Day 1 – 5 April 2010
Thulani Arrives In Adelaide, Australia
Adelaide is a coastal city, the capital of South Australia, and the fifth-largest city in Australia. It is known as "The City of Churches". Adelaide has a Mediterranean climate where most of the rain falls in the winter months and summers are hot and dry.
The city was founded in 1836, not as a convict settlement, but as the planned capital for a freely settled British province in Australia. Adelaide was designed in a grid layout, interspaced by wide boulevards and large public squares, and entirely surrounded by parkland, making it one of the most planned cities in Australia. For these reasons it is a fabulous place to live, easy to get around, with plenty of scrupulously clean parks and open spaces. It is relatively low rise compared to other cities and reminds us a lot of Pietermaritzburg from an architecture point of view.
On the sporting front, Adelaide hosts the Tour Down Under bicycle race, the largest cycling event outside Europe and the first event outside Europe with UCI ProTour status.
Today, Adelaide is noted for its many festivals - Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Adelaide Film Festival, Adelaide Festival of Ideas, Adelaide Writers' Week and WOMADelaide to name a few - its food, wine and culture, its long beachfronts, and its large defence and manufacturing sectors – we build cars J. It ranks highly in terms of liveability, being listed in the Top 10 of The Economist's World's Most Liveable Cities index in 2010.
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