Australia

[PerkyOchrePeer]

I first went to sydney 20 years ago. I was not keen as i dont like built up cities but iwas staying with relatives near manly so it was a cheap holiday. I went back to australia last year to perth and adelaide and whilst they are cities, they are smaller so i thought I would enjoy them. I did at first but then got very homesick for the uk lifestyle and when i was in adelaide all the shops close at 5pm and the place was dead. Im used to shops staying open u til 9pm daily and the towns being buzzing

Did you try the free hop on and off city connector bus and tram service

Yes

Mate, don’t come back. Honestly you didn’t like it last time you won’t like it if you come again. You are unfortunately the very true stereotype of the whinging Pom we all hate here. Stay there.

The North Terrace stop has plenty of museums and art galleries, some of the finest .

I’ll bite - there’s a cafe in the botanic gardens in Adelaide. Quite a substantial one actually. Let alone the whole street of cafes across the road

i remember your other threads too. Just be thankful you never have to go to somewhere that clearly disappointed you

I think there are 3 cafes in the gardens, all offering different menu.

Do you enjoy travelling OP? Discovering new places? Are there other places you have enjoyed or maybe you are just happy staying in the UK.

Australia has some beautiful natural scenery and wildlife. I wouldn’t live there but the natural scenery is so different to anywhere else.

You have to visit places with an open mind and stop comparing them to others. I am
not sure why people compare UK and Australia. Very different places

I agree. OP is one of those Brits who expects every other part of the world to be exactly the same as home, and complains if it's not. Boring as....

I might go back to adeĺaide. Its nice there

Wherever you go... there you are.

If you hate cities I'm amazed you liked DC, I found it really deprived and depressing. People were even begging inside Mcdonalds.

I think you need to stop listening to your 'friend' and find some real friends.

I agee. For example, the embassies and high commissions in Canberra are interesting for their unique, often themed, architecture, designed to represent their nation's culture or landscape. You need a car to get around, but it's easy to spend the best part of a day tootling from one to the another, with refreshment stops.

For some bizarre reason, Cockington Green, just across the border from NSW (where else?), entertained me immensely. But then, the most interesting thing I saw when visiting Mallorca was the Pueblo Español. The second most interesting was the twisting road as seen on the cover of one of Malcolm Saville's Marston Baines books that I read at 13 (the actual reason I had to go to Mallorca 12 years later).

I might have odd tastes/interests.

Well, if the pinnacle of visiting Australia is watching filming of Home and Away, then I guess Adelaide is probably the place for you.

I’m Australian (from Sydney) and went to Adelaide once, only to confirm, it is indeed very dull. Unless you are very into wine and go for that aspect (and fair call), then you couldn’t pay me to return.

I don’t understand why you wouldn’t go up and spend time on the reef, or in Kakadu, or the Kimberly, or why if in WA, you wouldn’t have gone to Ningaloo etc. You come all the way here and go to Adelaide, which just seems so odd, and like, why would you bother?

As for roo’s, I’m guessing you mean wallabies, or Eastern grey’s, not the traditional Red’s as they just want to punch the shit out of you while trying to kill you (upright they would tower over me if I was ever stupid enough to be near one, which I’m not given I’m neither a pro Boxer or UFC so wouldn’t stand a chance). If you really love them so much, go out on the interstate’s mid morning and you’ll get to ‘meet’ as many as you want that were plastered on road truck bull bars on their dawn run. When our kids were young and we did road trips, we stopped occasionally to let them ‘pat’ them as was very safe🤣🤣🤣.

Adelaide is not dull. I love it. I did not like sydney. .I went to Handorf.

Well, the brilliant news for you is that if you don’t think Adelaide is dull, then there are literally thousands of towns in Australia that you would love. Spoilt for choice.