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Adelaide and Nearby - South Australia
Grape picking, Adelaide Hills, South Australia © SATC
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Adelaide

Bridge over the Torrens River, Adelaide, South Australia © SATCAdelaide is a clean, charming, modern city ringed by extensive parkland. Even in the city centre you can catch glimpses of the Adelaide Hills, giving it a pleasant country feel, in spite of its one million plus population. After retail shop closing time though, the streets do empty out and become quite deserted.
The Torrens River (pictured) divides the city, where most of the mainstream hotels are to be found, from the lovely old residential area of North Adelaide which offers some exceptionally nice places to stay and to eat. Check out North Adelaide restaurants in O'Connell Street.
In the city centre, Rundle Mall, the main shopping drag, is a pleasant pedestrian precinct with Myer, David Jones and all the usual shops. There are lots of places to eat throughout the city and in particular Gouger Street is renowned for its fish restaurants. Rundle Street also has a choice of restaurants and pubs.
Truly Australia's recommendation: Sprouts Vegetarian Cuisine, 39 Hindmarsh Square just a short distance from Rundle Mall.
Many of the key attractions in south eastern South Australia, including the all the wine areas, can be reached on a day trip from Adelaide, although Kangaroo Island with its uninhibited wildlife is well worth a stay for a day or two. 
Adelaide is a key junction for Australia's two most famous train journeys - the Indian Pacific and The Ghan

McLaren Vale

Autumn vines, McLaren Vale, South Australia © SATCMcLaren Vale is a wine region virtually on the outskirts of Adelaide, just to the south of the city in the Mount Lofty Ranges and famous for its full bodied reds and whites. Both large and small wineries are found here and famous names include Chapel Hill, Seaview, Hardy's Reynella and Wirra Wirra.
There are over 90 cellar doors including the following selection which also have restaurants:
Chapel Hill Winery d'Arenberg Marienberg Wine Company
Maxwell Wines Merrivale Wines Middlebrook Estate
Penny's Hill Wines Woodstock

Langhorne Creek

Bridge Hotel, Langhorne Creek, South Australia © SATCLanghorne Creek is one of the newer, rapidly growing wine areas and is about 70 km south of Adelaide between the Mount Lofty range and Lake Alexandrina and virtually adjoining McLaren Vale.
Wineries include:
Angas Plains Wines Bleasdale Bremerton Wines
Lake Breeze Raydon Estate  

Explore Langhorne Creek on the way to Goolwa at the mouth of the Murray River or as part of a day on the adjoining Fleurieu Peninsula.

Adelaide Hills

Cycling through Hahndorf, Adelaide Hills, South Australia © SATCThe Adelaide Hills, including Mount Lofty, are visible from Adelaide city centre and are only half an hour's drive away. They are a picturesque area of rolling hills with vineyards, farms and market gardens with attractive small towns like Hahndorf (pictured), first settled in 1839.
Other attractive towns include:
Nairne Mt Barker Stirling
Aldgate Bridgewater  

Wineries include:

Nepenthe Ashton Hills Chain of Ponds
Bendbrook Barratt Hillstowe
Hahndorf Hill Mawson Ridge Longview
Malcolm Creek    
The Adelaide Hills area is a popular day trip or evening restaurant excursion from Adelaide, with lots of attractive restaurants and cellar doors. It does also have a wide range of accommodation from international class hotels to self catering cottages, if you are driving and prefer to stay out of the city centre.  

Glenelg
Beach at Glenelg, near Adelaide, South Australia © SATC Glenelg (a palindrome or word that reads the same when spelt backwards) is the best known of Adelaide's sandy beaches and to get there you take the old Glenelg tram, which departs from Victoria Square in the centre of Adelaide and takes about 20 minutes. Jetty Road, the approach to the beach, is lined with small shops including lots of traditional seaside ice cream and fish and chip opportunities. Off season it can seem just a little bit seedy but makes a welcome escape out of the city centre for a swim in the heat of the summer.
 
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