Wed 14 Feb 2024: Haighs, Central Markets, Adelaide to Sydney - Day 6

 Day 6 - Wed 14 Feb 2024 - Checkout - Haighs Chocolate Factory - Sydney

Checkout (luggage in car) Car parked in parking station.

After checking out at 10am - pack luggage into car and walk down the block to take a tram to GreenHills station

Day 6 - Haighs Chocolate Factory tour

10:50am Arrive GreenHills station - walk to chocolate factory

But get there 5mins too late - 11am factory tour has already started - they let us join the tour when the introductions are over. No photos allowed.  See the factory processes.

11:30am End of tour - check out the shop - buy some chocolates to bring back

12:00pm Tram back to city - get off for Central Markets - Valentines day - roses being sold. 

Day 6 - Central Market - Chinatown foodcourt lunch

1:00pm Buy Chatime drinks. Ginger chicken rice - eat in food court.

2:10pm Get free bus back to hotel/car park

2:30pm use toilets at hotel

Take car to Airport

Day 6 - Drive to airport - drop off car.

3:14pm Arrive at airport - Budget drop off

3:30pm Checkin - luggage drop off

3:40-4:00 Security - lots of checking

4:17pm at Gate - Flight is delayed

6:30pm Finally boarding

6:50pm Up in the air

Day 6 - Adelaide to Sydney

9:30pm Arrive back in Sydney - luggage pickup - JT and LC catch bus/train home - Nathan picks us up from pickup point

Tue 13 Feb 2024: Barossa Valley, Adelaide - Day 5

 Day 5 - Tue 13 Feb 2024 - State Library - Museum - University

10:16am War memorial, State Library, Adelaide Museum, 

10:50am Adelaide University

Day 5 - Hire car pickup - Drive to Maggie Beer

11:00am Budget Hire car pickup

12:15pm Maggie Beer Farm - closed

Day 5 - Barossa Valley Chocolates - Ice creamery

1:00pm Barossa Valley Chocolate Company, Chocolate Kitchen and Ice Creamery

Lily and Kaylene buy chocolates

1:18pm Ice creamery - 2 scoops for me - the others have 1 scoop after seeing how big the two scoops is

Day 5 - Tanunda Bakery - Lunch - Pies

1:20pm Tanunda Bakery for lunch

2:10pm back on the road - stop to take photo of church with lined trees, and tin man on corner of road

Day 5 - Beerenberg - Strawberry - Afternoon tea/scones

3:30pm Berenberg Farm, 2106 Mount Barker Rd, Hahndorf SA 5245 - bit late to go strawberry picking. Check out the shop and museum, have scones with jam and wedges before buying some sauces and jams to take back home.

Day 5 - Mount Lofty

5:10pm Arrive at Mount Lofty Summit - lookout. Closed and very cloudy, can just make out the city of Adelaide in the distance. Take photos

6:00pm Leave Mount Lofty

Day 5 - Dinner - Mandoo dumplings and leftovers

Kaylene and I head down to buy dumplings

7:40pm Have dinner - leftovers

Mon 12 Feb 2024: Adelaide City, Adelaide - Day 4

 Day 4 - Mon 12 Feb 2024 - River Parklands - Casino - Railway Station

Forecast to be a very hot day.

12:20pm Check out the pool, sauna, gym, before heading out. Cross street to check out Convention centre, Casino, Railway station.

Day 4 - Rundle Mall shopping - Myers - Uniqlo

Drop Mark at Library and we go to Myers.

5:00pm Chatime drinks

Day 4 - Dinner at Sit Lo Vietnamese

5:30pm Early dinner at SitLo - Satay Chicken 3 for $12, Nem Nuong (grilled BBQ pork) noodle bowl $14 - MT, Beef Pho $16 - JT, Deluxe (Roast pork, BBQ pork, grilled chicken) noodle bowl $19

Sun 11 Feb 2024: Farmers Market, Glenelg, Adelaide - Day 3

 Day 3 - Sun 11 Feb 2024 - Adelaide Farmers Market and Glenelg.

10:24 - 11am Take tram to Stop 3 Goodwood Rd and walked to Farmers Markets at Adelaide Showground. Walk around and check out stalls. KC buys biscuits, JT buys prawns, I buy pistachio nuts and pretzels.

12:11pm Take tram back to city. Get McDonalds soft serve.

