Adelaide and The Barossa Valley

After our exciting shark diving experience, we decided to have a few days of relaxation instead. Adelaide was the perfect city for this, much quieter and chilled out than some of the other big cities we’d visited so far.

The sun was shining (as usual) and we hit Glenelg first. There were lots of cute little shops near to the golden sandy beach, so we took the opportunity to treat ourselves in a chocolate shop to some coffee and home-made cake – yum!

We visited The Art Gallery of South Australia, which although had a few interesting pieces, it was not one of our favourites so far. The architecture of the building was pretty impressive though.

In the morning, we grabbed breakfast and had a quick mooch around the markets in centre which held everything from fruit and veg to clothes.

A fellow traveller Becky had met when she first came out happened to be in Adelaide too, so we met up with Ros and had an afternoon of chilling out in Adelaide’s Botanical Gardens. Becky even made friends with a duck by coaxing him in with her favourite lime and chill sensation biscuits.

Our time around Adelaide was fairly short, but we enjoyed it nonetheless. The surroundings area of Adelaide are famous for their wine, however, after our Margaret River shenanigans, we decided to avoid another wine tour. Instead, we took what we’d learned from our wine tour and decided that we would buy a lovely bottle of Moscato from the Jacob’s Creek Winery, which happened to be in the Barossa Valley region just north of Adelaide. Our plan was to save our fancy bottle of wine until Christmas day… let’s see if it would last!

The winery was beautiful in the glorious weather and spread over so much of the surrounding areas. We had a little sample of the few Moscato wines on offer and chose our favourite, wrapping it up safely in our car.

Although we had only spent a short time in South Australia, it was definitely an exciting state! We would be travelling over the border in the state of Victoria next. More coming soon…

Peace and Love,
Lyds & Bex
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