Stand by for the screams of outrage from "crow-eaters".
Saw this in yesterday's Sunday Telegraph -no doubt in other Murdoch rags.
Article is titled "Love was all we needed" about 50 years anniversary since Beatles 1964 tour.
Attributed to Allan Howe.
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I have only ever visited Adelaide once -just a few days- and was most impressed by the city.
Lived there for a year and a half - sounds about right to me...
Wife and I spent our honeymoon in Adelaide many years ago and at night Adelaide seemed to have a compulsory curfew around 6pm daily.
Could have fired a machine gun down the main street and hit nothing but glass windows.
However, a couple of years ago we returned to Adelaide (for the coin counterstamp) and things had certainly changed. Noisy, drunks all about the place. But still, a clean city.
Waiting for the locals to come out with all guns blazing!
Being a country chick and moving to the big smoke of Adelaide (after visiting most of the others around the country) I'd much rather live here. Been here 3 years now and I can drive through the city without my gps!
I recall watching the Beatles in a street parade through the centre of the city back then. They were astride Donald Campbells' Bluebird. I was much more impressed with the big blue vehicle. :blush:
All large cities have their pros and cons, I have lived in Adelaide my entire life but used to travel regularly to all the other capital cities for various reasons.
Most of our drunks are football fans from interstate drowning their sorrows after being soundly beaten by Port Adelaide.!!! :sun_bespectacled:
:laugh2: them's near sound like fightin words Robster, I have lived in Brissie and Sydney and been to Adelaide and Perth so still a few more to see so one day I hope to get there as I don't give a rats where ya from it's Australia and a beautiful place in it's own way, but ya can't top the bush as that's where the true beauty is :ok:
Many would agree that the desert regions of South Australia are the moat spectacular in the country.! :angel:
Mate been there done that but can't agree as honestly I can't pick one spot as up here is pretty cool and like you say the desert and great salt lakes are sweet and mind blowing but then there's nothing like standing on the bite and as far as you can see either way is a 300 foot drop straight down so with the roaring 40's I just had to lean as far over as I could as the wind was so strong it was holding me up but I would have been dead in a few seconds if it dropped but I think I was pretty safe, climbing to the very top of things gets me off as well as there's just something about being on top of a mountain and just admire how far you can see and to see the arc of the planet is truly amazing, yep we just don't realise how luck we are on this planet so it's a shame we're destroying it so stop and smell the roses..gee that reminds me that AC asked how things were growing and I said I'd take some pic's for her so I better do it before I forget as it's great being a sieve and I wouldn't want to get in trouble :)
I haven't been to Adelaide
and do want to go there
like others, being a country chick in many ways, if it has a Kmart then to me - it's a big place!
Canberra sort of is like a big country town so it suits us fine
kangaroos around the place and short walks/bike rides to views like this
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Gee we're gonna have some fun but hope the big fellow doesn't think there's something funny going on 'cause I'm pretty hot so would be totally understandable..come on you lot ya gotta try and have a laugh some times even if at your own expense :laugh2:
Very nice RG, so we can wet a line as well :)
gee AJ
I haven't been fishing for years
not sure if you eat the fish here ? something about the blue algae
EEEEK sound like we're off to the local fish monger than :(
woden plaza - top fish shop there - they reckon they get the fish straight from the boats
I can ask the local fishing club about catching fish from the lakes here, there might be hot spots and safe spots?
yep sounds like the safe spot is from the fisho's :) But yeah please find out sometime, and can we use nets there, can't here not even bait nets :(
When I visit Canberra I love to head down to Bateman's Bay for a feed on the wharf.!! Also Bungendore for the amazing one-off timber stuff.!! :angel:
timber stuff, timber stuff...did someone say timber stuff, so what sort because that sounds very interesting as well :good:
http://www.unekefurniture.com/about/index.php
There's this guy in Bungendore (well he used to be). He used to specialise in the use of pine and we had some custom-made units built in an earlier iteration of his business (1980's) that we still have around.
Looks like he may have diversified his use of woods.
Pedro
A.J.- Google wood works gallery Bungendore, makes my eyes water.!!
:yahoo: guess where else we are going RG, thanks heaps Robster, gee there's some nice things there alright :good:
oh ok
you'd better give me plenty of notice ........
and NOT in the middle of summer when all the bushfires are in full swing etc etc
WHAT but winter is way to cold, I'll try and make it mid season so it warm but not hot..it all takes me a lot to organise and no rush here so it's all good mate :)
October is very nice here
sometimes it still snows then too
SNOW GEEEBUS mate you tryin to kill me, ya know I'm temperature sensitive and that's why I wear a beanie most of the year :laugh2: but see what happens as I have only seen snow once so I suppose I can again :)
Quote from: 'JeffH' pid='50175' dateline='1401081223'Stand by for the screams of outrage from "crow-eaters".
Saw this in yesterday's Sunday Telegraph -no doubt in other Murdoch rags.
Article is titled "Love was all we needed" about 50 years anniversary since Beatles 1964 tour.
Attributed to Allan Howe.
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10055/Adelaide.jpg)
I have only ever visited Adelaide once -just a few days- and was most impressed by the city.
Umm, I would tend to agree, I used to drive interstate, and that's one place I couldn't get out of quick enough. There are some nice surrounding areas, like down south such as McLaren Vale, or little towns like Hahndorf.
Hello,
I like Adelaide as it is much like a big Canberra in the feel of the place. Like all big places there is a dark side. I doubt the author knew much or did much research. Lazy fool.
:agreed: We're pretty proud of the place.!!:angel:
I've lived in Adelaide for 3 years now. It's hard to get the New South Welshman out of me but I like this place. The sun rises over the hills instead of the water which is weird for me. I'm not a city person so I guess this is the city to live in. You can't get lost anywhere, drive too far one way you hit the water, too far the other you get the hills. At any given time you can see the hills so I always have my bearings. I don't live right in the city but I can hop on the O'Bahn bus and be there in 15 mins. I don't think you can ask for more than that.
I think that people who feel the need to put down other places that are (generally smaller) than where they live are just expressing a feeling that there's something missing where they live now. It's no different that putting someone down just to make yourself feel better.
Adelaide is a nice, quiet sleepy sort of city. A city of Churches. Can't get lost as everyone is forever telling to go home...........
My wife and I have had a couple of holidays in Adelaide and we have had a great time - great food along Gouger St (?) and plenty to do. Way more coin shops than Perth. I think it's a bit fashionable to bag Adelaide, don't know why.....
Quote from: 'markn' pid='53339' dateline='1403592373'I think that people who feel the need to put down other places that are (generally smaller) than where they live are just expressing a feeling that there's something missing where they live now. It's no different that putting someone down just to make yourself feel better.
Now that's a classic.
I think regardless of where one lives, one will always bag a place other than there own place. It is the thing that generates discussion and friendship and a we bit of controlled rivalry.
Australia is the place to be regardless of where one lives here.
:agreed:
Here you go then for you Adelaideians.
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Worked at a Grand Prix inside the paddock.! Rode a postie bike around the track 30 minutes before the race, didn't get many cheers from the 'adoring fans'.! :blush:
In Melbourne you would of Robster :sportbike:
:yahoo: Because 'red ones go faster'.!