An expat Brit in South Australia
Late summer/early autumn, February-March, is the best time to visit Adelaide, South Australia. Often regarded as ‘conservative’, the city comes alive during the twin events of the Adelaide Festival and Fringe. For three Covid-conscious festival seasons audiences and artists alike laboured under a cloud of anxiety. Would their show be cancelled? Would a key cast
I’ve said many times in this blog that the self-styled ‘Festival State’ has a festival for everything and anything. This particular weekend it was time for cheese to take centre stage and be celebrated (and consumed in artery-worrying amounts)- washed down with wine of course. Cue another dozen festivals! A rain free day of around
They call South Australia the Festival State. We have festivals for everything. We have wine festivals, a cheese festival and (literally across the road) a vegan festival, beer and barbecue festival, The Adelaide Festival of the Arts aka The Festival, and its more unruly sibling: the Adelaide Fringe. There are festivals for cabaret, guitars, literature,
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