2:00pm Back at hotel having lunch

3:20pm Take Tram to Glenelg

4:00pm Arrive at Gleneg - Take photos of Town Hall and Memorial, Ferris wheel

4:30pm Check out the stalls at the Sunset markets - buy fresh lemonade

More photos

Take a walk down the main street check out the shops

6:30pm Back at the beach. Kaylene and I take a walk on the beach - while the others sit and wait.

7:30pm Still on the beach waiting for the sun to set

7:50pm other have joined us and we take a walk on the pier

8:00pm Sun is finally setting

8:30pm walk back down the street to find a place to eat - Noodle box - no place to sit, so we order takeaway - KC and I wait, while others walk back to square to get a table. Buy fried chicken, dumplings and fried rice.

10:00pm Take photos of ferris wheel. Head back on Tram

Sat 10 Feb 2024: Central Markets, Botanic Gardens, Chinatown, Adelaide - Day 2

 Day 2 - Sat 10 Feb 2024 - Central Market and Chinatown - lion dance

10:45am - On walk - take photo of TAFE. Graffiti/Eliza Street art

11:00am Chinatown - buy Chatime drinks

11:30am Outside chinese supermarket waiting for Lion dance

12:00noon to 12:10pm Lion dance

Walk up street opposite gates to check out chinese supermarket and around the block back to Central Markets. Meet up with Mark

2:06pm Have lunch at foodcourt - share a combination vermicelli salad and ginger & shallot chicken rice with Kaylene.

2:30pm Walk back to Hotel. Pass more street art.

Day 2 - Botanic Gardens

4:16pm Caught the tram from the Adelaide Railway Station stop to the 4:30pm Botanic Gardens Tram stop.

Mark waited just inside the gates, while we walked around the gardens. Palm House, Amazon Waterlily Pavilion, Bicentennial Conservatory, Cascade sculpture, International Rose Garden and National Rose Trial Garden, First Creek Wetland

6:00pm Tram back to Art Gallery - change to Victoria Square

Day 2 - Chinatown dinner & lion dance

7:30pm Chinatown Plaza foodcourt

Fri 9 Feb 2024: Sydney to Adelaide - Day 1

 Friday 9 February 2024

Sydney to Adelaide

Jetstar flight

6:30am Leave home - Nathan drives Mark, Kaylene and I to airport. Janet and Lily takes train to Mascot and bus to airport at 6am

7:30am Sydney Domestic airport. KC checks us in, gets boarding passes and luggage tags. Put luggage through counter checkin. Go through security. Lucky me chosen for drug swab.

8:00am Breakfast - Maccas care of KC. Sausage and egg mcmuffin with hash brown.

9:00am Gate 56

9:30am Boarding

9:40am Taxi to runway

9:50am In the air

10:20am Inflight meal - $10 vouchers - JT and I combine ours to get - Can of OG Pringles, apple juice and home style sandwich.

11:00am Land in Adelaide. Pick up luggage

11:30am Walk to bus stop and wait for bus. Kaylene and I tap our credit cards, JT, MC and LC have cards they ordered online.

11:40am On bus to the city.Get off at stop and walk 1 or 2 blocks to hotel.

12:00noon Checkin at Oaks Hotels & Resorts, 104 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000. Leave luggage in storage. 

1:00pm Walk to Rundle Mall.

Day 1 - Rundle Mall -'A Day Out'The Rundle Mall Pigs, 'Pigeon' by Paul Sloan, The Mall's Balls or 'The Spheres'by Bert Flugelman, Adelaide Arcade, Dali's Triumphant Elephant

Day 1 - Central Market

1:30pm NanYang Cafe, Renaissance Arcade, 26/136 Rundle Mall, Adelaide, SA

Young Coconut Juice $5.50
Teh tarik $5.80
Char Kuay Teow $19
KL Hokkien Mee $19
Char Hor Fun $$19
Roti(1) Chanai Curry Chicken $14
Roti(1) Chanai Beef Rendang $15

2:1pm Central Ward - end of Rundle Mall - East End

3:25pm KC and I checkout the City Library, while the others shop in Woolworths

3:55pm 'Girl on a Slide'by John Dowie

5:30pm Back at Hotel room 

8:00pm Head back out to Central Market - Dragon on pylon

8:30pm Central Market - buy portuguese tarts - 6 for $18, buy raspberries, going off - eat them all. Find Chinatown gates - take photos from across the road.

10:00pm back at hotel room.