A Quick Trip to Adelaide

In case you cannot see the price of this
chocolate egg, it is $47.50!

I do not have much to write about Adelaide because we did not spend much time there, less than 10  hours.  Our included tour took us by bus for an hour drive into downtown Adelaide where we were dropped off at a mall, or rather a shopping street.  Since we needed to get some more Australian money, we found an ATM.  The ATM only gives out $20 bills, and we needed to get smaller change to tip the guide and driver.  The ATM just happened to be right outside a candy store, so of course, we had to buy some candy to get change. 

Haigh's is supposed to be the best chocolate in Australia.

And then the next store had souvenir hats at a good price, so Darrell needed a new hat.  By then it was almost time for our bus to pick us up, so we did not venture any further down the street.  We met the bus at Bee Hive corner.

The driver tried to point out and identify several sights, but I could not get pictures from the bus, except this one which give you the idea that Adelaide is in the middle of a construction boom like most of Australia.







We next went to the historic seaside resort town of Glenelg. (Try getting your tongue around that palindrome.)  Even the trash cans tell you that it is by the sea.



                            On a lovely Saturday afternoon a lot of locals     
                     were out enjoying the warm sunshine.





















The Town Hall had a fine museum, but there was not enough time to really explore it.  The site where the official Proclamation of the British Colony of South Australia took place is in Glenelg.  There is a park called the Proclamation Grounds.  We did not see it, but there was a picture of it in the museum. 



















          On the main street, just by the beach was               a memorial to the people killed in wars.