Adelaide arrival and Glenelg Beach

Photography, Travel, Traveling Australia

Monday morning, we had to get up early to make the flight to Adelaide. The flight was 2 hours, and the time distance was 30 minutes. The scenery from the airplane was fascinating when we got closer to Adelaide. Sometimes it looked like they had made crop circles. We had reserved a car from Hertz for the next three weeks. We were told that they had a high-end Corolla for us 😊I never found out what high-end in this case means. Maybe it had good cruise control, because it was the only thing I thought was above normal. And the rent-a-car places never disappoint. You always go the counter expecting you have paid all expenses beforehand, but NO! This time they blamed a third party, Finnair, that we hadn’t paid the return fee. Return fee was returning the car with New South Wales plates to Sydney in NSW. What can you do. We had to pay 250 euros extra.


First few kilometers were exciting hence, to driving on the wrong side of the road but I got into the groove fast. It is much easier driving nowadays because of the navigation systems. You can mostly concentrate on driving and not reading a map.

Boutique Hotel Adabco close to the center of the city proved to really nice and the room was really large. Only negative thing was that there is no free parking. You had to park on the street for maximum of two hours between hours of 8 am to 6 pm. Naturally I ended up with a parking ticket for 66 AUD. Breakfast was included but not on the premises but in Greek café Diaspora. We had walk for about 400 meters but the choices for breakfast were good.

We spent the afternoon and the sunset at Glenelg Beach. We got there around 4 pm and found deckchairs for us at the Moseley Beach Club. Luckily it was off-season so were able to keep the chairs until past sunset at 8 pm. Of course, we bought lunch and couple cool drinks to justify our stay. Temperature was close to 40 degrees Celsius so it was also good to have umbrellas to cover us. Later during the day bar had a skilled guitar player/singer. He played suitable mellow songs for us: Bob Marley, the Eagles, CCR, etc.

A funny Welsh guy came to talk to us few times. He was getting more drunk and louder each time but he was a lot of fun. I sure he had a rough morning because they had on early flight waiting for them. His son was getting married in Sydney in few days and a group of 19 people from the same Welsh village had been travelling for few days before the wedding. The rest of the group is going to be pleasantly surprised at the wedding because a guy from the village, who emigrated to Australia 30 years ago, is going to show up.

Sunset was beautiful and the lighted Glenelg ferris wheel was great too. Check out the pics!

Lovely sunset

23 thoughts on “Adelaide arrival and Glenelg Beach”

  6. Once again Mara’s narration bring life to your beautiful photographs. The pictures of the pier and clock tower bring back lovely memories of my last visit to Glenelg. The Ferris Wheel is a new addition since then.

  7. Sounds like you were well for that part of the tour downunder.
    Glenelg never disappoints at sunset. When my mate and I do a road trip, we always make sure we can park at where we stay especially in the city.
    I don’t understand how the rental company in Adelaide gave you a car with NSW plates and expected you to pay the return? That would have been the responsibility of the previous hirer who took the car to Adelaide 🤔

    1. This was great way to spend a day when you are still little bit under weather, sitting on a beach under the shade and watching people. One of the most relaxing afternoons of our trip. Car rental, always something extra, what can you do but pay

  8. Wow, what a sunset! I know what you mean about car hire companies, it always ends up costing more than you were anticipating 😕

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