admire! We meandered around for quite a few hours and quite a few kilometres!
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| The quaint Queen's Head Hotel |
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| He wasn't at all worried about us! Asleep probably! |
O'CONNELL STREET
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O'Connell Street is a lovely tree lined street crowded with lovely restaurants and cafes
Many Adelaideans were out brunching and lunching! |
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| The retro Piccadilly Cinema |
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| This lovely heritage building now houses the classy Oxford Restaurant |
MELBOURNE STREET
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| Lovely Mann Road off Melbourne Street |
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| Wang Wang and Funi at the Zoo are the only Giant Pandas in the Southern Hemisphere |
THE BOTANIC GARDENS
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| Murdoch Avenue |
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| Pete loved this shop - there were no plants that it didn't have seeds for!!!! An interesting browse! |
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| What an amazing museum!!!! |
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| Joseph Bank's Journal was on display in the Museum |
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The botanist that accompanied Captain Cook!
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| The Bicentennial Conservatory |
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| The beautiful rainforest inside the Conservatory |
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| The Giant Fern |
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| Beautiful! |
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They were holding a Public Judging of the roses - we had a lovely time and filled out our five preferences!
We really did "stop and smell the rose's" today! :) |
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| The Rainforest Conservatory was a spectacular backdrop to the gorgeous Rose Gardens |
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| My No 1 - amazing perfume and colours! Perfect bud! |
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| The blossoming rose |
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| My No 2 |
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| My No 3 |
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| No 4 |
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| A sea of perfume and colour! |
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Pete discussing vegetable growing with one of the gardeners/volunteers (Friends of the Gardens)
They hold talks on Sundays about all sorts of aspects of gardening |
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| The daddy of Botany! |
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| Didn't know there were so many types of Cacti |
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| The Palm House |
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| The Mediterranean Garden |
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| Kainka Wirra Lake |
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The Statue of Hebe in the lovely Lavender
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| The lovely heritage hotel on North Terrace at the Entrance to the Botanical Gardens |
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| Autumn is here! |
RUNDLE MALL
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| This way and that.... |
FAREWELL ADELAIDE
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| A perfect end to our stay in Adelaide - very pretty! |
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Brunching in North Adelaide! Very polite - even got the pinkie out! :)
My nature shot today! |
WOW!! What a Nice pics collection i like it.
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