Without the wintry markers of Halloween, Bonfire Night and the onset of cold weather, it’s hard to remember that Christmas is coming. Fortunately, that’s when the local custom of the Christmas Pageant comes in. Glenelg’s Jetty Road is lined with up to 30,000 people. Kids armed with multi-coloured chalk are encouraged to express their own form of ‘street
Category: Australia
The normally casually dressed citizens of Adelaide are transmogrified into extravagant headwear adorned glamour models on the tram. What can this mean? It’s Melbourne Cup day again, as the whole country stops for a horse race. Our office meeting wrapped up early so we could watch it. Sadly my horse in the office sweep came twentieth out
Weathering the storms of time It’s good that after living here for three years… there are still wonderful places to visit for the first time. Second Valley perhaps set the precedent for obvious place naming so prevalent in South Australia (e.g. Mount Lofty, Kangaroo Island, Diagonal Road, etc.) After British surveyor general and Adelaide founder
Dr D in Oz 