Arriving Adelaide, we had mixture of feelings. Excited and happy, but also frustrated with the traffic. We are just not used the traffic now. LOL. We found the cheaper caravan park, about 7kms out of the city. Brownhill Creek Caravan Park. Costs $25 for unpowered site. It has good facilities, and if you are lucky maybe able to see koalas on the big trees. The caravan park in the city is more costly, $38 per night but near to the city.
We planned to stay 6 days in Adelaide, trying to update our blog and also enjoy the city life. About 700m walk from the caravan park, there’s bus stop no.17 which leads to city. Bus fare from 9am to 3pm is $2.90 for regular rate like us. Student rate is so much cheaper. After 3pm, the fee will be a whopping $4.60! Gosh, it’s really expensive. But we think it is still cheaper than staying in the city hostel or caravan park, even driving to city is costly due to parking fees. There’s a 10 trips bus ticket which you can purchase from the public transport office in the city. It costs $30.90 for the 10 trips, meaning about $3.09 per trip. It’s more economic, if you plan to use it 10 times.
First point of interest for us, the national library =) Well, they offer free wifi and pc for public use, and their connection is so fast. Then we went to the famous Adelaide Central Market*****. It’s a must go place for us. We walked from the library to the market, took about 15mins. There is free bus service in Adelaide CBD, bus no.99C which runs a loop. So it will stop nearby Central Market. That’s of course easier than walking.
It was so nice walking in the market, all sorts of fresh fruits and veggies, cafes and Asian restaurants. We bought some veggies and pita bread (only $1.50). There’s Coles supermarket in this central market, but it’s more expensive than the stall vendors. We stopped by at a restaurant, Malacca Corner$, which is owned by our friend, Andrea’s foster mother. We tried their famous Rendang Chicken with rice. It tasted good, quite big portion too =) There’s a food court inside the market with so many stalls offering Asian food. Remember to check the opening times of the market as it varies. It closes on Wednesday, so during Tues, around the end of business hours, the veggies vendors will sell their products at discount. That is the best time to get cheap food =)
Gouger St***** (just next to central market), is the Chinatown precinct of Adelaide, offering so many options. Walking along this street, we were attracted by the coffee aroma from Cibo Espresso. In we go! Their cakes and nibbles look so tasty. So we tried their Cibocinno (hazelnut cappuccino) and Torta al Formaggio (Italian Apricot cheesecake). It was absolutely delicious!!! We’ll go back there again for sure. Cibo Espresso is everywhere in Adelaide, it is an Italian concept coffee house.
Thanks to Andrea’s recommendation, we head on to Fortune Duck Restaurant at Gouger St to savor the roast duck! This is what we call roast duck, unlike the one we ate at Port Lincoln. LOL. Half duck costs $16.80, and their rice is $2 per person. We ordered 2 servings of rice, but it seems like 4 people can eat it. Too much. . . Erm, we manage to finish it eventually.. HAhaha. . .
