Tag: Adelaide

Footy (AFL) at the Adelaide Oval Part One

Last week it was soccer. This week, it’s the real deal (as far as the locals are concerned): Australian Rules Football– Aussie Rules. We decided to go for the full atmospheric experience and take the free special footy bus from Glenelg. We were the only passengers. Eventually, as the bus wound its circuitous way through

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Rectangular game on an oval field

As fever pitches ever higher for the visit of Liverpool to play Adelaide United, reds v reds, at the Oval, this was last year’s glamour game – Malaga FC. Sadly I don’t have a ticket for the ‘Pool Football (known here as soccer) came to the recently opened Adelaide Oval with a touch of Iberian

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Thirty-one seven part two

Whisked away by cab from stormy shores to Hindley Street, Adelaide’s notorious red light area. Where was she taking me? To the gastronomic mini-precinct of Leigh Street. First stop, cava and pinxtos (Basque tapas) at Udaberri. Sitting by the window, we could be in another city, Madrid in winter, or Melbourne in any season. Then

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