Adelaide: Around Town

Adelaide, population 1.5 million is the capital of South Australia. It's more like a small town at heart, reminds me more of Raleigh than the other cities. More importantly it demonstrates to me how a sprawling city can have thriving downtown, pedestrian streets, suburban trains, trams, bus, gardens, museums.... It was quite eye opening. I also realized it's the public infrastructures that really impress me about a city, not the malls, tall office buildings, ritzy cars... rather off putting.

Each day while in Adelaide we walked on the Rundel Mall at least once.




We happened to arrive on the last day of glass artist Dale Chihuly's exhibition at the Botanical Garden, who we only know from the Victoria and Albert, making a very awesome garden even more exciting. 






















In addition to the Chihuly exhibit, the Botanic Garden has an awesome Museum of Economic Botany. We were fascinated by the specimen cases.










Somerville Reading Room of the State Library of South Australia


Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA)










We shopped for groceries at Coles - loved the vegan section.






One day we rode the free City Connector bus (1st below) to North Adelaide to check out some Art Deco and Modernist Architecture.