Tag: Glenelg

Australia Day 2015

An invisible suitcase of dreams. Australia Day began cool, cloudy and not beachy, or summery at all, but that did not dampen the spirits of the new citizens, their supporters or the other hundreds of people who turned up at Glenelg Beach for the Australia Day Ceremony. We’ve heard of this day’s overly nationalistic xenophobic

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TDU#2 – Tour Down Under

Thousands gathered in Moseley Square for the Glenelg start of stage four of the Tour Down Under. Bikes hung as decorations from every conceivable place as if the whole town had turned into a giant hipster cafe catering for a lycra convention. The amateur race had set off hours before, the professional riders were all

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Lace and lycra: TDU#1

Every year for a week in January, Adelaide goes mad for lycra, carbon fibre and two wheels as the Tour Down Under (TDU) rolls into town. For a short while lace and cotton trumped lycra For the first time in years Glenelg had a stage start and to celebrate the occasion the council organised a

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