With a cooler day in store, we took the opportunity to head by bus into central Adelaide. It’s a city we last visited some 10yrs ago and really enjoyed.

It’s a centre blessed with lots of green spaces which surround the grid of the CBD.

We were hoping to get to do a tour around the Adelaide Oval however it’s currently being used as a concert venue for Pink and so is out of action until after we leave. Instead we dipped into Northern Adelaide and to pretty Melbourne Street, where modern cafes and restaurants are a plenty.

Like many other Australian cities it’s blessed with some magnificent churches, the one below is St Peter’s Anglican cathedral, situated opposite the main hospital and close to the cricket Oval.

Sir Don Bradman the famous South Australian cricketer will always be associated with the state and the ground, however the monument below is in memory of Clem Hill, a pre-war cricketer who was one of the youngest players to ever represent his country at just 16. In truth we’d never heard of him, but do now.

Like other grounds, the Oval is home to Aussie rules as well as cricket so notable monuments on the former were lost on us!

The River Torrens meanders through the city and we took the opportunity to cross it a couple of times and take in the views back over the city and the parks.

As was the case in Melbourne there are a lot of budding restaurants in the West End of the city catering for a whole range of tastes and nationalities. A lot were to be found hidden down side roads, Leigh and Peel Streets being two notable locations.

Sadly for us, Monday proved to a day when a lot of the museums, restaurants and major attractions are closed, so we made the best of our time enjoying North Terrace and Rundle Mall & Street where the notable prestige stores and restaurants were located.

In the evening we met up with Jayne, Andy’s cousin and her boyfriend Mark and went out to a great Italian restaurant down in Glenelg. Got to say it was the best meal and the most we’ve eaten since leaving Sydney!

So great to see some Jayne again and we hope to have some further adventures with them when we return to Australia in early 2025.

Tomorrow it’s due to hit 38 Celsius so we are planning a low key day down on Jetty Road in Glenelg and explore the area given it’s within walking distance.