Category: culture

Window to the sky

The venue felt and looked like someone’s back yard. I think it was someone’s back yard. A makeshift bar offered such drinks as “chapange” and “charbonay.” A small stage area had been constructed and the sound system sounded “bespoke.” After a hot, hot day  when the mercury had been pushed to its limits, the trees stressed

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Haggis, neeps and tattoos

Variations on a theme Being the 25th of January, and especially as one of our nearest pubs is Adelaide’s Scottish pub, the Rob Roy Hotel, it would have been remiss of us, if not downright unpatriotic, not to have celebrated the Bard (Robert Burns) in the traditional way. Traditions remain, but customs change; so instead

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City Sundays

Walyu Yarta community garden, Adelaide

7 Sunday activities in Adelaide What to do on a Sunday afternoon? Go somewhere else? Get in the car? How about staying where you are? Let me be your Adelaide city tour guide. A gentle bike ride to the Himeji Japanese garden in the South Terrace Parklands… Hang out under a tree with a family

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