We started our day at Adelaide Central Market where you can buy fresh produce and delicacies. The selection is phenomenal I wished we would have had the opportunity to turn these fresh ingredients into a delicious meal in our Airbnb.
After coffee in the shopping district we walked to the State Library of South Australia to see the Mortlock Wing, or as a young woman volunteering at an exhibition in the library put it: the Harry Potter Reading Room.
Adelaide has a huge Botanical Garden and as temperatures were high once again we longed for some shade. So strolling through these beautiful gardens was wonderful and some relief from the heat.
Within the Botanical Garden we came across „Wined“ in the National Wine Centre of Australia. It is Australia‘s largest wine tasting room featuring 120 wines from 55 regions.
Besides offering the ability to taste Australian wines the National Wine Centre provides an insight into wine making in Australia in their wine museum.
As we had driven through the Coonawarra wine region just the day before and were intrigued by how big some of these vineries wer we took the opportunity to learn more about the history of Australian wines. Of course we also had to sample some them.
An inscription at the National Wine Centre read:
Wine is sunlight held together by water
Galileo Galilei
We visited Adelaide at the time of the Fringe Festival and had heard that at South Australia University there would be a „festival within the festival“, the „Floods of Fire Festival“. We went over in early evening to find out what it was all about and enjoyed dinner from one of the food trucks and took in the atmosphere.
Images from left to right:
Top left: Little Amal, „a 3.5-metre puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl who has become global symbol of human rights. She began her journey in 2021 walking from the Syria-Türkiye border to the United Kingdom. Since then, she has travelled to 15 countries, been welcomed by two million people on the street and connected with tens of millions online. […] Amal’s walks are travelling festivals of wonder, hope and art that draw attention to the millions of children fleeing war, violence and persecution around the world.“ (https://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/events/little-amal-in-adelaidehttps://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/events/little-amal-in-adelaide)
Top right: Food and drink at the University‘s „Unibar“, a bar on the premises of the South Australia University in Adelaide
Bottom: Public concert and speeches on the University‘s Math Lawns. First Nations people performing a fire ritual.
